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Curriculum Welcome to our world of curriculum, a realm of new and exciting experiences that await the students of the Berwick Area School District at each level. Our staff views curriculum as a process of change rather than a project therefore we are continually evaluating our program. We have specifically taken on the task of rewriting core content curriculum to the Pennsylvania state standards over the last couple of years and believe that learning needs to be dynamic, that classrooms need to become laboratories, incubators, and places where students literally experience learning. In the process of writing, committees are formed to represent each of the five elementary buildings with members from each grade level, middle and high school representation coupled with as many administrators as possible. Usually the committee meets as a large group to begin the research phase, exploration of new and improved practices, and often makes visits to schools where programs have been identified as being top notch. This year our district will be using a web-based program called Tech Paths which is a curriculum mapping program based on the work of Heidi Hayes Jacobs. This program, which is furnished to us by a company called AlterNet Solutions, also houses our student data base of assessment information referred to as Performance Tracker. We are very excited to launch this new software and will report progress periodically. Over the next year we will share our curriculum archives with you proudly. We will provide a curriculum overview that links actual courses of study for each subject area, at each grade level as they become available. If you have any questions, please send them to hmorrison@berwicksd.org. We would be happy to discuss or explain our curriculum, which is the essence of learning in the Berwick Area School District educational system. |