ways she was blazing trails and there was a lot of lessons we learned from her work and she and melissa lambert have been instrumental in informing us about some potential land minus -- mines that were there. i want to turn it to them so they can share with you the work. they have a little bit ahead in the process and that has helped us to best coordinate our efforts in terms of professional development, in terms of scheduling, that sort of thing. but because they are in the pledges -- implementation stage there is a lot at best to discuss. i'm turn it over to them. >> good evening commissioners and superintendant. thank you for having us here. we are going to speak, try to be very brief here and talk fwou some of the work we've been doing mostly this year in terms of the implementation of the core curriculum and with the embedded common core state standard. so we'll also touch upon