Teacher Abuse

I don’t know if the terms “teacher abuse” is a term, but it’s a thing.  It usually is due to a narcissist type of administrator, or some whack job of a department chair or colleague. I used to stay in those schools even though I knew that “something was wrong”. In one case, I stayed

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Awe!

I just got an email from our group member Karin who is an accomplished StarChart™-trained teacher: Ben, I was reading this article and as I was reading it, I realized that AWE is exactly what your STAR curriculum allows me experience  with my students in every class. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/on-parenting/children-awe-emotion/2021/11/29/0f78a4b0-4c8e-11ec-b0b0-766bbbe79347_story.html?fbclid=IwAR0yvta2DFHBljMaZ4_xWB_N3mu0hxbBAIvSuoIUQBnmFceb0zVcUGLyHFU It especially resonated with me when the

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Video on Assessment

I feel strongly that more discussions are needed about the huge split between how we use CI and how we test with CI, that whole gnarly topic. What’s going on now, testing CI students with traditional methods, is in my opinion a disaster. https://youtu.be/rTD7918LBkY

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New Levels

One of our group members is teaching 180 students per day in 8 classes lasting 42 minutes each. Some of her colleagues have nine classes. One hour of instructional time per day has been shifted over to core classes. We’ve always known we were a dumping ground, but this is taking things to new levels

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Pacing Guides* Are Bogus

TPRS/CI is a student-driven methodology. It responds to the linguistic needs of the students at any given time. This makes it free-flowing. Free flowing is a good word to apply to a language curriculum. It’s not a math curriculum and thus left brain/dominant. It is a whole brain curriculum. TPRS/CI believes that we should shelter

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