Welcome to Duplin County Schools' Elementary Wiki Page!  

Notes from Director:

Welcome to the 2009 – 2010 school year and thank you for visiting our Elementary Education Wiki page.  You now have the opportunity to collaborate with teachers across the county within your grade level sharing lesson plan information and documents to further enhance student education.  Please take advantage of this opportunity to share the wealth of knowledge that our county has to offer.  This school year brings several new aspects to Duplin County Schools’ Elementary Education program.  We are implementing a new K-2 literacy assessment which  further enhances the previous model.  All K-2 teachers are being provided with necessary materials and training to effectively assess our students and make good use of data provided by the assessments. 

This school year we also introduced a new math adoption to the K-5 curriculum.  Envision Math is a program which incorporates technology and hands on instructional strategies to contribute to student success.  Representatives from each school were trained on the use of this textbook and returned to their respective schools to train their grade level on its use.  

On June 15, 16, and 17, representatives from each elementary school formed teams which worked to complete our curriculum guides for the 2009 – 2010 school year.  A document was produced which provided K-5 consistency in the form of task analysis, vocabulary, materials and resources, essential questions, and assessment.  Please feel free to use this document for planning and other instructional uses.  This guide can be found on our Duplin County Schools curriculum page. 

We will continue with the use of Study Island to provide our benchmark assessments in grades 2-5.  This year, however, we have purchased a K-1 component as well which will allow us more use with this program.

Shawn Johnson

Director of Elementary Education

Please review the rules and expectations folder in the right pane.