My Experiences with 3-5 Year Plans

From 2008-2012, I served as a math teacher in PA. Our department head would laminate his scope and sequence, his curricular timeline, before the school year started. Every year he would make a joke of this, but there was nothing funny about it. By laminating it, that meant that his timeline for student learning was fixed and would not change at all!

Now, I'm all for setting goals and being organized. However, I also experienced several times when initiatives which very well could have been implemented immediately, were pushed back to wherever they fit into the 3-5 Year Plan. Struggling learners (staff or students) don't have 3-5 years to wait!