“I am so excited. Every year it gets richer and deeper and thicker and more invigorating for the students and myself. We learn new things.”
12/02/2022
“If we make a big purchase with this taxpayer money and we don’t use the materials, that is not being a good steward.”
12/02/2022
“I see students using vocab that they would not have used prior to being exposed to these read alouds and to these content-rich units.”
12/02/2022
“How can we continue to support our kids during Tier 1 instruction? We’ve added some things during Tier 4 time that supports Tier 1 instruction.”
12/02/2022
“We were not just given all of this and told to make it happen. We had leadership and training. When we go in by ourselves, we know what to do.”
12/01/2022
“The things that the district and TNTP have given us allow us to actually teach the knowledge and the skills.”
12/01/2022
“We’ve had fewer and fewer students that are Tier 3 level in upper grades. We don’t have any 5th graders that are Tier 3 for reading.”
12/01/2022
“It helps to have that uniform language. Something I firmly believe is that the best ideas come from the forging fires of collaboration.”
11/15/2022
“I have the knowledge and skills to teach them to read, and I feel confident in what I am giving them. It makes me feel hopeful I’m affecting change.”
11/15/2022
“There was a commitment to reduce variability in classrooms across grade levels and schools and to really dose up our instructional leadership team.”
11/15/2022
“It is giving everybody the same information and exposure that they would not be having otherwise.”
11/14/2022
“A core value of this building really is joy. We want kids to come and love school and be joyful, and we want teachers to be joyful.”
11/14/2022
“Teachers have been really excited about the collaboration and the academic talk that the students are building.”
10/13/2022
“You know you have the quality, and it is proven and researched. Now the delivery is up to you.”
10/13/2022
“There were times in my career I thought, ‘This is hard. I don’t feel like this is working.’ I don’t feel that way now. Every year I get better.”
10/13/2022
“He went through that second year, and it was just magic.”
10/12/2022
“Students are becoming content experts….in kindergarten, they can tell you eveything you want to know about trees.”
10/12/2022
“‘Hard’ shouldn’t necessarily have a bad connotation…it shows the depth of the curriculum and how much more is required of my students.”
10/12/2022
“Kids have bought into ELA. They think what we’re doing is worthy of their time.”
10/12/2022
“In the beginning I thought, ‘I don’t want to read a script. I’m a teacher. They hired me to do my job.’ But I have learned that it is so much more.”
10/12/2022
“When teachers really understand what they are teaching, then you don’t have to do as much reteaching. So the payoff first starts with the students.”
10/12/2022
“A culture shift overall in the building feels good and feels different – we have the same language, and we speak the same language.”
10/12/2022
“Kids are just consuming texts.”
06/07/2022
“We saw a huge increase in how students were speaking, reading, writing about the text independently.”
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