Standards

I've had a handful of conversations about state standards of late. To paraphrase all of those conversations: your curriculum is your state standards. The confusion comes with adopted materials that teachers have at their disposal. In any given set of materials you have any number of holes. By that I mean teaching those materials alone will cover a vast majority of your standards, but you'll likely miss a few standards because you don't have a kit hitting that science standard, or a unit that includes money, etc.

Is that a big revelation? No, it isn't. But you need exercise some professional judgement before going through units 1-20 in lockstep.