> “[Teachers] are woefully unprepared [for] engaging in inquiry driven lessons. [...] instructional changes entailed by NGSS are too big to internalize in isola

> “[Teachers] are woefully unprepared [for] engaging in inquiry driven lessons. [...] instructional changes entailed by NGSS are too big to internalize in isolated chunks of professional development. I think this is currently the main obstacle with the CCSSM and NGSS. The structure and logic of the news standards are good, but they're new so it will take some time for teachers to adjust. We need better course plans, better textbooks for teachers, better textbooks for students, and better exercise frameworks. We can't look to mainstream publishers to provide this, because they're large, slow, and extractive organizations. Therefore, this seismic shift in the structure and material taught represents a tremendous opportunity for OER to come in and eat the big publishers lunch, e.g. [1]. Our company (Minireference Co.) is currently focussed on university-level textbooks so we can't "attack" the high-school market, but we're happy to share technology and insights with anyone out there who is working on OER for primary/middle/high school. [1] State-sponsored content push to create common-core-aligned textbooks for high schools: http://k12oercollaborative.org/ http://k12oercollaborative.org/