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Sometimes I imagine that we had a different pandemic, and there had been evidence that the virus was spreading faster in our schools.

I believe we would have had closed schools for 2 years, likely across the US and globe.

And that most parents would have supported that.
I remember how closely we were watching as schools reopened in August, 2020, and how carefully we were reading the data.

It was, and is, a blessing that kids are less affected by COVID.

And they spread it less, too.
It was, and is, a blessing that COVID didn’t carry more risk for teachers than other professions.

If it had, I couldn’t have asked teacher friends to teach in-person.
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When our #KnowledgeMatters Tour visited @SalemSchoolsk12, we heard about the district’s shift from Teachers College Reading Workshop to stronger curriculum.

Teachers @staceyvail523, Erica Cabral, and Samantha Lear shared their experiences.

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“We were pulling from 125 different places.

There was so much cross checking between making sure that we were covering things that Lucy might not spell out so easily,” like teaching nouns and verbs.

@staceyvail523, a seventeen year veteran teacher in grades K and 2
“It meant a lot of Teachers Pay Teachers, which is not the best stuff.”

The time and $ cost driven by the need to supplement Reading Workshop was a theme across our conversations in @SalemSchoolsk12.

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