FWIW, this is a 🧵 about T1 core curriculum program choice. I’ve very frequently encountered a pattern over the last few years among districts that struggle with the particular problem I am about to lay out relative to some specific products. This is neither an endorsement, nor a 🧵rejection, of these products- simply my observations and thoughts. For various reasons, these schools whittle down their choices to CKLA or a combination of Fundations, Geodes, and Wit & Wisdom (referred to as FGWW moving forward). This happens so often that I thought it might

Thread 🧵I can’t stop thinking abt how the 1st graders of 2020-2021 are in a particularly dangerous, vulnerable position for not learning how to read well, and the prices they may pay. I’m seeing widespread patterns. Their kindergarten learning was interrupted just as they 🧵 should have been heavily diving into phonic decoding at basic single-syllable levels, which leads to quickly learning a bunch of words via orthographic mapping (not visual memorization), and launching into the fantastic journey of becoming readers. That’s if their pre-pandemic