“Curriculum” Articles

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Two members of Ascend curriculum team recognized by national science and math teacher organizations

by Elizabeth (Betsey) Hun Schmidt

In a powerful and committed shift in our curricular model, Ascend has, over the past two years, built a 13-person curriculum team of experienced subject matter experts who create the...

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Inside the Ascend Humanities Program with Betsey Schmidt, Chief Curriculum and Innovation Officer

by Elizabeth (Betsey) Hun Schmidt

Why did Ascend create the Humanities Program? We created the Humanities Program because we wanted our students to experience a more rigorous, interdisciplinary engagement with literature and the arts—and because we...

Curriculum

Ascend cited in two national publications for integrating the arts in its Common Core-aligned education

by Kay Moffett

In “Prioritizing the Arts Over Test Prep” in The Atlantic and in “Do the arts go hand in hand with Common Core?” in The Hechinger Report, writer Sara Neufeld explores Ascend’s...

Curriculum

Building Schools of Thought

by Steven F. Wilson

On the day before the recent state math exams, I slipped into fourth-grade classes with some visitors at Brownsville Ascend Lower School. Our visitors might have expected to see teachers...

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