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While the Common Core couldn't be clearer about what to teach, they never quite tackle how to teach. That's what makes Inquiring into the Common Core such an essential resource.
Student Inquiry and the Common Core: The Story of Mary
Student Inquiry and the Common Core: The Story of Mary
Rethinking curricula as inquiry is one of the best ways we can teach essential knowledge and make content and skills infinitely more meaningful.
— Steven Wolk (2008, p. 116)
Like her colleague Lareal, Mary Wright was enjoying a fabulous career as a teacher at Woodson Elementary School. Mary loved her work. As a second-career teacher who previously worked as a journalist, Mary's position at Woodson as the fourth-grade language arts/social studies teacher allowed her to share her passion for writing with young learners all day long. Mary met three groups of approximately twenty-five learners each for writing and language arts instruction every day and was charged with ...
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