Working at a brand new school offers many, many outlets to being creative. Because nothing has been developed curriculum-wise, we can go in any direction that we see fit to help our students succeed. For the past week, I have been engaged in a professional development that is being called a "curriculum institute". Throughout the "institute", many of my previous beliefs have finally been able to be listened to. Many of these pertain to questions about why certain topics are covered in math curriculums without much relevance to the real world (i.e. factoring polynomials, solving for contrived quadratics, etc.).

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