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Great Expectations: Transforming Practice Through Common Core Implementation — Whole Child Education

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Great Expectations: Transforming Practice Through Common Core Implementation

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We as educators have a unique opportunity to reset the playing field and make the Common Core State Standards work for us. We can implement the standards, align them to a whole child approach to education, and ensure that both support and enhance each other to prepare students for college, career, and citizenship success. The Common Core standards and a whole child approach are not opposites, and they do not and should not have to be in opposition. In fact, they're interdependent. So much so, that they require each other in order to be successful.
Now is the time for us to take control and become empowered in the process. The outcomes will depend onwhat we decide to do for the Common Core standards within a whole child approach and how we decide to do it. In this episode, host Molly McCloskey and our guests discuss how our schools are working to better and more comprehensively support student learning so that they meet these enhanced expectations. You'll hear from
  • Arnold Fege, president of Public Advocacy for Kids and, recently, director of public engagement and