“If there’s a big word, I just think in my head and sound it out. I love sounding out big words.”
03/14/2022
“The curriculum encourages kids to find different methods to do the same problem.”
03/29/2022
“This year I actually enjoy math…I have definitely improved. Grades have shown it. Not just grades, but actually understanding it.”
03/29/2022
“They’re [teachers] really letting the kids own the learning, really let the children engage, and let them reteach, respond, stand up.”
02/18/2020
“Change can be uncomfortable….Teachers have to know the standards. You have to know the why behind your instruction.”
04/20/2021
“If you give them the opportunity to really explore it on their own, it will blow you away what they are capable of.”
09/17/2021
“What is so encouraging to me is to…observe the level of engagement from our male children, particularly our male children of color.”
03/10/2020
“They have an opportunity to be better and stronger intellectually.”
03/10/2020
“It went from you being quiet, you taking notes, you doing exactly what I’m doing and copying exactly what I’m writing to now they talk about it.”
03/10/2020
“I can’t wait for the year after next when I am getting children who have had it for two years….We’ll be able to go so far.”
03/14/2022
“I think the change for the teachers came in that the questions were planned to start with.”
02/18/2020
“Trust the process. Don’t feel as though you can put every one of the routines in place the first time.”
09/17/2021
“I have seen a lot of growth since the beginning of the year with my kids, especially my struggling readers.”
04/05/2022
“With this curriculum, everyone is getting it, everyone is pushed. High learners, lower learners, everybody is being pushed.”
02/24/2020
“It is all there for us. So it makes it less stressful, and we are able to prepare more and be more prepared to teach it to the students.”
04/05/2022
“Through this process, we got to understand how kids start the reading process and how they excel through the reading process.”
04/19/2021
“How can you coach someone in any kind of instruction if you haven’t done it?….We challenge our potential as leaders by also being teachers.”
04/19/2021
“They were able to dive deep with students into content….All of the students had equal access to the text, no matter what their skill level was.”
04/19/2021
“You see the confidence of kids who have never been reading the same texts… now everybody’s on the same playing field.”
02/11/2020
“We have the high expectations that come naturally and we have the high expectations that have been proven through the use of HQIM.”
03/14/2022
“Knowing all of our schools had the same curriculum, and they have all of that at their availability to use, that was very helpful.”
03/14/2022
“I have never seen anything like this before. Kids going from no English to reading a reader. They feel success, they are bought into it.”
03/14/2022
“Student engagement has been phenomenal this year.”
06/07/2022
“It’s so helpful to have the rigor come from the curriculum and not be some added piece the teacher is having to fit in.”
06/07/2022
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