Video: CMSD Looks at McGraw-Hill Curriculum

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COLUMBUS, Miss. (WCBI) — The Columbus Municipal School District is looking to individualize student’s education needs.

School leaders are mulling supplementing the school district with the McGraw-Hill curriculum.

Columbus Superintendent Philip Hickman said the new research-based curriculum would help accommodate individual student needs.

A majority of the students in the district, he said, are “multiple grade levels” below where they should be according to Common Core Standards.

The customizable curriculum would take into account all learning speeds.

“And so, it disaggregates the students, and customizes it to where it’s able to move those who need acceleration to accelerate, those in the middle, to move them up to a high performance, and those below, still move them up towards middle and hopefully high performance, as well,” Hickman said.

The school board will reconvene this Friday to further discuss the new curriculum, which Hickman said could be in place by early September if implementation is approved.

Hickman said implementing the McGraw-Hill curriculum would cost the district about $610,000 to purchase, among other things, new textbooks, workbooks, computer software and teacher coaching.