Common Core at Ground-level
Many teachers at my site were scrambling to get more PD hours as the school year winds down, so we had a presentation from a fellow teacher who is on the district’s Common Core working group. She’s a great teacher. She does ELD and intervention pull-outs part-time, and fills in with subbing on her off days. I’ve shared a bit of what I’ve found and written with her already. The scary part is how different what I’m hearing at the “macro” level is compared with what is disseminated at the local level. The focus was on the ELA standards.
The nice part was that most of the discussion was about how we would assess in our classrooms, and at the