"Let's Make Texas Public Education Public"
Re: CSCOPE curriculum by admin » Thu Feb 07, 2013 11:17 am Posted anonymously by an East Texas teacher after she read , “Most Amazing Senate Ed Hearing Ever”: I would like to say how much I deeply appreciate that someone is out there looking into CSCOPE! There are SO many teachers that deplore the [...]
CSCOPE is A Sinking Ship! Don’t Let It Take Your Child’s Education Down With It. The following is written by a teacher…. This makes the amazing point that the whole point of purchasing CSCOPE is to have alignment, and since the spiral curriculum is completely destroyed (my conclusion) in CSCOPE…there is NO alignment! It destroys [...]
Please, someone, please send me a CSCOPE advocate to show me the way to attain 100% mastery of all grade level TEKS by all 70+ of my fifth grade students (including the modified and accommodated)! NO! NOT 70% of my students! NO! NOT MOST of the Category 1-5 TEKS Standards! I want ONE HUNDRED PERCENT [...]
2.1.13 – Written by a Texas teacher — how she really feels about CSCOPE: We’re going to be gifted with a transformed educational system (CSCOPE) that we are forced to accept without review, and demonized if we ask questions, which purportedly solves all problems with the big nasty STAAR test while helping keep every Texas [...]
My name is ??? and I am a teacher in the Texas public school system. As an employee of the public school system I have always been careful to express to people who ask me that choosing private school was a very personal choice based on my life experiences, and that public school can be [...]
Superintendent Perry, Malakoff I.S.D. defends CSCOPE Here. Following is one of Superintendent Perry’s Goals for his school district: Data driven decisions based on the needs of the individual student. This is where DMAC, color coding, meetings with colleagues, vertical teaming, the portfolios you are keeping on the students in your class, meetings with your principal to [...]
Superintendents Forbid Teacher to Educate Students Teachers that relate to this information, please send in comments. Written by a CSCOPE Teacher/Parent I have a unique perspective on CSCOPE. I have worked in the same district for over a decade and I’ve seen fads come and go. I get to see CSCOPE from a teacher’s point [...]
CSCOPE is taking the Life out of Teaching From a Teacher’s Heart by Mary Bowden Jan. 03, 2013 When I taught a methods course called, “The Emerging Reader,” at Texas State, I explained to my students who were all future teachers that by the end of the course I wanted them to emerge with a [...]
Texas History Teacher Speaks Out! CSCOPE–It’s a $$$ scheme. I am a history teacher in TX. I think I speak for 95% of teachers across the state when I say I hate CSCOPE. Texas Social Studies Teacher Speaks Out! My colleagues and I just spent an entire day “planning” for the next six weeks. Not [...]
CSCOPE Is Not Gone
Yes! TESCCC promised to remove the CSCOPE lessons by August, 2013. But, the TESCCC has promised to do lots of things and as yet few promises have been kept. TESCCC is requesting that superintendents have teachers copy the CSCOPE lessons. These superintendents don’t have what it takes to Cowboy up and tell TESCCC to shove [...]