Mary Lou Baker asked:
"How can we best prepare our students for the common core in language arts?"
I have been no fan of the Common Core standards (see The Best Articles Sharing Concerns About Common Core Standards). However, one of the key lessons I learned in my nineteen year community organizing career was that, though we should always recognize the tension inherent in "the world as we'd like it to be" and "the world as it is," living in the former seldom leads to success in the latter. The Common Core is the reality for most of us, and I've begun collecting the most useful resources for implementing them.
This two-part series will be contributing to that collection. In addition to guest responses, I hope readers will continue to offer their own suggestions. I'll be including them in the final post of this series.
Today's post will feature commentaries from educator/authors Christopher Lehman, Amy Benjamin and Ben Curran.
Response From Christopher Lehman
Christopher Lehman is author of several books including his newest on more student-centered research instruction, Energize Research Reading and Writing. He is a national speaker and a Senior Staff Developer at the Reading and Writing Project at Teachers College, Columbia University. Follow him on Twitter, @iChrisLehman, and at his blog:
