This article is in keeping with KPRC 2′s “Focus on Fleming” initiative, which is a year of chronicling transition at Fleming Middle School, one of 28 Houston ISD schools labeled as a high-priority campus.
– Lyndsy Mason talks about math the way some people talk about music. “I love math because it’s a language,” she says.
Mason is not just your regular sixth-grade teacher. Recently, she took up a new role as a teacher expert, a position created by“I have a new position, whereas a teacher, I go to the district offices, and I help vet the curriculum that they actually put out for sixth-grade math. So, I actually work directly with the sixth-grade curriculum writers,” Mason said.One of the biggest issues throughout the district has been the curriculum.
RELATED: HISD superintendent says he will pay ‘teacher experts’ to review curriculum after inappropriate lesson appears online “It’s not the curriculum department’s responsibility to implement the model, they’re just giving us what to teach. It’s the teacher’s responsibility to really take that, internalize it, and figure out what they should keep or shouldn’t keep so that they can implement the NES model as expected,”To help teachers and students adjust to the new lesson plan, Adams said what Mason is doing with the curriculum writers is helping them understand how teachers and students perceive the information best.
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