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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fundations is a Science of Reading-aligned curriculum that the Sold a Story podcast would support, FYI. It is explicit phonics instruction intended to be used on a whole class basis — exactly the sort of thing the podcast talks about going on in the Florida classroom she fawns over.[/quote]
Yes - but no one is certified in it.

The school may have purchased the program - but not the next step of getting teachers certified in the program.  They send 1 or 2 people from each school to a DCPS training session that is for 2 days - and those people are supposed to train all the other teachers.[/quote]

Not surprised.  Program changes but no training, poor implementation, no follow thru, etc….

Sure if your kid picks up testing fast or you read to your kids and have books at home, etc.. they will learn to read anywhere.  Also anecdotal.

But majority of kids in DCPS don’t fit above and struggle to read.  It’s obvious whatever program they have is not working well with such abysmally low proficiency stats.  Social promotion instead of more support doesn’t help either and the kids get further behind.

Because of equity, there are no required reading list in middle school.  We can’t have that because some kids won’t do it so no kid needs to do it.  [/quote]

Except that none of the above nonsense about equity is actually true.  My kid read tons of required books in middle school  and had required summer reading every year. [/quote]

Name the middle school and when exactly did your kid attend it……..[/quote]

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