APS and IEP expectations

[Anonymous]

I would say a good 30% of the ckla workbooks are reprints of the reader chapters for students to take home and use as a reference for homework assignments (that we don’t give). Total waste. Then they have many pages where they give barely any space for a student to write the expected answer and some where they have a whole page of lines to answer 1 question. Additionally the ckla program (like envisions) is common core aligned so it doesn’t match up to not only VA SOLs but also not to the specific SOLs we may be targeting that quarter and there definitely is not enough instruction on a specific skill we might be targeting to show mastery. I like CKLA as a program but APS implementation has been problematic in terms of the support provided to teachers for standards based grading.

Envisions is a waste because it is common core aligned, and has a spiral review integrated (which is a good idea to have spiral review) but APS uses its own instructional order that doesn’t match envisions unit order so you can’t use many pages because they cover content you haven’t taught yet in the spiral questions, and additionally VA SOL doesn’t align with common core math. I don’t know why they wouldn’t choose a VA SOL aligned program and follow the order to get maximum usage. We didnt even get envision workbooks this year distributed to us.

[Anonymous]

Or we could do something really crazy and just go COMMON CORE like almost every other state.