A lot has been happening on the voluntary national standards front. I think this is potentially a big deal for us. We have aligned our work with state standards and we are embedding Classroom 10 learning into our units with a focus on our Outcomes and Indicators, habits of mind, and thinking skills. I am concerned what a potential new set of standards will do to this work and the capacity for us to once again adjust to new learning outcomes. We have done this already many times with the multiple revisions to or state standards.
On this post from the Core Knowledge blog there is a link to a draft of the proposed standards. I have not yet reviewed them and will not have the opportunity for at least another week as I prepare for our Board and Administrator retreats that start next Friday. Here are also two other posts from the same blog that continue the debate. They are here and here. The draft standards were officially released today.
I would be interested in your thinking about this possibility now that you can see the draft. As a teacher, how would you respond to a national set of standards in reading and mathematics? As an administrator, what do you see as the positive and negative possibilities of this potential requirement?
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