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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