For me two words are "success" and "competence" It reminds me of the productive struggle slides from earlier in the week, whereby the brain needs to be in that state of relaxed alertness to be open to learning a new skill. But mastery and competence are born from the struggle. As a teacher of younger children where virtually everyone is learning to read, I cannot imagine the stress an upper grade teacher feels when kids come in already been depleted of their sense of competence, belonging and success.
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But without using specific criteria for prioritization, everyone will most likely select different standards from their colleagues and then wonder why students come to them each year with such an inconsistent understanding of prior-grade standards.
I'm wondering now about the intersection between this work and curriculum adoption.
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