MCPS: New ELA curriculum for 2023-2024 school year

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Anonymous wrote:I don't see it on the agenda for today either. I've already signed up to do the training this summer as a teacher. It's so strange that they haven't announced which curriculum they will be adopting.

Maybe something from Discovery Education or Curriculum 3.0!?!

C3.0 written by Discovery Education

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Pearson needs a cut! What a ridiculous public school system. Utter laughingstock

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, I thought the 28th for the final decision. It can't be during the closed session, can it?! We heard there are three being considered. Which ones? Anyone?

It wasn't in closed session last time they decided, so I think they have decided to postpone it, which makes me very worried. We are at a new Benchmark pilot school, and it is not going well. I really, really don't want to be stuck with it next year.

I'm sure all those curriculum specialists at the Central Office are totally on top of this...

250,000 a year for yet another shi**show

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bringing RGR to all primary students has been one of the smartest moves I've ever seen in MCPS. Students respond very well to the curriculum. I can't help but think how many kids we missed over the years because we weren't teaching the science of reading.

Don’t feel too bad…balanced literacy lobby will water this curriculum down. MCPS ALWAYS finds a way to fail. ALWAYS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Bringing RGR to all primary students has been one of the smartest moves I've ever seen in MCPS. Students respond very well to the curriculum. I can't help but think how many kids we missed over the years because we weren't teaching the science of reading.

Don’t feel too bad…balanced literacy lobby will water this curriculum down. MCPS ALWAYS finds a way to fail. ALWAYS.

Our school is one of the Benchmark 2.0 pilot schools. I really hope they offer RGR to us next year, especially if they aren't going to select a new curriculum.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bringing RGR to all primary students has been one of the smartest moves I've ever seen in MCPS. Students respond very well to the curriculum. I can't help but think how many kids we missed over the years because we weren't teaching the science of reading.

Don’t feel too bad…balanced literacy lobby will water this curriculum down. MCPS ALWAYS finds a way to fail. ALWAYS.

Our school is one of the Benchmark 2.0 pilot schools. I really hope they offer RGR to us next year, especially if they aren't going to select a new curriculum.

They have plenty of money for the KId's Museum or boundary studies that they will never implement or SEL-lite courses, but when buying a solid and proven curriculum, they always seem to cut corners.

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Can we factor in how this absence of an announcement is affecting teacher morale and parent buy-in to the system??

They need to at least acknowledge that things didn't go as planned (twice!) and outline what is happening or what is holding things up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can we factor in how this absence of an announcement is affecting teacher morale and parent buy-in to the system??

They need to at least acknowledge that things didn't go as planned (twice!) and outline what is happening or what is holding things up.

+1. This makes me think something shady is going on.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can we factor in how this absence of an announcement is affecting teacher morale and parent buy-in to the system??

They need to at least acknowledge that things didn't go as planned (twice!) and outline what is happening or what is holding things up.

+1. This makes me think something shady is going on.

It seems so odd that they had teachers sign up for training already and yet aren't saying anything. The lack of communication is so very MCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can we factor in how this absence of an announcement is affecting teacher morale and parent buy-in to the system??

They need to at least acknowledge that things didn't go as planned (twice!) and outline what is happening or what is holding things up.

+1. This makes me think something shady is going on.

It seems so odd that they had teachers sign up for training already and yet aren't saying anything. The lack of communication is so very MCPS.

The teachers aren’t saying anything because we are in the dark as well. You are correct that teachers have already had to sign up for training (Two days for the new ELA curriculum). We selected dates, but no locations are provided for the trainings (trainings are all in person this summer). They could be held anywhere within the county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can we factor in how this absence of an announcement is affecting teacher morale and parent buy-in to the system??

They need to at least acknowledge that things didn't go as planned (twice!) and outline what is happening or what is holding things up.

+1. This makes me think something shady is going on.

It seems so odd that they had teachers sign up for training already and yet aren't saying anything. The lack of communication is so very MCPS.

The teachers aren’t saying anything because we are in the dark as well. You are correct that teachers have already had to sign up for training (Two days for the new ELA curriculum). We selected dates, but no locations are provided for the trainings (trainings are all in person this summer). They could be held anywhere within the county.

The pandemic provided people with some things that should stick and Zoom trainings over the summer are absolutely one of the things MCPS should not be getting rid of.

[Anonymous]

I'm going to lose my mind if I have to teach Benchmark another year. My kids hate the texts in Benchmark. I do love RGR for the phonics component though. I never felt like the phonics portion of Benchmark was effective. Swapping it out with RGR was the best decision I've seen MCPS make in my fifteen years with the system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can we factor in how this absence of an announcement is affecting teacher morale and parent buy-in to the system??

They need to at least acknowledge that things didn't go as planned (twice!) and outline what is happening or what is holding things up.

+1. This makes me think something shady is going on.

It seems so odd that they had teachers sign up for training already and yet aren't saying anything. The lack of communication is so very MCPS.

The teachers aren’t saying anything because we are in the dark as well. You are correct that teachers have already had to sign up for training (Two days for the new ELA curriculum). We selected dates, but no locations are provided for the trainings (trainings are all in person this summer). They could be held anywhere within the county.

The pandemic provided people with some things that should stick and Zoom trainings over the summer are absolutely one of the things MCPS should not be getting rid of.

I agree completely! However, all trainings for elementary teachers are in person (all locations TBD).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm going to lose my mind if I have to teach Benchmark another year. My kids hate the texts in Benchmark. I do love RGR for the phonics component though. I never felt like the phonics portion of Benchmark was effective. Swapping it out with RGR was the best decision I've seen MCPS make in my fifteen years with the system.

I hope that schools that didn't have RGR get it next year, at the very least.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can we factor in how this absence of an announcement is affecting teacher morale and parent buy-in to the system??

They need to at least acknowledge that things didn't go as planned (twice!) and outline what is happening or what is holding things up.

+1. This makes me think something shady is going on.

It seems so odd that they had teachers sign up for training already and yet aren't saying anything. The lack of communication is so very MCPS.

The teachers aren’t saying anything because we are in the dark as well. You are correct that teachers have already had to sign up for training (Two days for the new ELA curriculum). We selected dates, but no locations are provided for the trainings (trainings are all in person this summer). They could be held anywhere within the county.

The pandemic provided people with some things that should stick and Zoom trainings over the summer are absolutely one of the things MCPS should not be getting rid of.

I agree completely! However, all trainings for elementary teachers are in person (all locations TBD).

Not sure why MCEA members didn’t push for this during negotiations. I need to get out of this district ASAP. It’s a disaster.