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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]APS teacher here (4th). I just want to say, first, we don’t have a true adoption that we use. Teachers spend so much time making up SOL-aligned work. At every school. It’s insanity and APS does nothing to help. Yes we have envisions (I don’t even want to know the $$$$ that was spent on that). The issue is envisions is common core aligned which does not match VA SOLs, and then even the order of envisions does not match APS order of instructional units. There are mixed review questions on every page and often these review questions don’t relate to anything my students have learned so they are a total waste. There is a tiny 30 page section at the back of the workbook with VA specific work that we sometimes use. Also envisions is very clunky online to use, requiring a thousand clicks to get to the lesson tools you need. So if you want to know why there is not enough enrichment or acceleration opportunities, well, I’m just one person trying to get through all the instruction I have to do before SOLs and I barely get 90 minutes a day to make all my plans (one day is actually meetings). There just isn’t time to do all of what you want. Get me better instructional materials that align and are good so I don’t have to make up stuff every year (or, update what I made last year to be better or have different review questions because APS changed the order, etc).[/quote]

I’m with you on this - I agree the weird order of SOLs in Virginia makes for a strange situation. But fcps can deepen and accelerate just fine under similar conditions. Those kids receive an appropriately differentiated curriculum. In APS, my kid had to sit and listen to material that she knew years ago - and pretend for her teacher that she didn’t know it and saw it as “deep” when she’d done much more challenging material at home. It’s a charade. APS should serve its gifted students with more than a weird worksheet here and there (on artwork?) to pretend there is extension. It’s simply not worth anyone’s time.

I think APS’ math curriculum is so weak that even a kid who is gifted, who isn’t receiving outside education, would not show up as gifted. I find it so sad. How are kids getting ready for higher level math? [/quote]

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