In many places Lucy Calkins or Fountas and Pinnel was replaced by “bloated basals”
So “vibes based reading instruction” has been replaced by “read this same short passages each day for 5 days and do 5 million worksheets on it + the spelling pattern qu which, as a 4th grader you mastered in K but…”

I mean… I can’t imagine less engaging 😬 (ok- some- a few- of the stories into reading picked are great and if they had included the entire books instead of the out of context passages from books that’d be rad too… but on the whole it’s awful and I’m so sorry something exists that is worse!)

Interesting. I don’t know SAAVAS well but understand it has similar complaints to into reading - especially with the disengagement piece

Agree iready is such a unreliable data point in many ways but… will say if you understand its limitations, the fact that kids suddenly aren’t showing as much growth as they used to is a red flag we should be paying attention to- especially when looking at the bigger picture and other red flags

lol it feels that way. I had my suspicions and the November hit and I’m like… no possible way any of this is real life lol

Just everything in the news cycle is so bizarre it all reads like a comic book lol

How is any of the last four years real life but especially how is the last couple weeks real life, you know?