Yesterday I was feeling a little overwhelmed thinking about the new social studies standards and all the work that has to get done in order to create guides and assessments that will help support our teachers. Luckily, someone from my team came into my office and asked some really great questions that helped me start thinking about what my next steps should be. As I started brainstorming (complete with color-coded sticky notes), I kept coming back to three main thoughts. And, of course, these thoughts just brought up more questions to be answered... If we create a curriculum guide that looks like most have looked, then teachers will teach like they have been teaching. Whatever we create needs to have a structure that reflects and supports the shift to inquiry-based learning. How can we create guides that support both new teachers and veteran teachers? How can we give examples while avoiding some teachers and admin using those as step-by-step plans that do not take into ac...