End Mayor Adams' Scripted Curriculum Mandates, Now -- #UFTproud
Mayor Eric Adams, Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos, UFT President Michael Mulgrew
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Educators, it's time to reclaim our classrooms! We, the teachers and our school communities —not politicians, bureaucrats, or corporations—know best what works for our students. Yet, we are forced to teach using Mayor Adams' latest scripted reading and math curriculum mandates that treat classrooms like assembly lines.
These mandated curricula, whether from for-profit corporations, nonprofits, or politicians who have never spent a day in the classroom, rob us of our professional freedom and leave us to clean up the mess when they fail to meet the needs of our students.
These mandates are often about profits and control, whether it's big corporations or nonprofit organizations trying to dictate what happens in our classrooms.
While, UFT members are still dealing with a lot of unnecessary and frustrating managerial oversight. We're being pushed by school admins and superintendents to use certain scripted curricula that just don't cut it. There's not enough support, and many don't seem to get the wide-ranging needs of students in the biggest, most diverse school system around --- or they also feel pressured to implement.
Already the data is showing a decline in students' performance with the mandated reading curriculum while non-expert bureaucrats are not being held accountable. It's being blamed on an "implementation dip" that may take years to correct in order to see positive gains. Quite simply, our students cant wait!
Every time teachers and school communities lose control of their curriculum, it's our students who pay the price.
We demand the freedom to choose, adapt, create and implement the curriculum that best serves our students—no rigid top-down mandates, no exceptions.
Join us in launching a common sense educator-driven campaign to fight for real classroom control, where curriculum decisions are actively made by teachers, along with their school communities, and centered around best practices and the diverse learners we serve.
Curriculum adoptions must be optional, giving teachers and our school communities the power to opt in or out based on what works in their classrooms, not what works for corporate interests or bureaucratic, political agendas.
Sign on to support this grassroots movement and to support our proposed UFT resolution.
Help us make a difference in our students' lives!
Teacher freedom and autonomy, now. End the micromanagement.
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To:
Mayor Eric Adams, Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos, UFT President Michael Mulgrew
From:
[Your Name]
We call on you to halt the mandated curricula in NYC Reads and NYC Solves until active and authentic input by educators and school communities is part of any future decision-making process.
These mandated curricula, whether from for-profit corporations, nonprofits, or politicians who have never spent a day in the classroom, rob us of our professional freedom and leave us to clean up the mess when they fail to meet the needs of our students.
These mandates are often about profits and control, whether it's big corporations or nonprofit organizations trying to dictate what happens in our classrooms.
Educators are dealing with a lot of unnecessary and frustrating managerial oversight in the midst of the many unprecedented challenges our city and schools are facing in today's political climate. There's not enough support, and many of them don't seem to get the wide-ranging needs of students in the biggest, most diverse school system around --- or they also feel pressured to implement.
Already the data is showing a decline in students' performance with the mandated reading curriculum while non-expert bureaucrats are not being held accountable. It's being blamed on an "implementation dip" that may take years to correct in order to see positive gains.
Every time teachers and school communities lose control of their curriculum, it's our students who pay the price.
We demand the freedom to choose, adapt, create and implement the curriculum that best serves our students—not rigid top-down mandates.
Curriculum decisions must be actively made by teachers, along with their school communities, and centered around best practices and the diverse learners we serve.
Curriculum adoptions must be optional, giving teachers and our school communities the power to opt in or out based on what works in their classrooms, not what works for corporate interests or bureaucratic, political agendas.