“The grade level standard is not the ceiling for some, but it needs to be the floor for everybody. All students need to sit at that grade level.”
10/26/2024
“You had your high group, middle group, and low group. And there was not a common body of knowledge that the students had in their classroom.”
10/26/2024
“We had students who never saw grade level rigor ever in a day.”
10/26/2024
“My daughter was on the swing telling me to push her as high as Machu Picchu. She’s in second grade.”
10/26/2024
“I feel like it’s really allowing them to flourish within themselves equally.”
10/25/2024
“I’m like, ‘These are huge words how are these kids going to understand?’ But they they rise to the occasion.”
10/25/2024
“I asked the kids, ‘Did they know what an ancient civilization was?’ ‘Yes, we learned about Mesopotamia in first grade.’ I was blown away.”
10/25/2024
“I’m able to just build on what they already know, I’m not responsible for all of the background knowledge, because they already have it.”
10/25/2024
“When they take the assessment, they can make that cognitive lift and apply the science information that they’ve learned in a different setting.”
09/28/2023
“I have been very impressed with their writing through the years, it’s just seems like every group we get, they’re just better writers.”
09/28/2023
“This absolutely gives every kid the opportunity to access the same tier one curriculum, whether they come from an affluent family or a poor family.”
09/28/2023
“The biggest difference is the application. It’s really no memorization. They have to have the knowledge.”
09/28/2023
“Once we went through the PLC process, we started looking at data together. It really changed the way you interacted with people in your grade level.”
09/27/2023
“I did not want teachers having to go out and search for things. I did not want them to have to go and pull video clips from somewhere else.”
09/27/2023
“If you don’t know how people can affect the environment, people are going to keep affecting the environment in a bad way.”
09/27/2023
“The EL curriculum is great for enhancing creativity, because there’s so many projects that with other curricula you wouldn’t have thought of doing.”
06/07/2023
“It’s teaching us ELA skills, but it’s also teaching us life skills, things that we need to know for the future.”
06/07/2023
“Our old ELA curriculum didn’t really focus on collaboration with the people in your class, which is obviously incredibly important for us.”
06/07/2023
“If I just take the easy one, I’m not really pushing myself to learn harder.”
06/06/2023
“You can see that they’re more comfortable and confident in their writing and in their conversations.”
06/06/2023
“I can say that I have grown with reading understanding. So now, if I read somebody asked me what I learned from the story, I can say a lot.”
06/06/2023
“You see the students engage in conversations that wouldn’t necessarily happened if the curriculum was different across the classrooms.”
06/06/2023
“I’ve learned to step back and give the students more of the torch.”
06/06/2023
“What excites me is seeing the fifth graders in these deep conversations.”
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