On Wednesday I attended a webinar titled Pearson Common Core Institute: Creating Rich Instructional Tasks: The Common Core in Grades 6 - 12. Since my in-house training in CCSS has been pretty thorough, much of this was stuff I already know. However, the presenters did emphasize an interesting point. They noted that many districts had gone into a flurry and rewritten their curricula from the ground up as a response to CCSS, and they said that that was absolutely the WRONG approach. They recommended, instead, that districts should keep their old curricula, but tweak them for alignment with standards.
And I can't help thinking that this is great advice, but way too late to help me. Our district went full-steam into throwing out the baby with the bathwater, and the bathtub for good measure. My best-loved curriculum units vanished, and much of what we teach now is well-aligned but feels hollow.
Ah, well. It is what it is. Can't go backwards, but maybe the road twists back around to get to a good place.
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