Speaking as a parent, if you honestly believe that making sure teachers have decent curriculum is evil, then your own kids aren't in public schools. Once you see what kids learn, and how widely it varies from classroom to classroom in the same building, you can never unsee it.
@HKorbey Huuuuuuge variety! Unbelievable. I thought parents compared notes. Maybe they do, but not following through. Last year, my home district was using 3 (Count ‘em!) THREE different curricula for math. In third grade.
@HKorbey When you have twins, you can see the huge difference between what different teachers teach and what the kids learn.
@HKorbey Our school had intervention products in the building, but no teacher's manual made available to the small group teacher. So, she went out and bought a Lakeshore phonics workbook to work with my son. She was putting together what she could. Kids get the short end of the stick.
@HKorbey Across the country, students spend 3/4 of their time in lessons that are not grade appropriate: opportunitymyth.tntp.org/the-weight-of-…
@HKorbey What does this mean? Curriculum should be uniform? And non-uniformity is evil? Bad writing.
@HKorbey @rpondiscio It’s shocking and sad.. as a teacher and parent.
@HKorbey Even with decent curriculum, some teachers just don’t use it because they don’t want to. I teach and can tell you exactly which teachers I would let teach my kids and which I would flat out refuse because it would take them forever to rebound.
@HKorbey It's not just quality curriculum, it's also teaching your staff how to implement it, and best practices using systematic and frequent professional development. The best curriculum cannot teach itself. The teacher is only as good as the support h/she receives.