Roswell Independent School District
Roswell, NM
Core Knowledge/Amplify (K-5)
October 25, 2023 - October 26, 2023
02/07/2024
10/26/2023
“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.”
10/26/2023
“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.”
10/26/2023
“We had students who never saw grade level rigor ever in a day.”
10/26/2023
“My daughter was on the swing telling me to push her as high as Machu Picchu. She’s in second grade.”
10/26/2023
“I feel like it’s really allowing them to flourish within themselves equally.”
10/25/2023
“I’m like, ‘These are huge words how are these kids going to understand?’ But they they rise to the occasion.”
10/25/2023
“I asked the kids, ‘Did they know what an ancient civilization was?’ ‘Yes, we learned about Mesopotamia in first grade.’ I was blown away.”
10/25/2023
“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.”
10/25/2023
“One of the students says ‘deciduous’ and uses the vocabulary word we had yesterday. I was just in shock and awe because he understood that word.”
10/25/2023