Teachers' and Principals' Perspectives: Standards Implementation in California's Schools

• In Event: Perceptions and Identities in Learning Environments

Abstract

Since 2012, the implementation of revised academic standards, based on the Common Core State Standards, in California has taken place at the same time as concerted efforts to substantially modify the state’s K–12 funding model, implement a significant shift toward local control, and retool summative assessments. The implication has been that internal professional learning systems and structures needed to be designed and redesigned to support these major changes. In this paper, we present data that describes how the professional learning systems and structures have changed for some California’s educators in recent years: organization of teachers within schools as professional learning hubs, management by school principals of the instructional mission, and navigation by curriculum and instruction teams.

Authors

• Neal D. Finkelstein, WestEd

• Reino Makkonen, WestEd