Promising Futures Reflection

This text is basically the common core that teachers must know, where as the CCSS are what students must know. It seems like it has wonderful ideas for how to better equip students in Maine with a better education and make working conditions for teachers better and more feasible. I think it covers a lot of material that is involved with retaining students in high schools and making their time productive and fruitful in high school. I also believe that it helps to hold administrators accountable for providing professional development for teachers, and it states it will help to provide ample planning time for teachers to be prepared to teach. 

The only problem is how this will actually take effect and be enforced. This was published in 1998, and I am very curious to see how things have changed. In the book, it talks about how students should have an teacher that they can make very individualized connections with so that it will help them succeed in high school. Moreover that students will have someone to fall back on in the school that they can go see for help at any time. This is something that teachers should always be expressing and offering to their students, and it is something that I will certainly do when I am a teacher.

Overall I believe this text has a lot of rich ideas in it and I hope they were able to be put into effect. Many of them seem like they were given the situation of my high school experience; however, was it put into effect everywhere in the state?