Anyone out there dealing with Common Core [View all]

[Lifelong Protester]

Standards in their state and willing to talk about how it might be going?

I am a Wisconsin teacher, admin., and curriculum director in a small rural district. I was handed 10# of paper in a binder yesterday and told that the Common Core Standards, as it relates to "what it means and how we are going to implement" was worked out/on by the DPIs of WI and NC.

PM me if you have any inside stories on how this is working in your state. In our state, we are going to have to totally revamp our curriculum, MAINLY BY PUSHING IT DOWN A YEAR. I'm already fielding complaints from parents about the amount of work we expect our primary students to do. What was kindergarten even LAST YEAR is gone. That's now preschool.

And forget poetry, 50% of literature, anything in my estimation that makes it worthwhile for a kid to come to school-GONE. We have to get kids ready to work! We have to get them ready for college! (This last one is a heading all the way down to kindergarten). Teachers PreK-4, already licensed, teaching, products of great pre-service programs, will now have to take another TEST to prove that they can teach. Apparently my years as a principal are worth nothing in evaluating teachers. (Our district blows the doors off of the standardized tests we take, have a high graduation rate, and meet criteria for a school that works, BTW).

I'd like to talk. And not through anyone's state dpi website.