Battle Ground swaps in tons of new learning materials for new school year

Battle Ground — It was a busy summer for warehouse employees in Battle Ground Public Schools. The warehouse employees spent a bulk of their summer processing and distributing new course materials across all grade levels. Last spring, Battle Ground adopted new math curriculum materials districtwide for grades K-8, meaning nearly 9,000 students are using new math books this year. Over the summer, warehouse workers received, barcoded, and delivered textbooks for 281 math classes in grades K-5, as well as 94 math classes in grades 6-8. The district also adopted new textbooks and reading materials for high school health, eighth-grade Washington state history and high school English language arts. The warehouse processed roughly 3,200 new novels and distributed them to high school English classrooms for this year. To make room for all the new materials, the staff picked up and removed approximately 25 tons — more than 1,000 boxes averaging 50 pounds each — of outdated curricula and library books from Battle Ground schools. “The last year has been the hardest but most gratifying in my 14 years of working at Battle Ground Public Schools,” Carri Kockritz, secretary for instructional materials and circulation, said in a release from the district. “I’m proud of how much our curriculum adoption teams have been able to accomplish this year, as it’s ultimately our students and teachers who benefit.”