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Education for the 21st Century - Content vs. Skills
I am in full agreement that the Habits of Mind drive good curriculum. I am also a proponent of 21st century skills. However, shouldn't they be embedded in our instruction of the common core...
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Can a 'National Curriculum' Improve Student Achievement? | Policy ...
First, many states are creating Common Core curricula—the bridge between conceptual standards and granular lessons. (Statewide curriculum coherence, even on a voluntary basis, is new for NY and many...
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The Moral Importance of Common Core Standards | Dropout Nation ...
From where Common Core supporters sit, the standards are far superior to those already implemented throughout the 50 states, ensuring that all children will get strong, comprehensive...
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Common Core opens a second front in the Reading Wars
If you are to take the Common Core at its word—that the sophistication of the text is equally as important as the skills that students master—then it will be increasingly difficult for publishers of...
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Getting Complicated With Texts: Understanding the New ELA Standards
The new Common Core Standards call for students to read a great deal more content-rich non-fiction in high school. But what’s a “complex” text anyway and how do teachers select such texts?See it on...
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"The (Common Core) standards are not a vision; they define outcomes."
As district and school leaders plan how they will meet the standards, it is crucial that they take three preliminary steps: review research on change in education, reflect on and mine past change...
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Common core: Dramatic changes in how special education is done!
There are going to be some dramatic changes between how special education (at least in my school and other schools I’ve worked in) is done now and how it will be done when the Common Core State...
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Common Core Classrooms: Changing Math Homework Mindset
A spiral math review program. Using the standards, and aligning it to my curriculum, doing math in this way has literally saved me the headache and stress of "they just don't get it" because, you...
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Quick Guide to the Common Core: Key Expectations Explained - Education Week...
Paragould Daily PressQuick Guide to the Common Core: Key Expectations ExplainedEducation Week News (blog)Since the Common Core State Standards were introduced, there has been much discussion about...
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5 Top Resources for Aligning Your Social Studies Curricula to the ...
In social studies, primary source document analysis goes hand in hand with the 9-12 Common Core reading and writing standards. Here are five top resources to align your curricula to the Common Core...
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Six Ways to Get Families on Board with the Common Core
As your school plans its transition to the Common Core, it’s important to communicate key changes to students’ families. Included in this article are six ideas for getting Common Core buy-in from your...
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Teachers Use NY Times With Common Core and Reading Informational Text
"We're collaborating with two New Jersey teachers and their freshman classes to bring you three quick, engaging tasks each week that match the demands of the Common Core Standards with the content of...
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Common Core Connections: Unpacking Academic Vocabulary
Are you wondering where to begin to adopt the Common Core Vocabulary Standards? While there are many specific vocabulary standards clearly listed in the K-12 Language strand, it's helpful and important...
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How Common Core Standards Mesh With Education Technology
If you're a teacher in the US, you've surely heard of the Common Core Standards, the national academic standards for K-12 schools.See it on Scoop.it, via All things Core Curriculum
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5 Things Every Teacher Should be Doing to Meet the Common Core State...
The following blog post was written by Eye On Education's Senior Editor, Lauren Davis. At the NCTE convention last month, everyone was buzzing about...See it on Scoop.it, via All things Core Curriculum
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EduCore - Free Tools for Teaching the Common Core funded by Gates via ASCD
Funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, ASCD Launches FREE EduCore™ Tool for educators implementing the Common Core State Standards in both mathematics and literacy. The EduCore...
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2010 Teacher of the Year Offers Fascinating Take on the CCSS
Sarah Brown Wessling shares her top 10 "Aha" moment in working with the Common Core. What was most uniquely fascinating was the way common language and goals drove systematic change. Further she...
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Fiction vs. nonfiction smackdown
Everyone hopes new standards will get students out of a reading slump. But the demand for more nonfiction reading is being resisted by English teachers.See it on Scoop.it, via All things Core Curriculum
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Quick Guide to the Common Core: Key Common Core Expectations Explained for...
Tom Vander Ark is an education advocate, advisor, and author of Getting Smart: How Personal Digital Learning is Changing the World. Tom is Founder and Executive Editor of Getting Smart and a partner...
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O.C. classrooms to change under Common Core
News: Look, sound of classrooms to change under Common Core | students, core, common, teachers, california, standards, one, algebra, teacher, new...See it on Scoop.it, via All things Core Curriculum
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