For years teachers have stressed their concerns about the spiral of Everyday Mathematics. You talked about it, and now change is here. The Districts within Oakland County have decided to do a new thing. We will no longer just stick to "the spiral" of Everyday Mathematics. Now we are chunking our lessons by curriculum units, so that our students can develop a Depth of Knowledge within units. We no longer have a day by day pacing guide, that we must follow the the letter in order to compete the spiral and tie a bow on everything. Now we have an enactment guide that helps us gage our timing, and units that do no match your set curriculum have been removed. This will enable us to cover the entire set of units for our particular grade levels. The districts still agree that Everyday Math covers more of the curriculum than any other resource, and the spiral effect, will help us continue to reinforce topics along the way. As we embrace this change, we hope that it will bring the change we need to help our students retain knowledge and continue to move forward! Change isn't always easy, but many times it makes things better!
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AuthorJuantonia Hill is the Math Instructional Coach for Southfield Public Schools. This blog represents the latest headline story inside of the monthly edition of Teacher Talk. Archives
March 2015
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