"Common Core in Action" Reflection

This article introduces the concept of the LDC, or Literacy Design Collaborative. This is simply a process in line with the Common Core that helps students develop better literacy and comprehension skill, especially for the areas of science and history. The article follows two teachers who implemented this procedure in their classrooms and saw phenomenal results. The LDC enforces very research based writing and uses this to accompany the learning done in class. The LDC is great, the Common Core is great, and whatever else new the school system wants to create is great, but I am almost sick of seeing new principles come out when every school is so far from being at the same point in the process of switching to Common Core. This was created in order for their to be uniformity across the United States, and I can attest to the fact that it is a current disaster. For example, these high school students are doing intense critical thinking, advanced writing, and obtaining crucial literacy skills. They are currently at about the same level I am as a college sophomore. Contrastingly, my high school brother is being talked at by the teachers and has never before heard the term Common Core before. So when I read these articles of these prized teachers who "invented" their own lessons for the Common Core, I want to react by saying "wait for the rest of us."