Fierce Resource:Tackling Common Core… Collaboratively

This week’s featured piece was first published on the Education Week website on the Learning Forward PD Watch blog.

You might be familiar with the Learning Forward PD Watch blog already, as a Fierce blog partner. We currently collaborate by both contributing to their site as well as having author Stephanie Hirsch contribute regular blog posts on the Fierce blog.

In this piece, Tackling Common Core…Collaboratively, author Stephanie Hirsch highlights Douglas County School System:

“Teachers in the Douglas County School System have found a way to manage three challenges that are overwhelming many educators across the country: simultaneously implementing new teacher evaluation systems, the Common Core State Standards, and new student assessments.”

Fierce is dedicated to transforming the conversations educators are having with both each other and their students. This piece highlights that at the core of Douglas County’s success is their willingness to collaborate and communicate openly.

We chose to highlight this blog because we often hear educators through Fierce in the Schools discuss these challenges and the desire to overcome them.

To read the full blog click here.