Curriculum Associates reviews

Contrived: It's true. They send emails for employees to write fake reviews to balance out the sincere ones. Bad management: CA seems like a good place to work from the outside but once you're there and see their processes - they need a ton of work. With my department, management was sloppy. They focused on what they needed to get done on their plate but were lousy managers. I knew it wasn't the place for me after the first month. No clear goals: With every meeting I was in, projects did not have a clear direction or deadline. People who needed to be in office were always sick or on a yacht in Ibiza. Projects often got cancelled or delayed until oblivion. Sure, if you're okay with incompetent work - you can continue to work this way. But I'm not about that.

I used to love working here. I felt valued and important to CA's crucial mission to support educators and students. Now, I just feel like another cog in the machine. The leadership they've elevated is focused more on people who will drive metrics rather than cultivate talent and support educators effectively. They're hiring more and more non-teachers and drilling down on us to squeeze every penny from our expenses and every penny from schools to repay our investors. Until about a year ago I was begging people to come work with me at CA. Now, I'd tell them to stay where they are. My work goes entirely unnoticed, which never used to be the case.