{"id":19420,"date":"2013-07-05T08:46:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T12:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=19420"},"modified":"2013-07-08T11:20:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T15:20:02","slug":"why-one-principal-thinks-the-common-core-is-part-of-an-equitable-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/07\/05\/why-one-principal-thinks-the-common-core-is-part-of-an-equitable-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Why One Principal Thinks The Common Core Is Part Of An Equitable Education"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Karelia Arauz \/ StateImpact Florida<\/p>

Principal Angela Maxey is ready for the Common Core at Sallye B. Mathis Elementary School in Duval County.<\/p><\/div>\n

Florida schools have just one more academic year to phase in a new set of education standards under the Common Core<\/a>\u2014and Principal Angela Maxey is ready.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m truly a proponent for standards-based Common Core education. I\u2019m passionate,\u201d says Maxey, who works at Sallye B. Mathis Elementary School<\/a> in Duval County.<\/p>\n

Her school is a math, science and pre-engineering (STEM<\/a>\u00a0curriculum) magnet school where 90 percent of students qualify for free and reduced lunch. For Maxey, the Common Core is about more than new benchmarks.<\/p>\n

\u201cEducation, to me, levels the playing field,\u201d says Maxey.<\/p>\n

Maxey spoke with StateImpact Florida for part of our series on how educators feel about the Common Core. Here\u2019s what she had to say:\u00a0<\/p>\n

Q:\u00a0<\/span>How well prepared do you feel for the Common Core?<\/b><\/p>\n

A:\u00a0<\/span>I think I\u2019m prepared for the Common Core\u2014as far as instructionally. There\u2019s still more that I can learn. We went through some state training. I feel comfortable with it. But I think as an educator if I say I know it all, I would be lying. We\u2019re always in a constant process of learning.<\/p>\n

I think the key to having an understanding of what it is in [the school] is how to deliver it instructionally to the students. That\u2019s the role my teachers play. And that\u2019s where I need to make sure that I\u2019m providing them the development that is embedded\u2014to make sure that they\u2019re doing and delivering the instruction appropriately.<\/p>\n

Q:\u00a0<\/span>Do you think it\u2019s an improvement?<\/b><\/p>\n

A:\u00a0<\/span>Yeah, I like the Common Core.<\/p>\n

I mean I\u2019ll put it like this: It\u2019s called the Common Core, but I still feel it\u2019s standards-based instruction. I believe nationwide, state-to-state, we\u2019re all going to have a baseline of where our children should be and where we want them to strive to be.<\/p>\n

Q: <\/span>How have the standards changed the way that you do your job?<\/p>\n

A: <\/span>I remember when we had PPOs, called \u201cPupil Progression Objectives.\u201d Then we went to just having student objectives. Now we\u2019re at the Common Core.<\/p>\n

Again, it provides direction of where we should be heading instructionally. I think it gives us a big picture.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m originally from another state. The biggest thing is, if I\u2019m in the state of Florida, I also know that children in another state are also learning this information. So it\u2019s leveling the playing field and closing the achievement gap. No matter where you\u2019re at, no matter what socioeconomic level you\u2019re working on, no matter where you grew up\u2026 this is what every child at first grade should know no matter what.<\/p>\n

So now we do not have, as an educator, an excuse for not educating all children the same way.\u00a0I think that every child should have the right and the opportunity to a fair, equitable education.<\/p>\n

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Florida schools have just one more academic year to phase in a new set of education standards under the Common Core\u2014and Principal Angela Maxey is ready. \u201cI\u2019m truly a proponent for standards-based Common Core education. I\u2019m passionate,\u201d says Maxey, who works at Sallye B. Mathis Elementary School in Duval County. Her school is a math, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,16],"tags":[852,1157,851],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19420"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19427,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19420\/revisions\/19427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}