This blog series shares the curriculum implementation journeys of districts across the country, through interviews with each of our squad members. In your district, what problem or data prompted you to adopt a new literacy curriculum? How did you hope the curriculum you chose would help you address it? For some years, our district has […]
This blog series shares the curriculum implementation journeys of districts across the country, through interviews with each of our squad members. In your district, what problem or data prompted you to adopt a new literacy curriculum? How did you hope the curriculum you chose would help you address it? First we knew it was time. […]
This blog series shares the curriculum implementation journeys of districts across the country, through interviews with each of our squad members. In your district, what problem or data prompted you to adopt new curricula? How did you hope the curriculum you chose would help you address it? If you look back to 2015, our students […]
This blog series shares the curriculum implementation journeys of districts across the country, through interviews with each of our squad members. In your district, what problem or data prompted you to adopt new curricula? How did you hope the curricula you chose would help you address it? The data showed that our students were last […]
This blog series shares the curriculum implementation journeys of districts across the country, through interviews with each of our squad members. In your district, what problem or data prompted you to adopt new literacy curricula? How did you hope the curricula you chose would help you address it? Our District Performance Scores had not grown […]
This is the first blog in a new series in which we share the curriculum journey for each of our Squad Members. Q: In your district, what problem or data prompted you to adopt a new literacy curriculum? How did you hope the curriculum you chose would help you address it? Our state testing data […]
My journey to understanding the research on how kids learn to read was decades longer than it should have been. I started my career in the classroom, as a special education teacher. I hadn’t learned the essentials during my teacher preparation. Then, even though I worked with children with disabilities, I didn’t learn what I […]
As high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) become increasingly prevalent in K-12 classrooms, the instructional landscape is undergoing significant change. We need teacher preparation programs to keep pace with this evolution. Historically, teacher preparation programs have treated individual lesson plan creation as THE essential teaching skill. Teacher candidates are graded on their ability to create a lesson […]
As we look back on 2020, it’s hard to deny the chaos and uncertainty around our work that this global pandemic has foisted on educators. Together with an awakening about racial injustice, the pandemic has inspired necessary conversations about educational equity and access – with no easy answers. For curriculum leaders and academic officers, we […]
In 2020, if you were doing equity work, you were taking a hard look at your curriculum. The big equity conversations happening across the country are appropriately asking: “How do we ensure that students are experiencing culturally sustaining instruction? How do we bring the ‘science of reading’ into classroom practice, so that all students become […]
