Livin' the Dream!!

As the resisdent expert on Common Core State Standards I have been given unlimited funds and unlimited authority!  Awesome!  My principal has asked me to implement change in each area of our school that would need to be changed in order to make CCSS work to it's fullest potential.  This is exactly what I would do.

At the end of the school year teachers would be given two weeks off.  At that point everyone would return to school for "summer planning".  Teachers would be paid DOUBLE OVERTIME!  Money is no object.  All summer long we would spend time studying the new standards, planning instruction, sharing ideas about how to teach each subject in a student centered classroom, what type of assessments (formal and informal) would be appropriate for CCSS, what type of evaluations we are going to used for the end of each trimester, and what type of progress report and report card would be the SIMPLEST way to document our students progress.
Teachers would be given three weeks to plan, analyze, and communicate with their peers to develop the best plan of action for the year that would ensure each of the standards was covered in a logical timeline. 
While General Ed and Special Ed teachers are busy planning, the Specialist will be planning thier curriculum as well.  Thier assignment would be to use music, art, drama, and PE objectives to enrich math, reading, science, and social studies standards.
With all our extra money we would higher three on-site ESC specialists.  One ESC would care for the computers school, the other two would be divided into primary and intermediate grades.  Thier job would be to train teachers and students on various programs that would align with the CCSS objectives.  Each class would have two to three hours of computer lab time in addition to having access to laptops in the classroom.  The ECS would be in the computer lab at all times and esentially be a specialist like the art or music teacher. 
With the computer savvy kids we would have there would be no need for paper because each child would have thier own laptop.  When we purchase our new textbooks for the year each child would get a text book, but all worksheets would be downloaded on the laptop and students would turn them in electronically.
Standardized tests would be eliminated with the exception of one pre-test and post-test twice a year.  Beginning of the year pretes with mid year post test, then a mid year pre test with a end of the year post test.  Each test would be analyzed by teachers over the course of three days.  We could adjust instruction accordingly and share ideas with each other about the best direction to take in order to fullfull the CCSS.
On Staff development day the teachers themsleves would do NONE of the presenting.  OUtside Education Research Specialist would be brought in to get us up to date on the latest human learning reasearch, and curriculum specialist would be brought in to help us plan and think outside the box.  We would need help thinking at the point because our brains would be fried. 
One helper per grade would be hired to do the teadious things that take teachers away from instructional analysis.  That helper would put up bulletin boards, change out instructional information on the classroom walls, organize classroom materials, file paper work for the teacher, prepare mailers to communicate with parents, serve on recess duty, etc.
THere would be a paid Mentor Teacher whose sole job would be to council and work one on one with new teachers for the first two years of thier teaching experience.  They would be required to be a CCSS expert as well. 
In conclusion, the AP would handle all building, and budget realted problems, there would be a Dean of Students whose sole job would be to handle discipline, and the Principal would work directly with teachers in the classroom, planning, analyzing, testing, setting goals and helping to set up student interventions.
This is how I would set up my school if I were in charge.  One final thought.  Each teacher would be given a raise and the principal and teachers would be in charge of the budget for thier school.  The district would provide us with our annual budget and then let us spend it how we feel our students would benefit best.