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High School Students Weigh in on Common Core Debate
One of my newest concerns is the way companies, organizations, and academics are busy marketing themselves as experts on common core so they can get paid by school districts for staff development...
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Ex-Intel CEO Praises Arizona's 'Massive' Educational Transformation
Craig Barrett has expressed strong opinions on Arizona's education system.In 2011, Barrett, former chief executive of Intel, told lawmakers and business leaders that Arizona would not be on Intel's...
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Meeting the Common Core – Argumentative Writing
Making the distinction between argumentative and persuasive writing.See it on Scoop.it, via All things Core Curriculum
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Taking the Long View on Common Core
Implementing Common Core Standards requires a long view, one that extends out at least a decade or more. Most importantly, it requires increased focus on professional learning among those responsible...
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Let’s Meet Common Core Standards with Great Nonfiction | Children’s Literacy...
If students will be reading more nonfiction in the near future – and it looks like they will be – it’s certain that educators will have to find high-quality, intelligent sources of text that will...
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Thinking Tools | Teacher & Student Planners
These Online Interactive Thinking Strategies and Tools are designed to provide a scaffold that enable students to think with more depth and structure. When using them, ask students to continually...
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Common Core: Implications of Collaboration « InterACT
It is also alarming to see the various publishers bombarding teachers with their Common Core curriculum fixes (a clear reminder of NCLB). Our district has instructed to sites to not commit any money...
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Shanahan on Literacy: Writing and Common Core
Subject Areas/Keywords: assessments, CCSS, Common Core State Standards, composition, curriculum, elementary, English language learners, literacy, methods, response to intervention, RTI, secondary,...
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Corralling Support for a Common Core - Huffington Post (blog)
Corralling Support for a Common Core Huffington Post (blog) If the naysayers don't kill the movement first, the effort to mold a new curriculum for the states offers tremendous opportunities to...
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Common Core Technological Standards: They Are the Tail, Not the ...
While it would be an overstatement to say that the two main groups charged with developing tests implementing the Common Core curriculum are, from a technological perspective, in the Dark Ages, it is...
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Cool Tools for 21st Century Learners: Tech Connections: Teach Above the Line...
For as long as I can remember I have been an advocate for helping teachers understand the stages of technology integration in order to effectively use tech as a tool for learning.I've adopted a few...
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Kids' 100 Most Popular Books - Making the Common Core Practical
What are kids reading today? 4 new reports give details by grade, gender: 100 most popular titles for fiction, nonfiction, and Spanish.See it on Scoop.it, via All Things Common Core
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Why We Need Common Standards and Better Tests
It's easy to criticize tests but they represent this country's commitment to improving education for all students -- particularly the least well served. The Common Core is a big step forward and so...
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We Are Teachers: Finding High Quality Non-Fiction Texts
By now, you probably know that the Common Core State Standards place a big emphasis on kids reading informational text. In fact, the requirements are clear: According to the standards’ key design...
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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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