To help students close COVID gaps, prioritize specific standards

A director of curriculum explains how his district is teaching students last year’s and this year’s skills at the same time.

In any school year and at every grade level, there is a tremendous amount of material for students to learn. As education researcher Robert Marzano has said, if we taught students each and every one of the standards that we have for students in the United States, we would have students in class year-round and they wouldn’t graduate until they were well into their 20s.