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Teachers Test Next Year’s Curriculum

By Caleb Fort

Posted: May 28, 2011 at 6:01 a.m.

David Frank Dempsey
 Miranda Kincade as Cinderella, right, gets the magic wand tap from Fairy Godmother India Pickens in a Cinderella-themed Common Core curriculum first-grade class at Grace F. Hill Elementary School in Rogers.

Kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers got a sneak preview this month of a curriculum to be introduced next year to meet new state standards. “I think if you just jump in, you realize ‘Yeah, I can do this,’ and you’re not scared of it,” said Nancy Milam, a first-grade teacher at Bonnie Grimes Elementary School.

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