How much control do you have over your classrooms math curriculum? Feels like I'm on a very very short leash right now in terms of making my own adjustments.

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I’m told what book to work from but the curriculum is up to me. I can go as slow or fast as I want depending on if I feel my students are comfortable to move on to new content.

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I'm given workbooks, exit tickets and lesson plans I can choose to use.
I'm given exams I have to use.
As long as I'm over the district average performance on these exams and for AP Calculus exams better than district and state scores; I do whatever I want.
I should add I have 10 straight years of exceeding those average scores which helps.

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No one pays attention or cares.

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I'm supplied with access to everything I could want for text, tasks, exams, etc. My students hate the material presentation and I'm a vet so I go completely rogue. All I use from the provided curriculum is the unit headers and skillset objectives. The rest is all from my hoard of content.

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