Colleagues,
MVP: Just because you are asked to implement something doesn’t mean you need to implement the whole thing all at once. Picture this – a new math curriculum gets rolled out by the state. Schools implement the new math curriculum. If anything changed in the scope and sequence of the content, some kids will be missing chunks of the new curriculum. If this happened once every 20 years, that might not be a huge problem, but it seems many states are constantly revising curricula. In turn, this means teachers are constantly having to change what they teach. One way to cope with mandates is to do phased implementation. Just focus on a small piece of the mandate, not the whole thing. Does implementing a small part of a curriculum make sense? Not really. But neither does changing a curriculum in mid-stream. At least with a phased implementation, teachers will have the time and attention to refine their teaching of the most important elements instead of trying to figure out an entirely new scope and sequence. Cheers! Frederick
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