Eastern Upstate Teacher Center Consortium Spring 2012

A View from The Woods in Inlet

Thank you to the Eastern Upstate Teacher Center Directors for inviting us to join you at your Spring Consortium.  We enjoyed shifting to the Common Core with all of you and hope you were able to take away some ideas, strategies and tools for implementation in support of your teachers. The evening at The Woods was lovely. To the right is a picture we took from the shoreline just before dinner.  Absolutely breathtaking! 

As we all make the shifts to the Common Core, we begin to realize that we already have many things in place, and the "shifts" are not quite as daunting as we may have thought.  There is still plenty to learn, but if we can set aside some of the things that we already have in place, we realize we are not "reinventing the wheel," but rather adding a bit of air in hopes of creating more effective and efficient journey for our students and ourselves. 

APPR, Common Core, SLO.... It is all a bit overwhelming. Teachers will certainly need the safety and support zone that Teacher Centers can provide as they take on these new challenges to their already hectic professional lives.