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Anonymous wrote: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.

RGR is still available as an intervention.

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. 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.

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.

+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.

Core Knowledge is built around the idea of building content knowledge in all areas. Science, History and Geography are included.

While CKLA is built around the idea of building content knowledge, that doesn’t mean that the content knowledge available in its ELA accounts for all the Science, History, Geography content that grades should be expected to have covered. Hence why these teams should come together to collaborate. These ways things being covered in ELA don’t have to be repeated, and some things from ELA can be covered in the other subjects. Thus giving subjects reasonable amounts of time.

It’s not hard to cover writing or graphic organizers or even data gathering in other subjects. It also makes the content more applicable.

They should not skip the CKLA content. It is a good curriculum, much better than what MCPS does for science and social studies. They should modify science and social studies as needed to account for CKLA content already covered.

What's wrong with the NGSS standards? We use the NGSS lessons to teach science.

I thought NGSS were standards, not a curriculum. Is there a link to the curriculum?

MCPS teachers have access to legitimate, detailed NGSS lessons that align with the grade level standards. Most of us supplement and create other resources and use other materials to make it appropriate and accessible to all learners.

If teachers are required to create their own lessons and supplement, it does not sound like a very good curriculum.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

RGR is still available as an intervention.

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. 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.

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.

+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.

Core Knowledge is built around the idea of building content knowledge in all areas. Science, History and Geography are included.

While CKLA is built around the idea of building content knowledge, that doesn’t mean that the content knowledge available in its ELA accounts for all the Science, History, Geography content that grades should be expected to have covered. Hence why these teams should come together to collaborate. These ways things being covered in ELA don’t have to be repeated, and some things from ELA can be covered in the other subjects. Thus giving subjects reasonable amounts of time.

It’s not hard to cover writing or graphic organizers or even data gathering in other subjects. It also makes the content more applicable.

They should not skip the CKLA content. It is a good curriculum, much better than what MCPS does for science and social studies. They should modify science and social studies as needed to account for CKLA content already covered.

What's wrong with the NGSS standards? We use the NGSS lessons to teach science.

I thought NGSS were standards, not a curriculum. Is there a link to the curriculum?

MCPS teachers have access to legitimate, detailed NGSS lessons that align with the grade level standards. Most of us supplement and create other resources and use other materials to make it appropriate and accessible to all learners.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

RGR is still available as an intervention.

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. 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.

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.

+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.

Core Knowledge is built around the idea of building content knowledge in all areas. Science, History and Geography are included.

While CKLA is built around the idea of building content knowledge, that doesn’t mean that the content knowledge available in its ELA accounts for all the Science, History, Geography content that grades should be expected to have covered. Hence why these teams should come together to collaborate. These ways things being covered in ELA don’t have to be repeated, and some things from ELA can be covered in the other subjects. Thus giving subjects reasonable amounts of time.

It’s not hard to cover writing or graphic organizers or even data gathering in other subjects. It also makes the content more applicable.

They should not skip the CKLA content. It is a good curriculum, much better than what MCPS does for science and social studies. They should modify science and social studies as needed to account for CKLA content already covered.

What's wrong with the NGSS standards? We use the NGSS lessons to teach science.

I thought NGSS were standards, not a curriculum. Is there a link to the curriculum?

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Anonymous wrote: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.

RGR is still available as an intervention.

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. 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.

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.

+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.

Core Knowledge is built around the idea of building content knowledge in all areas. Science, History and Geography are included.

While CKLA is built around the idea of building content knowledge, that doesn’t mean that the content knowledge available in its ELA accounts for all the Science, History, Geography content that grades should be expected to have covered. Hence why these teams should come together to collaborate. These ways things being covered in ELA don’t have to be repeated, and some things from ELA can be covered in the other subjects. Thus giving subjects reasonable amounts of time.

It’s not hard to cover writing or graphic organizers or even data gathering in other subjects. It also makes the content more applicable.

They should not skip the CKLA content. It is a good curriculum, much better than what MCPS does for science and social studies. They should modify science and social studies as needed to account for CKLA content already covered.

What's wrong with the NGSS standards? We use the NGSS lessons to teach science.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

RGR is still available as an intervention.

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. 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.

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.

+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.

Core Knowledge is built around the idea of building content knowledge in all areas. Science, History and Geography are included.

While CKLA is built around the idea of building content knowledge, that doesn’t mean that the content knowledge available in its ELA accounts for all the Science, History, Geography content that grades should be expected to have covered. Hence why these teams should come together to collaborate. These ways things being covered in ELA don’t have to be repeated, and some things from ELA can be covered in the other subjects. Thus giving subjects reasonable amounts of time.

It’s not hard to cover writing or graphic organizers or even data gathering in other subjects. It also makes the content more applicable.

They should not skip the CKLA content. It is a good curriculum, much better than what MCPS does for science and social studies. They should modify science and social studies as needed to account for CKLA content already covered.

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Anonymous wrote:Is cursive part of CLKA?

Not sure but if you want to teach your kid, I highly recommend the Cursive Logic program.

I prefer to spend that time teaching them how to type correctly, but I guess you could go in the other direction and maybe take calligraphy lessons.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

RGR is still available as an intervention.

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. 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.

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.

+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.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

RGR is still available as an intervention.

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. 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.

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.

+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.

Core Knowledge is built around the idea of building content knowledge in all areas. Science, History and Geography are included.

While CKLA is built around the idea of building content knowledge, that doesn’t mean that the content knowledge available in its ELA accounts for all the Science, History, Geography content that grades should be expected to have covered. Hence why these teams should come together to collaborate. These ways things being covered in ELA don’t have to be repeated, and some things from ELA can be covered in the other subjects. Thus giving subjects reasonable amounts of time.

It’s not hard to cover writing or graphic organizers or even data gathering in other subjects. It also makes the content more applicable.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

RGR is still available as an intervention.

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. 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.

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.

+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.

Core Knowledge is built around the idea of building content knowledge in all areas. Science, History and Geography are included.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

RGR is still available as an intervention.

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. 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.

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.

+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.

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Anonymous wrote:Is cursive part of CLKA?

Not sure but if you want to teach your kid, I highly recommend the Cursive Logic program.

I prefer to spend that time teaching them how to type correctly, but I guess you could go in the other direction and maybe take calligraphy lessons.

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Anonymous wrote:The take home 2nd grade handout wants the parent to discuss early Asian civilizations and Buddhism and Hinduism. ?? Sure, after I spend 45 minutes reviewing the spelling list and doing a 2 sided Eureka math worksheet every night.

" So what are you guys learning about in school honey?"

"Can you tell me more about that?"

Not that hard

The answer is I don't know

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Anonymous wrote: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.

RGR is still available as an intervention.

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. 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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:Is cursive part of CLKA?

Not sure but if you want to teach your kid, I highly recommend the Cursive Logic program.

I prefer to spend that time teaching them how to type correctly, but I guess you could go in the other direction and maybe take calligraphy lessons.