Week 2 Thoughts

As I read the Dana text and watched the videos, I am trying to figure out my own research topic, but I started to think about another off topic subject that was brought somewhere in the readings. Another part the readings told me the same stuff I heard for many years that we have to stay on same page with district, state, and campus curriculum and with doing that then we can teach our kids. We are supposed to implement all this and fit it in the 45 minutes I have each day with my students. There was a quote in the Dana text that what stays "constant are the teachers or people", but in my opinion, what regulates us is every one above us. It is still hard no matter how you put it to stay within the guidelines yet keep the scores up to the state par. Our classroom need to be enriched as long as enrichment passes the tests. Even though I am not going to research it, but my question should state, what is more important in the classroom; technology, scores, or actually getting kids ready for life outside school? We have to implement technology to bring the kids in, but does that correlate to student achievement?