Each of us should work from our own intuitions and strengths as we plan how we are going to navigate each year so that we can get through it as best we can with the highest mental health possible and the best results for our kids.
We are all trying to get that balance, almost impossible in American schools today, to be mentally healthy while doing all we can for the kids. (Most of us let the mental health piece – a category here – go and that is just plain dumb.)
But, certainly, there is no way we can say there is some kind of official “yearly plan” that we could uncover in this explosion of ideas that we are now experiencing as the mushroom cloud of comprehension based instruction gets into bigger and bigger puffs with no end in sight. We must all work in the way we feel most comfortable with all of this and not do it in a certain way just because somebody has some ideas.
This work we are doing will never be prescribed and no textbook could every be written about how to do it in one certain way. If this PLC were open to the public, many teachers who are married to the old method would cry in reading that last sentence.