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Audit of Curriculum
Learning Point Associates Team Leader Frank DeRosa (left) discusses the plan for the Newburgh School District's "Audit of Curriculum" with the district's Assistant to the Superintendent Dr. Barry Weiss during the recent "kickoff" meeting in the Board of Education Auditorium. The "Audit of Curriculum" will result in a three-year plan to improve student learning that will be implemented in all the district's schools.
Press Release
The Newburgh Enlarged City School District announced recently that it has begun work on an “Audit of Curriculum” sponsored and paid for by the New York State Education Department. The “Audit of Curriculum,” which will take most of this school year to complete, will result in a three-year plan that is aimed at continuing the district’s ongoing efforts to improve student learning in the areas of English Language Arts for English Language Learners and Special Education English Language Arts.
The district’s “Audit of Curriculum” is being guided by a nationally-recognized company called Learning Point Associates (LPA), a non-profit organization dedicated to helping educators and policy makers improve student learning by equipping them with knowledge and strategies that meet their needs and produce results. The “Audit of Curriculum” team also includes, for the English Language Learners audit components, representatives from the Education Alliance at Brown University, an organization established in 1975 to assist second-language educators, and for the Special Education audit components, representatives from the American Institutes for Research, an institution founded in 1946 that manages multiple technical assistance and dissemination centers for the Office of Special Education Programs.
“The district is currently involved in the second of four phases of the Audit of Curriculum,” said Dr. Barry Weiss, a retired district administrator recently-appointed as Assistant to the Superintendent for the Audit of Curriculum. “During the first phase we conducted a kickoff audit orientation meeting and Learning Point Associates selected its sample schools. From those sample schools LPA, in the second phase, is collecting data that represents aspects of the district’s curriculum that will be studied and interpreted during the final two phases of the audit. The data is being collected through a series of classroom observations, interviews with teachers, an online teacher survey, and two parent focus groups,” said Dr. Weiss.
The sample schools from which the data is being collected include Fostertown ETC Magnet School, GAMS Tech Magnet School, Meadow Hill Global Explorations Magnet School, Temple Hill Academy, Vails Gate High Tech Magnet School, Heritage Junior High School, South Junior High School, and Newburgh Free Academy. The three-year plan that results from the “Audit of Curriculum” will be implemented in all of the schools in the district.
“It’s obvious to me that, from everything I’ve seen in the Newburgh Enlarged City School District, you’re already well on your way to building a better school district,” said LPA Team Leader Frank DeRosa. “The Audit of Curriculum will help you to get there faster.”
Press Release
The Newburgh Enlarged City School District announced recently that it has begun work on an “Audit of Curriculum” sponsored and paid for by the New York State Education Department. The “Audit of Curriculum,” which will take most of this school year to complete, will result in a three-year plan that is aimed at continuing the district’s ongoing efforts to improve student learning in the areas of English Language Arts for English Language Learners and Special Education English Language Arts.
The district’s “Audit of Curriculum” is being guided by a nationally-recognized company called Learning Point Associates (LPA), a non-profit organization dedicated to helping educators and policy makers improve student learning by equipping them with knowledge and strategies that meet their needs and produce results. The “Audit of Curriculum” team also includes, for the English Language Learners audit components, representatives from the Education Alliance at Brown University, an organization established in 1975 to assist second-language educators, and for the Special Education audit components, representatives from the American Institutes for Research, an institution founded in 1946 that manages multiple technical assistance and dissemination centers for the Office of Special Education Programs.
“The district is currently involved in the second of four phases of the Audit of Curriculum,” said Dr. Barry Weiss, a retired district administrator recently-appointed as Assistant to the Superintendent for the Audit of Curriculum. “During the first phase we conducted a kickoff audit orientation meeting and Learning Point Associates selected its sample schools. From those sample schools LPA, in the second phase, is collecting data that represents aspects of the district’s curriculum that will be studied and interpreted during the final two phases of the audit. The data is being collected through a series of classroom observations, interviews with teachers, an online teacher survey, and two parent focus groups,” said Dr. Weiss.
The sample schools from which the data is being collected include Fostertown ETC Magnet School, GAMS Tech Magnet School, Meadow Hill Global Explorations Magnet School, Temple Hill Academy, Vails Gate High Tech Magnet School, Heritage Junior High School, South Junior High School, and Newburgh Free Academy. The three-year plan that results from the “Audit of Curriculum” will be implemented in all of the schools in the district.
“It’s obvious to me that, from everything I’ve seen in the Newburgh Enlarged City School District, you’re already well on your way to building a better school district,” said LPA Team Leader Frank DeRosa. “The Audit of Curriculum will help you to get there faster.”
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