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Is your school or district thinking about rolling out a new math curriculum? Or perhaps you adopted one this year, and itās not going as smoothly as you had hoped? Youāre in good company because todayās guest, Leanna Lantz, has been there. She describes her first round of curriculum implementation as āa dismal failure.ā But luckily she reflected on that experience and is sharing her biggest lessons learned from those mistakes in this episode. Listen in to hear some of the promising practices she uses now to invest key stakeholders in the process to ensure all students have access to high quality curriculum.
Summary & Highlights:Ā
In this episode, Chrissy interviews Leanna Lantz, Senior Director of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment at Perspectives Charter Schools. In their conversation, Leanna shares:
āMistakes and lessons learned from rolling out new curricula
āThe curriculum adoption + implementation process she uses now
āWays to invest stakeholders in the process
āHow (and why) she implemented āCurriculum Think Tanksā for teachers
āWhy getting an aligned curriculum in place is worth it (even though itās A LOT of work)
āThe benefits of using a common curricula in schools with high percentages of new teachers and / or teacher turnover
āWhy having high quality curriculum in schools is an equity issue