Yes, but…

Colleagues,

MVP: When we can’t do what’s ideal, look for strategies to support and grow people.

A couple weeks ago I suggested rolling out new curriculum standards all at once didn’t make a lot of sense. One of my favorite readers (am I allowed to have favorites?) shared:

  …we have other factors at play which make it less practical to do a phased rollout.  Primarily, schools are due to renew their subscriptions/contracts for curriculum materials.  With an expected 3–5-year contract commitment schools would be bound to a certain text for those years, and what if it didn't align with the new standards?  That being said, we do plan a rollout that has four phases to it so that schools and teachers have several months to go through the training/PD for the new standards before they have to work with them.  We will also be keeping the standards in draft form for the first year of use so that we can take feedback from the teachers and amend them before finalizing.  

I’m so grateful for the sharing. Contracts for purchasing materials add complexity.

Still, it seems to me the reader is doing a partial phased in implementation. By not requiring immediate full implementation and providing training on the front end, teachers do have some time to ease into the standards.

Sometimes we can’t do what’s ideal, so we look for strategies to support and grow our people.

Cheers!

Frederick