An English professor told a Gainesville audience Tuesday night that educators, including herself, were heavily involved in the development of Common Core standards but they also were “passionate” about their work.
“Part of the reason we believe in what we’re doing is because these standards are an opportunity for us … in a lot of different ways,” said Jennifer Wunder, who spoke for nearly an hour during a public hearing at Gainesville High School.
She likened the standards to bowling pins and “there’s a lot of ways to get that (bowling) ball down that lane.”
“What we’re trying to do is give our teachers the ability to help our students get those balls down those lanes in the ways that work best,” said Wunder, who teaches at Georgia Gwinnett College in Lawrenceville. “For those students and teachers, we’re trying to say, ‘Knock those pins down. How you get the ball down the lane matters less.’”
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