MyView Learning Letter #8-Overview of Program

Want to read the BEST overview? Check out this here.  

It will be in the middle of the page, first button to push. :) 

Have questions? Reach out! 

MyView Learning Letter #7-Roadmap

 Who doesn't love a visual to see where we are headed and what's next?

I would love to highlight that I will hosting coffee chats in July at Cure to come and talk about our new MyVIEW HQIM. Come join me! 

VLA Professional Learning

As you can see, the VLA requires professional learning! Thankfully, if you have completed LETRS, you only have to complete the Capstone Course. If you have not completed LETRS, you will need to complete the K-5 Teachers Canvas Course. More information will be coming, but I wanted to at least, give you some information about professional learning expectations for the following school year.

 As always, let me know if you have questions! 

Virginia Literacy Act Playbook

https://sites.google.com/iwcs.k12.va.us/islereadislewrite/vla-virginia-literacy-act

 

Science of Reading

You may have heard the buzz about "Sold A Story", a podcast exposing the ineffectiveness of balanced literacy. If not, listen here. 

While it is a great listen, I believe in paradoxes. Two things can be true at the same time. According to Brene Brown, "A paradox is the appearance of a contradiction between two related components. ...the opposing elements are paradox are inextricably linked. Even though the elements are contradictory, they actually complement and inform each other in ways that allow us to discover underlying truths..." pg. 82. 

So, if you listen to "Sold a Story", also read The Broken Logic of "Sold a Story": A Personal Response to "The Science of Reading" by Thomas Newkirk found here (second link). 

Both/And is a powerful tool as you learn with curiosity and courage. 

MyView Learning Letter #6-Access Materials

Want to learn more about the Teacher's Editions and what it will look like? 

Cool! We have two things to help! 

One, log into the digital demo credentials for 2025 to familiarize yourself with the digital resources.  

1. Visit savvas.com/myViewRealize

2. Enter the credentials below

Username: myView2025EarlyReview

Password: Welcome!

NOTE: Password is case sensitive

Two, check out these walk through guides. 

Kindergarten

1st Grade

2nd Grade

3rd Grade

4th Grade

5th Grade

Digital 

Cognitive Dissonance

 In this fabulous book about emotions,  

the author discusses Cognitive Dissonance. Read more here. And yes, I am an underliner and annotator! What would you underline and/or annotate while you read it? What are you thinking? 

 

As we embark on new learning with our new curriculum, let's stay curious and resist choosing comfort over courage. 

Yours in Learning, 

Haley

MyView Learning Letter #5-Thematic Units

 MyView is a knowledge building curriculum! 

Each grade level follows similar content themes for each of the 5 units. The only change is that in Unit 2 of Kindergarten, it is NOT Living Things but Living Together. 

MyView Learning Letter #4-Materals

 What do I get?!

We have sheets that illustrate what you will receive when the materials arrive. The Realize page is for all and is the same K-5. 

Realize

Kindergarten

1st Grade

2nd Grade

3rd Grade

4th Grade

5th Grade 

MyView Learning Letter #3-Literacy Block

 

What will my literacy block look like? 

The myView Literacy curriculum is divided into five units, with each unit taking place over six weeks. The Teacher’s Edition and Small Group Professional Development Guide provide extensive information about all components of the unit and specific details for each lesson component. Suggested time frames and ranges for each component of a lesson are provided on the Unit and Weekly Planning pages. Time is built into the schedule each day for whole-class instruction, small-group instruction, independent practice, collaborative group work, and reflection. 

The materials in myView Literacy are well-designed with pacing appropriate to fit an English Language Arts block. The pacing of daily lessons in myView Literacy is based on the best practice of 120-180 minutes per day of reading/writing instruction across Grades K-5. In IWCS, our goal is 120 minutes or 2 hours. Research recommends the use of an uninterrupted, 90-minute block as the foundation for a strong early literacy program, therefore the pacing allows for increased time on task in Grades K-5. 

Grades K-5 Daily Times 

Total Time for Reading*: 60 minutes 

Total Time for Writing*: 30 minutes

Total Time for Small Group: 30 minutes

Total of 120 min. 

We are working on a specific breakdown of what that look likes to match the weekly planning example below. Stay tuned! 

Weekly Planning Example

MyView Learning Letter #2-Culture of Learning

 

Culture of Learning! 

As a lifelong lover of learning, I am ecstatic and honestly, really nerding out, about how much I get to learn about our new curriculum. I also realize we are all not on a quest to learn new things. However, with the new journey we are about to embark on, we are ALL going to be learning about how the science of reading is embedded into our new curriculum, Savvas MyView. (The curriculum could also be referred to as HQIM or high-quality instructional materials.) 

Here is my goal for us all during this time of learning -

The teachers will feel trusted as professionals to utilize the HQIM the way it was designed and intended. They will fail, learn, and grow throughout the learning year. Teachers will have time and space to grapple with the curriculum and feel they have permission to make mistakes while they are learning.

And my first step in helping you is....the MyView Learning Literacy Letter. In the MyView Learning Literacy Letter, I will share helpful nuggets of information to help us learn more about next year. I am going to try to publish them as often as possible but only send the link once a week via district email. Let me know what you want to learn by sending me a message in the contact form on the right of this post. 

Remember, no matter how much you like learning or not, change is hard. Trust the process. Focus on what you can control. 

Yours in learning, Haley

MyView FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions 

This blog post will be all about the questions most often asked and updated at least once a week. Newer questions will be posted at the top. 

Can we use resources like Flocabulary, Nearpod, Epic, Newsela, Scholastic, and/or Readworks?

We are only allowed to use core programs and supplemental resources that have been approved by VDOE. All things must be grounded in evidence based literacy instruction (EBLI) backed by science based reading research (SBRR).

This is directly from the HQIM Playbook, "The Virginia Literacy Act requires that all Virginia school systems must adopt HQIM for all k-5 classrooms no later than the 2024-25 school year. This shift requires all school leaders to assess current practices and ensure that the high-quality materials are selected, adopted, purchased and used. To this point, educators in VA have been accustomed to utilizing a blend of adopted school materials, their own homemade instructional resources, and lesson content from online sources like Pinterest or Teachers Pay Teachers. Moving forward, all schools and educators are being asked to exclusively use the HQIM adopted by their division. This means daily lessons must be grounded in adopted materials, and leaders should be able to walk through classrooms and see every teacher using the materials purchased. In literacy in particular, students need access to a curriculum that builds on a systematic sequence in foundational skills and builds coherently grade-to-grade on knowledge-building topics. There is a compelling body of evidence that shows that HQIM not only provides this coherent sequence but leads to better outcomes for students." (pg. 1) 

MyView has A LOT of resources and while it will be a year of trusting the core curriculum. If you find that you cannot find what you need, please email me or ask your reading coach and she will reach out to me. Share what you need and why you need it. 

Do we use Google Classroom or Canvas?

We will be using Canvas in grades 3-5.

Can I use my own texts instead of the ones in MyView?

For right now, we are going to stick with the novels and texts that MyView provides and in the next few weeks, we will learn more about those texts. The new standards now require text complexity. Please refer to the back of the standards, after grade 12 on page 105, for more information on how that works. They are attached. If you wanted to, I would look up the lexile level on the texts you want to use as a starting point. Then we can have further conversations. 

Will we be using any online programs? MyView has some online games, but we will not be using Freckle or Waterford. We will be using Lexia Power Up for intervention and that may require some classroom time on the program. More information will be coming. 

Will we get hard copies of the new standards? Yes! Will the new standards be printed into our new Teacher Editions? No. We are working on a correlation document. However, the new standards will be added to the digital versions online in December or January. 

When will we get our hands on hard copies of the materials? We should have them by the beginning of August. In the meantime, you can explore here:

1. Visit savvas.com/myViewRealize

2. Enter the credentials below

Username: myView2025EarlyReview

Password: Welcome!

NOTE: Password is case sensitive

How will students be leveled in reading? Actually, students will no longer be leveled. Instead, assessments will be given and skills will be identified as high, medium, or low risk. Then, small groups will be pulled based on the skills needed by students starting with those at high risk. This is similar to conferencing where we met with students who were emergency, then at-risk, then proficient. 

If we have small group time again, will I meet with every group, every day? No, and this is going to be a major shift that we will learn more about in the coming months. However, it will be similar to conferencing. Instead of pulling one student at a time, you may pull a small group. Not every student needs to be met every single day. 

MyView Learning Letter #1

New Literacy Curriculum for Grades K-5 for Next School Year! 

Great news! We would like to announce that our new literacy curriculum for the 24-25 School Year will be myView Literacy by Savvas. :) If you would like to learn more about the curriculum and/or get a head start on training, please check out a new page on the #isleREAD#isleWRITE website. There is a PD course in Frontline where you can register and start earning PD points for recertification. We recommend that the videos are watched before our August Program Activation! 

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out! In addition to your wonders, I would love to hear from you about your excitement! On a scale of 1-10, how enthusiastic are you about the decision to adopt a new literacy core curriculum? 

My email is hcooprider@iwcs.k12.va.us or call my direct line, 757-357-0758. You can also send me a message on the right of this post! 

I am here to help make sure this is the smoothest transition possible!

Yours in learning, 

Haley