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Curriculum News from Marilyn Woodside
In his book, The Present, Spencer Johnson suggests that we should always live in the present but consistently plan for the future. Ours is a strong school district, and you can be most proud of the work being done by the staff and the efforts being made by the students. While such outside forces as legislation and mandated evaluations require our attention and consideration, our primary interest will always be to provide what our children need in order to set their dreams and realize their aspirations.
While looking forward, we are also mindful of and planning for present needs. Not that long ago, instructional content and practices were left to individual schools and classrooms to decide. Even within schools two teachers at an identical grade level may have been teaching dissimilar content. In Kittery, we are making strides to minimize discrepancy between classrooms and schools by developing a K-12 curriculum in all content areas as the curriculum directs and guides our culture of expectations.
School systems are viewed as either successful or unsuccessful because the community makes them so. The children who attend, the parents who raise and send the children, the teachers who provide the instruction, the school district that provides the resources, administrators who provide structure and consistency, and a business community that participates in the enterprise of education all help to create our schools. Absent good people, our schools will be unsuccessful; with good people, the schools will be successful. This community has good people, and we are all better for it. Now we need to be sure that we continue to develop and sustain what we have started, and, at the same time, look ahead.
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