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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 [b]envisions (I don’t even want to know the $$$$ that was spent on that)[/b]. 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 didn't know what envisions are when I first read this post, but then I was going through all the stuff my kids brought back home from school, and found brand-new Envision workbooks. 2 volumes per kid. They look like nice workbooks, but my kids will never use them. Seems like a big waste![/quote]

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