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Thursday, December 16, 2010

I’m English, so I don’t know all the finer details. There are six of them, and I want to say 4 (?) Mac labs that roll from room to room that they share. The kids have access to an electronic form of the textbook—either at school or home—and they do have classroom sets. I don’t know how much those are used. I know they write a lot of their own curriculum, and I’m not sure what framework/guidelines/standards they use. The short version I got was “the state realized social studies textbooks were awful and gave us the go ahead to go bookless if we qualified for this grant.” In Indiana, all courses required for graduation have to have a state-approved textbook—oh, and in Indiana, kids pay rental fees. (I’m THAT teacher who uses her book twice, and then the kids never see it again. Speech textbooks for high school SUCK.) Anyway, if you’d like the department chair’s name/e-mail I can give it to you. They’ve made presentations at tech conferences in Indiana and Colorado on this, so I’m certain he won’t have a problem talking to you.

I’m English, so I don’t know all the finer details. There are six of them, and I want to say 4 (?) Mac labs that roll from room to room that they share. The kids have access to an electronic form of the textbook—either at school or home—and they do have classroom sets. I don’t know how much those are used. I know they write a lot of their own curriculum, and I’m not sure what framework/guidelines/standards they use. The short version I got was “the state realized social studies textbooks