The board unanimously voted to renew Everyday Math for grades K-6.
The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Board of Education unanimously approved renewing the Everyday Math curriculum at the Feb. 21 meeting. Prior to Thursday's meeting the board discussed renewing the program at previous meetings and also following a presentation by the Mathematics Supervisor at the Feb. 14 meeting. At the Feb. 14 meeting, Mathematics Supervisor John Veninger made a presentation on the successes of the Everyday Math program and encouraged the board to renew the program to the 2012 version. Many of the board members found Veninger’s presentation informative and helpful and they seemed to agree that renewing the program would be in the best interest of the children. Veninger informed the board that last year’s goal of the mathematics …
Parents share their concerns at the board's final meeting of the 2010-2011 school year.
Class sizes in Evergreen Elementary School's third grade will rise slightly for the 2011-2012 school year, members of the Scotch Plains-Fanwood Board of Education said at their monthly regular meeting Thursday, June 23, the last meeting of the 2010-2011 school year. Come September, there will be four third-grade sections instead of five, Superintendent Margaret Hayes said, resulting in an increase of two to three students per classroom. The change stemmed from shifting enrollment numbers, Hayes said. Although overall staffing levels remained consistent across the district between the 2010-2011 and 2010-2011 school years, the number of students at Evergreen Elementary School decreased, forcing the district to make adjustments. “Staffing is …
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Michael Lewis
10:52 am on Monday, February 25, 2013
Be assured I am not fighting yesterday's war but did want to take a moment to reply. In Parochial School (moons ago!) I know this was done for reading but for the life of me I cannot recall if it was done in Math. Without implying any criticism whatsoever, it should be noted (and it did come up both in the Board discussion AND in some of the material I read online) that elementary school teachers… more ›