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I just watched that video and I'm incredibly upset. I'm currently teaching math at a high school that is on "priority improvement" and needs to reach impossible goals this year or face a "take over" by the state. Our curriculum is the Core series of math books that is incredibly word heavy while we have a student population that can't read that well and is primarily ELL. We have been told it is a directive that we must use the book in class. Every class period, all class period, which is 58 minutes. I had to do training on Saturday for six hours regarding our use of the book in class. They've been using these books for the past few years and it hasn't worked, in fact we need even more growth this year than was needed in the past to get out of priority improvement. Instead of changing the curriculum to include ideas like the ST Math program they're essentially threatening our jobs. There has to be a way to get these products into more classrooms like ours.