The associate superintendent of Training Instruction and Curriculum at Wayward ISD announced the adoption of a new acronym training which will revolution teaching at Wayward High School. Dr. Noe Itall said that the new approach to planning and teaching was a brand new effort backed by years of research-based data that would ensure that all students at WHS would be successful on TAKS, the ultimate measure of college & career readiness and all things important to life and administration bonuses. The new training modules are designed to implement lesson plans which are Creative, Relevant, Attention-getting, and Positive. According to Dr. Itall, the new training is the key to improving teacher planning. Lessons will be reformed to fit a new template so that all plans will look exactly alike and anyone could step into a classroom and teach the lesson. This would require re-doing all of the curriculum writing that was done the previous year that was last year's brand new approach supported by decades of research. Dr. Itall said that last year's lesson plan format which created plans that are Credible, Rigorous, Unexpected, and Diverse will be replaced.
Neither Dr. Itall nor any of his staff have any experience in teaching in high school but he doesn't consider that a drawback. He learned of this approach during a session at a conference last year where he also learned of the CRUD lesson plan structure. "We used to think that CRUD was the key to great teaching and student learning, but know we know that it's CRAP." Several high school teachers noted that there was nothing new or "improved" about either of these methods but that the re-writing of the curriculum would take hundreds of uncompensated and unnecessary worker hours. When asked if he had consulted with any high school teachers, Dr. Itall, looking perplexed by the suggestion, said, "No, why would I?"
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