{"id":19955,"date":"2013-08-23T10:35:22","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T14:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=19955"},"modified":"2013-08-23T10:35:22","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T14:35:22","slug":"three-questions-for-a-superintendent-about-common-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/08\/23\/three-questions-for-a-superintendent-about-common-core\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Questions For A Superintendent About Common Core"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19957\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Joseph Joyner, superintendent for St. Johns County School District\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/08\/Joyner.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19957\" alt=\"Joseph Joyner, superintendent for St. Johns County School District\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/08\/Joyner-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/08\/Joyner-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/08\/Joyner-620x413.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Karelia Arauz \/ StateImpact Florida<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joseph Joyner, superintendent for St. Johns County School District<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here\u2019s another round of Q &amp; A with educators about the switch to Common Core standards.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/08\/20\/three-questions-for-teachers-about-common-core-standards-part-1\/\">Part 1 is here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/08\/21\/three-questions-for-teachers-about-common-core-standards-part-2\/\">part 2 is here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/08\/22\/three-questions-for-teachers-about-common-core-standards-part-3\/\">part 3 is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Name:<\/strong> Joseph Joyner<\/p>\n<p><strong>Job:<\/strong> Superintendent of the St. Johns County School District<\/p>\n<p class=\"question\"><span class=\"abbr\">Q: <\/span>How well prepared do you feel for the Common Core?<\/p>\n<p class=\"answer\"><span class=\"abbr\">A: <\/span>Better than a year ago. We\u2019re not there yet, I would say we\u2019re probably 50% there. I am excited about it. It\u2019s going to take a lot of training on the part of teachers and parents, but I think we\u2019re a good ways there and I think we\u2019ll be there in \u201814, \u201815.<\/p>\n<p class=\"answer\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"question\"><span class=\"abbr\">Q: <\/span>Do you think it\u2019s an improvement?<\/p>\n<p class=\"answer\"><span class=\"abbr\">A: <\/span>Common Core? Absolutely. Absolutely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"answer\">Florida had, you know, a million standards. And they say they were a mile wide and an inch deep. It was like the goal was \u201chow heavy could your standards book be?\u201d as opposed the depth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"answer\">Common Core has really turned that around. It\u2019s less standards, it\u2019s much more rigorous. What we expect of children is much higher. It\u2019s going to require a lot more on the part of educators but it\u2019s absolutely the right thing to do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"answer\"><div class=\"related-content alignright\"><h4 class=\"related-header\">Related<\/h4><div class=\"links\"><h5>Posts<\/h5><ul><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/08\/20\/three-questions-for-teachers-about-common-core-standards-part-1\/\">Three Questions For Teachers About Common Core Standards, Part 1<\/a><\/li><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/08\/21\/three-questions-for-teachers-about-common-core-standards-part-2\/\">Three Questions For Teachers About Common Core Standards, Part 2<\/a><\/li><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/08\/22\/three-questions-for-teachers-about-common-core-standards-part-3\/\">Three Questions For Teachers About Common Core Standards, Part 3<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"topics\"><h5>Topics<\/h5><p class=\"topic\"><a href=\"\"><\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<p class=\"question\"><span class=\"abbr\">Q: <\/span>How have the Common Core standards changed the way that you do your job?<\/p>\n<p class=\"answer\"><span class=\"abbr\">A: <\/span>I think everything I look at when it comes to instruction is now focused on the Common Core\u2014from the instructional materials to staffing, training and development. Buying instructional materials, for instance: you\u2019re not going to buy anything that doesn\u2019t directly relate back to Common Core.<\/p>\n<p class=\"answer\">What you create and provide in the guidance\u2014we call them curriculum maps, which is sort of a map for both the standards and the pacing that we give to teachers\u2014it\u2019s all based on the Common Core now. So our scope and sequence, our focus, everything that we do, our instructional practices (which is a big a piece of that), how we teach\u2014is also focused around it. It has become a major driver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s another round of Q &amp; A with educators about the switch to Common Core standards.\u00a0Part 1 is here, part 2 is here, and part 3 is here. Name: Joseph Joyner Job: Superintendent of the St. Johns County School District Q: How well prepared do you feel for the Common Core? A: Better than a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[1157,1115,1067,1004],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19955"}],"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=19955"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19967,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19955\/revisions\/19967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}