Third in a series
Re “‘What Is It Our Kids Cannot Afford Not to Know?’”
With the first School Board meeting of the fall term – introducing Common Core — unfolding this evening at 7 in Council Chambers, Supt. Dave LaRose arrived at the second of four standards-based questions he said are critical to understanding the new year.
After exploring the opening inquiry, “What is it our kids cannot afford not to know? What is positively fundamental?” question No. 2 asked:
“How will we know if they know that?
“How do we work together, for example, in a grade-level team so that if we have these standards? Obviously working with Common Core,” said Mr. LaRose, “the timing has been good for us. Not only are we looking for something we have to do, but our lens is how do we harness that into something positive?
“When we are implementing Common Core standards, how are we looking at this work, learning it, understanding it, unpackaging it together, but then also identifying what is absolutely, positively essential.
“You can’t have one commitment in one classroom different from that commitment across the hall, and down the hall, and maybe even down the road.
“If it is fundamental for one 8-year-old Culver City child at one school, or in one classroom,” said Mr. LaRose, “it needs to be consistent across the board.
“We need to measure that.”
(To be continued)
