Wong asks lessons learned from personal finance for climate education rollout
Wong asks what lessons from personal finance apply to climate education. Veve says DOE learned from NYC Reads and Solves that central clarity and guidance plus local flexibility are critical, and that consistency in materials and collaboration matter.
The follow-up, any lessons learned from the personal finance rollout and how would that apply here for the climate education?
So I think that we can't learn fully from personal finance rollout, right?
We just started.
But I do think what we have learned from our large-scale implementation of New York City Reads and New York City Solves is we need clarity and guidance from central.
And then we also need to create the guidance and guardrails for local decisions to be made, whether those decisions are made at the district level or those are made at the school level, and then in some instances also at the classroom level.
And so clarity and guidance from central is really important.
making sure that we have the materials that are useful, we have the models that we are putting forward, and then we provide the space for people to iterate.
And I just want to say one more thing.
We've spoken about consistency.
I think, Chair Denowitz, that's what you've really been hammering on.
Consistency is about the materials, but it's also about the ways in which we work together.
And so we're really thinking about what is the role that Central plays in collaborating with districts to make sure they have the guidance, and then what happens at the district level to make sure that the district is creating the space for schools to work together so that they are learning.
They're using shared materials, and they're able to take what works in one school and transfer and translate it to another school.
Okay.
Thank you.
Thank you, Chair.
No, I have no more.