Last night, a small group of Woolwich parents attended an RSU#1 School Board Meeting to learn more about all this "Proficiency Based Diploma" , LD 1422 (the law)  "Common Core" standards and what it means to their children.  Great Schools Partnership was hired for around $19,000 to help guide Morse HS through the process. 

 

This blog post could be pages long summarizing the information shared - in short, it is imperative that we, as parents, grandparents, friends or guardians of Wildcats students do a little homework and understand what the change means.

The RSU#1 Board does seem committed to ensuring public input and community involvement.  Let's show them our interest by responding to these efforts when they become available.

Even though this is at the HS level (the diploma) the Common Core standards (Math and ELA) are already part of the K-5 Curriculum.  You may already have noticed shifts in homework or assessing that you want to know more about.

This is a recent letter from our RSU#1 Assistant Superintendent, Judy Harvey.  http://p2cdn1static.sharpschool.com/UserFiles/Servers/Server_1093620/File/PBECommunityLetter.pdf

Please see references listed at the bottom of the letter; This is a great place to start for information on PBE, Common Core etc., but explore on your own as well!  Future blogs will provide updates to the process.