Category: Teaching in Mississippi

What were we most excited to share with Mississippi teachers when we first launched the site? The math materials! The Mississippi Department of Education, Mississippi school districts, and Mississippi teachers spent a lot of time and energy adopting a high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) math rubric and then reviewing K-8 math materials to ensure their quality!…

The answer is it depends. One of the defining features of our current educational system is that districts have local control. Part of this local control is the ability to select and adopt curriculum, provided that the choices meet state standards. The Mississippi Department of Education does not mandate the materials a school uses to…