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Teachers: Critical Questions to ask at Faculty Meetings this school year. Part One: Common Core « @ the chalk face

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Teachers: Critical Questions to ask at Faculty Meetings this school year. Part One: Common Core

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August 13, 2012 by Chris Cerrone

As teachers head back to their schools this fall, it is time for educators to ask questions at faculty meetings when presented with Common Core and Data-driven Instruction. Too often we educators sit back say nothing when new administrative goals and initiatives are thrown at us.  Veteran teachers will say we have been through this before and the new program’s time will pass.  I have witnessed this in my sixteen years in my suburban district.  Every time a new Curriculum Director is hired we forget about previous measures and reinvent the wheel again.  Many