By: Elizabeth Kelsey, Kendall Hunt RPD Intern, with contributions from the writing team of Pathways 2.0
With a fresh year before us, the Kendall Hunt PreK–12 Religious Publishing Department (RPD) took a moment to look back at the one we’re leaving behind! In 2019, we were proud to launch and implement Pathways2.0, a major revision to a customized reading and language arts program for grades 1–8 that was developed in collaboration with the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) North American Division (NAD) Office of Education. Here are the highlights of the year in review as we look forward to a new year and a new decade!
Pathways2.0
Beginning in 2007, the Kendall Hunt RPD launched one of the first customized product lines for our SDA publishing partners: the first edition of our Pathways Reading and Language Arts program. For over ten years, Pathways provided rich, faith-based language arts resources for traditional and nontraditional classrooms. The SDA Reading Steering Committee and the RPD development team knew an update to the custom curriculum was needed to bring students and teachers exciting new Anchor Texts and all-new Daily Lesson Guides, as well as rewritten teacher and student components such as the new Writer’s Handbooks and Teacher Manual.
After more than two years of hard work and collaboration between the Kendall Hunt RPD and the NAD, the major revision of Pathways2.0 was officially rolled out and implemented in classrooms in fall 2019!
Here are just a few of the exciting updates for the fall 2019 implementation of Pathways2.0:
Just a few months after the official launch of Pathways2.0, the program is being used in hundreds of classrooms, where students and teachers are experiencing firsthand the positive effects of a custom, theme-based reading and language arts program that enriches their reading skills through the lens of their faith. Thanks to all of the SDA writers, contributors, editors, reviewers, and the development team that helped make 2019 a successful year with the launch of Pathways2.0. Here’s to another banner year in 2020!