“I can be nothing but optimistic for the chances of kids in this city,” Michael Casserly, executive director of the Council of the Great City Schools, told me last week as we discussed the new three-year academic plan D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson is expected to roll out this month. I called Casserly after having breakfast with Henderson at Ted’s Bulletin. She and I had talked about a bunch of things, including the event some have called the “Academy Awards for teachers” being held Monday at the Kennedy Center. But what captured my imagination, making me deliriously excited, was our conversation about “common core” curricula development and implementation in which she and others in DCPS have been involved. If all goes well, it will revolutionize classroom instruction while equalizing the quality of education.
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