The Wauwatosa School District adheres to a seven-year curriculum review cycle. This cycle ensures that each curricular area is assessed and, if needed, updated at least once every seven years. The goal of the review cycle is to ensure there is a clear and strategic plan for all content areas to be reviewed, implemented, and/or monitored every year. Each phase of the review cycle is aligned to policy 2210 which governs the curriculum review process. 

PE Auditor: Dr. Brock McMullen 

Dr. Brock McMullen is an associate professor in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science at UW-La Crosse. He currently directs the undergraduate Physical, Adapted, and School Health Education program, the Graduate Adapted Physical Education Program, and the Center on Disability Health and Adapted Physical Activity which offers various physical activity opportunities to those with disabilities in the greater La Crosse community.

He has presented over 25 times at state and national health and physical education conferences. He has published, as well as served as an invited reviewer for multiple scholarly journals on topics related to best practices in adapted and general physical education. He was a contributor to the most recent edition of the Wisconsin Standards for Physical Education. Additionally, Dr. McMullen works with area schools to improve adapted physical education services; this is partially done through a $1.25M grant he received from the US Department of Education to train adapted physical educators. Before his time at UW-La Crosse, he was a K-12 adapted physical education teacher and an elementary general physical education teacher in the Salt Lake City, UT area. Dr. McMullen holds doctoral and master’s degrees in General Physical and Adapted Physical Education from the University of Utah.

March 2025 Elementary Math Curriculum Review Update

Math Auditors: Steve Leinwand and Astrid Fossum

Mr. Steve Leinwand is an author and principal research analyst at AIR, the American Institutes for Research in Arlington, VA, and has over 40 years of leadership positions in mathematics education. He currently serves as mathematics expert on a wide range of AIR projects that focus on high-quality mathematics instruction, turning around underperforming schools, improving adult education, evaluating programs, developing assessments, and providing technical assistance for school improvement. 

Before joining AIR in 2002, Mr. Leinwand spent 22 years as a Mathematics Consultant with the Connecticut Department of Education where he was responsible for the development and oversight of a broad statewide program of activities in K-12 mathematics education including the provision of technical assistance and professional development, the evaluation of Title 1 and K-12 mathematics programs, the assessment of student achievement and teacher competency, and the coordination of statewide mathematics programs and activities. Mr. Leinwand has also served on the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Board of Directors and has been President of the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics.

Mr. Leinwand was the awardee of the 2015 National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics Glenn Gilbert/Ross Taylor National Leadership Award for outstanding contributions to mathematics education and has been awarded the 2021 NCTM Lifetime Achievement Award.

Ms. Astrid Fossum has been a designer at Student Achievement Partners (SAP) since 2015. She works alongside colleagues and educators focusing on students seeing themselves as capable and fantastic learners and doers of mathematics, while also leading educators to implement rigorous mathematic standards for all.  

Before joining Student Achievement Partners, Astrid spent 18 years in mathematics teaching, instructional coaching, and administration. She taught pre-service and in-service teachers and administrations at the college level, served on the Board of the Wisconsin Mathematics Council, and currently serves as a Regional Director on the Board of National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics. She has a BA in Art History from St. Olaf College, teaching certification coursework from the University of St. Thomas, and a master's in curriculum and instruction from Viterbo University.

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