Some might have noticed that Harding High School will be getting its English curriculum turned upside down, shaken about, and handed right back to us. The state of Ohio is requiring schools to have a state board approved curriculum, and out of the choices was My Perspectives, by Savvas Learning Company. This was the one that Hardings English board had gone with. “... it was the one we liked the most as an option.” said Ms. White, English department lead.
Since this is a requirement from the state of Ohio, Harding won’t be the only school using My Perspectives. Mansfield City, Kenton, Cleveland Public, and other schools will also be in the same situation as Harding. The real question is, what is My Perspectives?
My Perspectives is one of the four English curricula that our board was given to pick from, and they chose it because it seemed the most promising. “It's like providing resources to us that we don’t have to seek out digitally somewhere else” said Ms. White. She further elaborated on this, saying “It’s also a better way for us to actually track mastery and success of students on skills and standards cause it has progress tracking.” This curriculum also presents new learning opportunities, which Ms. White mentions by stating that “it’s really good for english language learners, cause the online version of it you can just choose from over hundreds of different languages.”
The online version part of it was “particularly intriguing” said Ms. White “because it integrates with Canvas… it seemingly integrates with Schology too.” One of the other many benefits of this online perspective is that teachers can pick how much or little of the resources to use, still allowing teachers to get creative with lesson plans. “...kinda like a playlist style of curriculum where you can take a whole unit if you want to or you can take some supplements of it.”
The release of this curriculum will be gradual, “it’s not gonna be a complete 180” Says Ms. White. “There's gonna be a lot of teachers needing to learn the new curriculum and figure out how they want to integrate things.” This curriculum will also be in effect for five years, costing an estimated amount of three hundred thousand dollars.
However, the real question is if this curriculum will work or not? Ms. White addresses this, saying “you could ask that question about any classroom with any curriculum, if a student doesn’t try then will any curriculum work?”
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