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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.
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Bruce Taylor began working with teachers and kids in the mid 1970s as an avocation to his career as an arts professional. During a thirty-year career as a director and manager for numerous dance, theatre and opera companies, he increased his involvement with educators demonstrating how acquiring the elements of artistic practice were valuable for anyone, not just future artists. In this, his work was recognized in the document “Champions of Change,” appearances on PBS and NPR and a stint as a cultural envoy for the U.S. Department of State. He summed up much of what he learned in his first book The Arts Equation: A Common Sense Approach to Arts Education. Finally, he decided to shift the focus of his professional life to working full time as an arts educator. When Common Core State Standards came along, Mr. Taylor immediately recognized that many of those very same thinking skills were embedded throughout the Common Core and could form the basis of a more easily accessible approach to it. After testing out his theory with high school students on Chicago’s South Side, he went on the road to share his approach with other arts specialists. Positive response was strong, immediate, and led to him being designated an “expert” on the subject by the PARCC consortium’s Educator Leadership Cadre. This led to his second volume, Common Sense Arts Standards: How the Arts Can Thrive in an Era of Common Core. Many of school district administrators who invited him to conduct his workshops on the arts asked him back to expand on his approach to Common Core to include other subject areas which, in turn, resulted in this present publication Common Sense Common Core: Finding Common Ground of Clarity and Simplicity. Bruce is married and has two children, Ian, 24 and Kyra, 28 who were his “18 year lab experiments” and to whom he is most grateful for putting up with his constant questions.
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Common Sense Common Core: Finding Common Ground of Clarity and Simplicity
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CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015
ISBN 10: 1506128939
ISBN 13: 9781506128931
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