{"id":187,"date":"2014-10-06T12:31:56","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T12:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mocoedblog.org\/?p=187"},"modified":"2014-10-06T12:31:56","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T12:31:56","slug":"kristin-trible-supporting-common-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mocoedblog.org\/?p=187","title":{"rendered":"Kristin Trible: Supporting Common Core"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Responding to a Question from MoCoEdBlog on Common Core Standards.<\/strong> \u00a0The MCPS web site does not say much about \u201cCommon Core\u201d standards but instead focuses on its own \u201cCurriculum 2.0\u201d and has teachers and students learning new standards <em>through<\/em> the county\u2019s developing curriculum and teacher training.\u00a0 Do you support the Common Core?\u00a0 Is MCPS doing a good job of navigating the new standards?\u00a0 And, how would you direct them to do it differently?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Response:\u00a0 <\/strong>I support the Common Core as it is a unique opportunity to ensure that educational standards are part of the national conversation and that we continue to prioritize the education of our children.\u00a0 The other day, I saw someone share a poorly written test and erroneously blame the Common Core standards.\u00a0 We continue to see individuals become confused between standards, curriculum, and testing.\u00a0 It is unfortunate inaccuracies such as this one that are taking away from a truly important conversation on educational standards and, just as importantly, what methods we will put in place to gather feedback and determine how to improve upon them in the future.\u00a0\u00a0 The current standards may not yet be perfect but it is up to each school system to work with the standards and implement a strong, comprehensive curriculum that meets <em>or exceeds<\/em> those standards.\u00a0 MCPS has had its share of missteps in the implementation, but change was going to be difficult no matter what.\u00a0 It\u2019s time to move forward and ensure our teachers are well supported and enthusiastic about teaching in a new manner.\u00a0 If slowing down is appropriate, we can slow down.\u00a0 I would not support turning back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to a Question from MoCoEdBlog on Common Core Standards. \u00a0The MCPS web site does not say much about \u201cCommon Core\u201d standards but instead focuses on its own \u201cCurriculum 2.0\u201d and has teachers and students learning new standards through the county\u2019s developing curriculum and teacher training.\u00a0 Do you support the Common Core?\u00a0 Is MCPS doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,13,10,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mocoedblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mocoedblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mocoedblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mocoedblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mocoedblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mocoedblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/mocoedblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mocoedblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mocoedblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mocoedblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}