programs, like Kahn Academy, MAP Accelerator, or IXL in order to offer enrichment for some students, or to shore up skills Math Program Strengths and Accomplishments: ▪ The math curriculumhas been fully revised following a 2014 review of the program, a review that included a comprehensive Parent Survey of the academic program; the math program has been continuously revised and strengthened since then. ▪ Levine Academy math teachers and academic leaders have engaged in “curricular calibration” in recent years, whereby our math teachers have arranged to meet with the full math departments at both St. Mark’s and Greenhill, in order to share curricular resources, benchmarks at each grade level from middle school through 9 th and 10 th grades, and to discuss/compare coverage of Common Core math concepts. ▪ Levine has invested significantly in supplying all math teachers, K thru 8 th Grade, with curricular enrichment materials that will help teachers differentiate in such a way as to accommodate the needs of the highly capable students. ▪ In 2019, Levine decided to invest significantly in the physical transformation of our 5 th /6 th grade math classroom, contracting with NorvaNivel, a modernist/environmentalist educational furniture company that specializes in multi-colored, flexible seating, multiple-height surfaces to enhance student focus and attention and vibrancy in their math classroom experience. ▪ Levine also invested in the new MAP Accelerator program in order to assess, three times per year, our math progress in Grades 3 thru 6, and provide students with an online instructional programwith lesson videos and targeted problems tailored to each individual student by way of their most recent MAP test score in math. ▪ Our learning support program has been enhanced significantly in the past five years, allowing us to zero in on students who need extra help and individualized attention in their math studies. Math Program Challenges: ▪ The instructional approaches in math could be improved by way of incorporating more creative approaches to math learning as well as more investigative approaches, in order to enhance our mission goal of creativity and critical thinking. In addition, instructional approaches that are more effective in classroom management practices would be beneficial and will helps to promote greater student focus during math class. ▪ Not all teachers employ the “workshop model” in the classroom, which is designed to address different competency levels within the same math classroom period. This makes it difficult for some teachers to address the needs of the range of students in their classroom, and students themselves experience a range of instructional capacities as they move up through the grades from Lower School to Middle School classes.
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