As I read this chapter I got more and more of a sense of urgency that we get a school wide curriculum. I think we are definately on the right track with going over map scores and finding the subjects that we are strong in and weaker at. The other thing that really stuck out to me in the chapter was the need for textbooks. I had honestly not given much thought to how schools have moved away from textbooks. I remember that when I was in school (a long time ago) textbooks were used in almost every subject. I think this did give each grade level possibly a more uniform curriculum because the classes were always working in the same chapters throughout the grade level.
The theme throughout does seem to be the fact that their needs to be less fluff and we just need to stick more to the basics of teaching. We need to find what works and stick with that, not just jump on something new every year or two.
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