This opinion piece would interest professors of Chinese and other LCTLs. The author encourages viewing the Standards not as a threat to academic freedom but as a positive challenge to professionalism. He discusses how the Standards provide a possible framework for integrating ever-burgeoning Chinese instruction in K-6 and heritage schools through university levels.#All5Cs #JournalArticle #Teachers and teaching #LessCommonlyTaught #Teachers and teaching #Principalfocus #All #Chinese #Curriculum