Connected Mathematics 3

My district this year adopted the Connected Mathematics 3 curriculum.  We had our official 'get to know you' session with the curriculum and a representative Monday after the students left for the day. Let's talk about overload!

So here are a few things that I found to be interesting and terrifying all at the same time. 

• Every lesson has a Launch, Explore and Summarize
• Scaffolding thought about
• You can assign students lessons
• The student can 'write' and save work in their digital book
• You can comment and message students
• Concepts are throughout the curriculum, not just seen once

I have not had much time since Monday to explore more but I am excited about implementing this curriculum this year.  It won't be easy but, if it were easy, everybody would be doing it!

Anybody have any tips or tricks to using CMP3?  All and everything is greatly appreciated.