Fort Worth ISD's scripted lesson plans cause outcry

Fort Worth ISD currently being run by the state is changing how instruction is delivered and not everyone's happy about it. Yeah so the controversy is over the district using scripted lesson plans which gives educators at lower rated schools very little leeway in how they teach. Fox Sports Dion Anglin live with the details on this. Dion. Hi there, that's right, a great deal of reaction as Fort Worth ISD creates a new overhauled instruction plan. The school system is operating under a state takeover with a newly appointed board of managers. Now feedback at Tuesday's school board meeting concerning new guidelines and policy was mixed as superintendent Dr. Peter Licata and the board have stricter expectations for the classroom. All of it comes as parents, teachers and students weigh in on issues such as teacher retention. More than 50 teachers left the district in the month of August. A new scripted curriculum model and a developing plan for Fort Worth ISD's goals and guardrails. I feel confident in saying there will be many more teachers leaving in the next couple of years. We've seen how this has played out in Houston ISD and who would want to teach using crappy AI slides, boring packets, scripted timed lessons, and only summaries of books. Who would want to teach where they're being constantly micromanaged? You can't expect us to make progress on reading if we do not have the staff to identify and serve the struggling readers. We do not have the staff. We also need transparency around scripted lessons. If the district leadership, which they have said that lessons are not scripted, then explain what teachers are required to follow and how much instructional freedom they have, students and educators deserve consistent answers. More than 1,000 people were signed up to speak at last night's board meeting. Some discussion surrounding the district's Cowtown 12 instructional model, a scripted lesson plan that lower-rated schools have very little leeway of straying from, while higher-rated schools have more autonomy. We will continue to follow these issues.