Today's professional landscape for teachers in many schools and districts is marked by tangles of public policy debates, reform disagreements, and funding woes in which competing views, constituencies, and educational philosophies vie with each other for supremacy. Conscious focus on your teacher identity should hold you steady in times of professional turbulence yet also allow you to be flexible enough to grow and change in the swirling winds of continuous cycles of education reform. Like so many innovations in teaching, technology should be seen as a tool that knowledgeable, thoughtful, self-reflective teachers can use to complement their existing professional capacities. The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are the recent iteration of twenty-five years of emphasis on standards and accountability in education. Supporters say that embracing digital learning in schools better prepares students for the digital future they'll live and work in.