Mindset Works’ Blog

The Common Core Standards are here!  By 2014, K-12 educators all across America will be teaching their students identical standards. From California to North Carolina, school districts are already providing in-service workshops to prepare their teachers for the inevitable. As I anticipate my district’s first training in August, I will undoubtedly greet the new standards with confidence. I am ready for whatever lies ahead because I have learned through experience how to create a classroom where kids work hard to learn the standards because they want to, not because they have to.