Standards

We are committed to:

• Learning as a challenging process of choice, discovery, change and growth for all
• Inspiring the development and sharing of everyone’s unique gifts and talents
• Providing a learning community that nurtures and integrates social, emotional, physical and academic development

At Beecher Road School, the Common Core Standards help:

• Emphasize higher level reading comprehension skills
• Place equal weight on reading and writing
• Stress the importance of critical citizenship
• Emphasize reading through increasingly complex texts
• Convey that intellectual growth occurs across years and across disciplines
• Support cross/curricular literacy teaching
• Emphasize more rigorous problem solving
• Focus on perseverance and in-depth thinking
• Provide both content and practice standards
• Emphasize that every student needs access to this work

PARENT ROADMAPS TO THE STANDARDS

COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS