After a year of planning and preparing, the Manitowoc Public School District has implemented a new curriculum.
Superintendent Jim Feil tells Seehafer News that the reading program known as Success For All has a great track record elsewhere and he expects it to help improve the overall education in the MPSD.
“We anticipate that we are going to have consistency across all of our schools, but its all of our elementary schools and our two middle schools, so it is a major focus point, it’s a major priority this year,” he explained. “We sent 30 people out for leadership, training in Baltimore, and again this curriculum was developed out of John Hopkins University.”
Although there was prep throughout the Summer, as the school year came closer, so did the need to further prep staff.
Feil told us, “We had a week before school started where teachers were trained and administrators were again trained and so far, it’s really good, but it’s a lot.”
Superintendent Fiel finally feels as though teachers who go above and beyond finally have a curriculum that fits.
“I’ve always said that we’ve got the best students in the state,” he reiterated, “We just haven’t equipped them with what they needed, the tools and stuff like this, and now we have the curriculum and the tools for them to really succeed.”
