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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 Common Core
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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 Common Core
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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 Common Core
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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 Common Core
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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 Common Core
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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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