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Common Core: 7 Recommendations for Effective Implementation -- THE Journal - 4 views

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  • , "Fulfilling the Promise of the Common Core State Standards: Moving from Adoption to Implementation to Sustainability," identified challenges and best practices for Common Core implementation and offered recommendations for easing the transition from state to common standards
  • "Educators are unclear about where to focus their instructional efforts, and many school leaders are overwhelmed by trying to lead multiple, major reform efforts and uncertain about where to direct professional development. Furthermore, the simultaneous reforms have exceeded the capacity of most state and local education agencies, compromising educators' ability to best implement any reform." according to the report.
  • As a consequence, the report's authors argued, teachers are "charging ahead" with their own inadequately informed approaches to blending state and common standards, such as the "crosswalk approach," in which educators try to correlate verbiage in the Common Core standards with their own state standards to determine whether the standard has been taught.
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  • according to the report, this approach "fails to adequately capture the level of content mastery, rigor, and depth of change necessary to meet the expectations of college and career readiness in the Common Core standards."
  • the report identified several other challenges affecting implementation:
  • Ongoing budget crises at the state and local level;
  • The misconception that the Common Core State Standards are federal standards;
  • Initiative fatigue on the part of teachers in the midst of simultaneous and sometimes conflicting educational policy shifts;
  • The need to modify teacher preparation programs;
  • The need for colleges and universities to adapt their admissions practices based on the changes happening at the K-12 level; and
  • Communications between state agencies and educators.
  • Educators themselves also identified several concerns, including the need for:
  • Information about how Common Core implementation will affect policies governing their careers and teaching practices;
  • Access to model lessons, resources, and professional development;
  • Time for planning; and
  • Information about Common Core assessments and the technologies that will be required to implement them.
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