Where are you located? I fully agree that proper textbooks are an important element in fixing this mess. IMO the sequence is to fix the standards first, and the texbooks, statewide tests and teachers will follow.
Where are you located? I fully agree that proper textbooks are an important element in fixing this mess. IMO the sequence is to fix the standards first, and the texbooks, statewide tests and teachers will follow.
I'll send you a note. You have my contact info elsewhere. But this is truly chicken and egg. We have at least 5 bills sitting in committee in the House. I haven't looked, but I suspect there are parallel bills in the Senate. They sit. In another state I was on a school board for 10 years. When one writes standards, the methodology that works is to outline the textbook that will meet those standards before you actually write the standards to propose. That is how all the Covid-19 stuff I do matures to the point where it can be communicated, made consistent, written as bills, as well as defended. It is really a business process that works and is the shortest path to a good result: RFI, response, RFQ, response, contract, response, approve, execute and project manage. The RFI is the rough draft outline of the textbook. But to do that you have to do a deep dive down the rabbit hole, which results in a rough draft of the completed textbook- probably with a lot of detail mistakes, but with a good understanding of what the requirements are going to be. I'll contact our Superintendent of Education on this to get her opinion.
Where are you located? I fully agree that proper textbooks are an important element in fixing this mess. IMO the sequence is to fix the standards first, and the texbooks, statewide tests and teachers will follow.
I'll send you a note. You have my contact info elsewhere. But this is truly chicken and egg. We have at least 5 bills sitting in committee in the House. I haven't looked, but I suspect there are parallel bills in the Senate. They sit. In another state I was on a school board for 10 years. When one writes standards, the methodology that works is to outline the textbook that will meet those standards before you actually write the standards to propose. That is how all the Covid-19 stuff I do matures to the point where it can be communicated, made consistent, written as bills, as well as defended. It is really a business process that works and is the shortest path to a good result: RFI, response, RFQ, response, contract, response, approve, execute and project manage. The RFI is the rough draft outline of the textbook. But to do that you have to do a deep dive down the rabbit hole, which results in a rough draft of the completed textbook- probably with a lot of detail mistakes, but with a good understanding of what the requirements are going to be. I'll contact our Superintendent of Education on this to get her opinion.