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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The spelling program in grades 3-5 isn't good at all because it's under the impression that every student is on grade-level. RGR would still be a good supplement in grades 3-5 for struggling readers.[/quote]

RGR is still available as an intervention.[/quote]

We were basically told as a staff that only a very small handful of students would be getting intervention because there isn't enough time in the schedule because ckla is so time consuming. It takes 2 hours a day to complete the entire curriculum if you're doing it correctly. [b]My daughter's 4th grade ELA teacher admitted that the kids are getting 15 minutes of social studies because she doesn't have time to do anything else[/b]. [/quote]

As a school leader, this is what drives me nuts about MCPS. Each curriculum office chooses a number of minutes per day/week that a subject must be taught. It's presented each year at a meeting in the spring when we begin developing schedules for the next year. All of the building leaders in the room add up the recommended times for each subject area and repeatedly tell central office that there literally aren't enough minutes in our current school day to teach the subjects with the times given. No curriculum office wants to back down from their recommendations as each feels their subject is the most important. Inevitably, we go back to our own schools and prioritize reading and math while doing our best to fit in SS and science. We also have FIT time at our school so students get targeted, small group instruction that isn't offered within the CKLA or Eureka blocks. If we didn't provide targeted small group instruction, our data would be worse. It's a lose-lose with all these competing demands. In all honesty, lunch/recess needs to go back to sixty minutes and we should extend the day by about thirty minutes.[/quote]

+1 Plus at the ES level, these teams should sit down to see where cross curricular learning to take place.  SS and Science include ELA and Math.[/quote]

Sorry but as an ES teacher, I cannot spend another 40 minutes a day teaching. Not enough money in the world (and definitely not in the budget).[/quote]

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