Common Sense Common Core: Finding Common Ground of Clarity and Simplicity

By Bruce D. Taylor

On June 2nd., 2010, Common Core State Standards were adopted throughout the country. Since then, education policy-makers have published vast amounts of overly complicated compilations of guidelines, graphs, Venn diagrams, charts, and step by step instructions that have left many front line educators frustrated, angry, overwhelmed and demoralized. This book clarifies and simplifies a common approach to Common Core that demonstrates how the skills inherent in this new paradigm for teaching and learning can contribute to overall student success, not just in academics, but in life as well.In our increasingly complex, conceptual and globalized world a focus on access, delivery, and retention of content is no longer as important as an ability to use the unlimited amount of content that is instantly available literally at one's finger tips through technologies that evolve at a blistering pace. This reality will challenge students' ability to imagine things that do not exist, create products and methods that matter to others, and communicate effectively with people in a variety of cultures and from different backgrounds.The content of this book emerged from dozens of workshops the author has conducted around the country on how to relieve the anxieties that educators presently have regarding the Core. Thousands of evaluations filled out by attendees following these workshops encouraged Mr. Taylor to put some of the basic principles of his approach in the form of a book.Additional motivation was provided by the success of his previous publication, "Common Sense Arts Standards: How the Arts Can Thrive in an Era of Common Core."Within the coming decade, Mr. Taylor predicts that the next iteration of school reform will require that students develop their creativity in order to function in a society of ideas and synthesis. This book, and its companion volume on the Arts, are not only valuable resources for today, but for the future as well.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1506128939
• ISBN13: 9781506128931
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"