Sunday: essential questions = interest based bargaining

Our district is in the process of developing common assessments for a core curriculum that was established last year. The key to formulating these assessments is applying essential questions to the core curriculum. This ties into interest based bargaining in that you have to ask those simple questions that have complex answers that ultimately get at what the big ideas are. This is interest based bargaining. Everyone must be willing to sit at the table, abide by some basic norms, be committed to the process in order to get at the big issues that effect everyone.