The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has revised the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks for English Language Arts/Literacy and Mathematics.
The revised drafts for the Curriculum Framework for English Language Arts and Literacy and the Curriculum Framework for Mathematics can be found at:
http://www.doe.mass.edu/boe/docs/fy2017/2016-11/item1.html
Scroll down for an important opportinity to give feedback directly to DESE on how major changes to course frameworks, grade level standards and instruction guidance will impact your classroom!
What are curriculum frameworks?
Curriculum frameworks outline the knowledge, skills and abilities that students are expected to master at each grade level. Educators use the curriculum frameworks as basis for planning which books to reach, which topics to teach and which assessments students should pass each at each grade level.
See something? Say something! An online survey is open until February 17, 2017:
http://sgiz.mobi/s3/Public-Comment-Draft-ELA-Literacy-Math-Frameworks-2016-2017
- The same link will bring you to the survey questions for either the English Language Arts and Literacy frameworks and the Mathematics framsworks.
- The survey will ask you to select one or more grade levels to focus on or comment on the Framework as a whole document.
- Links to the proposed changes are embedded withing the survey and there are opportunities provide written comments on each standard.
Speak up!!
If written comments aren’t your thing, you can join DESE staff for Office Hours: Proposed Changes to the ELA and Math Standards.
Register online for one or more of the following dates:
Date: 12/09/16
Time: 8:30am – 10:30am
Host: Northeast Consortium for Staff Development (NCSD)
Location: Masconomet Regional Middle School, 20 Endicott Road, Boxford, MA 01921
Date: 12/09/16
Time: 1:00pm – 2:30pm
Host: Merrimack Valley Curriculum Leaders
Location: Valley Collaborative, 40 Linnell Circle, Billerica, MA 01821
Date: 1/09/17
Time: 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Host: Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts/Berkshire Community College
Location: Berkshire Community College, Hawthorne, Room 207, 1350 West St, Pittsfield, MA 01201
Date: 1/10/17
Time: 10:00am – 12:00pm
Host: Lower Pioneer Valley Educational Collaborative (LPVEC)
Location: LPVEC, 174 Brush Hill Avenue, West Springfield, MA 01089
Date: 1/11/17
Time: 9:00am – 11:00am
Host: Assabet Valley Collaborative (AVC)
Location: AVC, 28 Lord Road; Suite 130, Marlborough, MA 01752
Date: 01/12/17
Time: 10:00am – 12:00pm
Host: Cape Cod Collaborative
Location: Cape Cod Collaborative, 418 Bumps River Rd, Osterville, MA 02655
Date: 01/30/17
Time: 9:00am – 11:00am
Host: Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (ESE)
Location: ESE, 75 Pleasant Street, Malden, Ma 02148
Date: 2/6/17
Time: 12:00pm – 1:30pm
Host: North River Collaborative (NRC)
Location: North River Conference Center, 525 Beech Street, Rockland, MA 02370