Board Endorses Recommendation, 8-0

At last night’s Board meeting the directors heard the report of the Math Pilot team, including its recommendation that the District move to adopt Math Expressions as its core K-5 math resource.  The Board members expressed their appreciation for the thoroughness of the process and the report, and Jim Leous recounted his positive experience as a parent whose child was in an Expressions pilot classroom, saying that he found the Expressions exercises to be more rigorous than those found in Investigations.

In the public comment period, three people spoke against the recommendation.  They did not ask the Board to keep Investigations in place, but rather to restart the selection process and take another year to pilot different programs.  One of the speakers characterized Expressions (and Investigations) as “adequate” but not the “excellent” program the District needs.

The Board then voted on whether to endorse the report and recommendation, and this passed by an 8-0 vote.  Math Expressions materials will be available for public viewing before the Board approves purchase of the program at its next meeting on June 13.   Implementation and training plans are in the works and will be presented at the same meeting.