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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC independent school educator here:
1) LC curriculum and the F&P assessment systems are not unique to independent schools. Thousands of public and charter schools across the country also use them. 
2) "Curriculum" and "educational philosophy" are not the same thing. 
3) "Sold a Story" shares a lot of valuable information, AND is an extremely biased perspective. 
[b]4) The adoption of a new curriculum is a huge endeavor for a school. It actually shouldn't happen overnight. If schools are taking some time to conduct an audit and explore alternatives, that's a good thing because it would be awful to jump ship into a program that is also problematic. [/b]
5) Instead of speculating through an anonymous forum, approach your school (admin and ELA coach/specialist) with curiosity, explain your concerns, and ask about next steps. [/quote]

A “huge endeavor” oh please. Sounds like laziness and complacency to me. [/quote]

Also, schools aren't starting from scratch here. This is another thing that frustrates me - the idea that they school needs to look at and study every curriculum out there to find the "best" one. There are plenty of resources out there that have done this review and made recommendations for effective, science-backed curricula. And quite frankly, many of our lower school teachers don't actually have the skills and knowledge to *do* a thorough review of curriculum (nor do I expect them to). I know independent schools like to think of themselves as super special and "above" using other organization's recommendations, but this is absolutely the right choice. (This one is personal - our now-former lower school is implementing a new math curriculum this year that has been dropped by our state's very good curriculum recommendation committee for not reflecting current science-based methods for teaching math; but the school is instead adopting it. And worse, the math specialist wasn't even aware of the fact it had been un-recommended or that there were concerns about it.)[/quote]

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