BETHEL – SAD 44 directors Monday OK’d a proposal to apply for a $150,000 three-year grant to reform Telstar Middle School curriculum.
Middle School Principal Russ Tornrose conducted a presentation on the Maine comprehensive school reform program implementation grant, saying it addresses “our needs for student achievement and engagement, curriculum effectiveness and instructional improvement.”
“We believe that these improvements will be lasting ones, because our approach is transformational: changing foundational beliefs, as well as practices about learning,” Tornrose said.
Components of the grant, which would provide the district with $50,000 a year for three years, include student learning, curriculum redesign and teacher learning.
“It makes sense to apply for this grant,” Superintendent David Murphy said Tuesday afternoon.
He called it the “natural next step” in the process of providing an education for every student.
Murphy said the district should know by midsummer whether it gets the grant.
“Even if we don’t get this, we’re headed in the right direction,” Murphy said, reiterating what Tornrose told directors Monday night.
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