I, for one, am very happy to hear this and hope that it continues.
Sadly, where I substitute, they are still training all the teachers in
"direct instruction" and everything revolves around test scores, with
increasing numbers of tests every year, both standardized and
district-created, and piles of test prep materials growing bigger every
year, with principals and superintendent touting "research" that
supports things like Saxon Math and Direct Instruction and data driven
curriculum.
Renee
On May 29, 2012, at 4:55 PM, Betty Laughlin wrote:
I just went to a workshop for my district where they said the same
thing! Hooray!
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On May 28, 2012, at 9:02 PM, "Tracy Gaestel" <aj...@lafn.org> wrote:
For all of you in this situation, hang in there. Last week our
superintendent came to a meeting of people selected to work on aligning
our curriculum to the Common Core Standards. He wanted to tell us
personally that whatever had happened in the past, we were now to treat
the text books as tools to help us plan lessons that help our students
achieve proficiency on the grade level standards. The pendulum is
swinging back. I was afraid that this day would never come. (He had
to
come because many of the teachers couldn't believe what the presenters
were telling us) Teach? We don't need to be on the same page? We
don't
even have to use the same stories? (Someone even asked "how can we do
that?") I faintly heard the Hallelujah chorus in the background and I
had
to stop myself from dancing in the auditorium.
"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in
a thing makes it happen."
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
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