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By Kim Yaris Anchor Standard 10 Begs Another Question: In this post, we look at the part of anchor standard ten that says that students should read grade level complex text independently. 1. Expose them to a lot of text. 2. Let them practice using texts at their independent and instructional reading level. 3. Provide them really thoughtful guidance during shared reading of grade-level texts. 
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By Barbara Blackburn The new Common Core State Standards require that students read more complex texts. What are ways teachers can provide support for new levels of rigor?
Lucy Calkins. 3 Ways to Help Your Students Become Strategic Readers. Instructor, April, 1997, pages 40-41 Linda Fielding and C. Roller. Making Difficult Books Accessible and Easy Books Acceptable. The Reading Teacher, May, 1992, pages 678-685. The Common Core State Standards: www.corestandards.org.
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In less than three years, the Common Core State Standards have vaulted over key hurdles, surprising more than a few naysayers.
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I recently came across an article in Wired Magazine called "Why Kids Can't Search".
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This summer, Missouri received a waiver from NCLB provisions that removes AYP from a school's report card and does not require districts to offer parents the option to transfer from low-performing Title I schools.
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When it comes to teaching, Benita Albert is a rock star. She has even returned for an encore. Last spring, after 44 years of teaching mathematics at Oak Ridge High School, Albert decided to retire.
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The Council of Chief State School Officers this week released a new set of guidelines that are designed to help states revise, revamp, or rewrite their English-language proficiency standards so that they align with the common core standards in English/language arts and mathematics, as well as the new content standards that are still under development for science.
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U.S. News and World Report The new standards will change high school requirements, but turn out stronger graduates, advocates say. Find the "Bright Spots" "We're finding ways to use the current resources we have and tap into the knowledge of the amazing teaching and leadership staff."--John Deasy, Superintendent LAUSD
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Instructional design is aimed at “intentional” learning as opposed to “incidental” learning. This implies that target goals and desired learning outcomes guide the design and selection of learning activities. Meaningful learning outcomes are a starting and ending point…because it is against accomplishment of the objectives that the effectiveness of the design is measured. (Gagne, R. M., Wager, W.W., Golas, K.C., Keller, J. M., 2005). I am convinced that the Common Core Standards can ladder up student achievement and school success in the most struggling of districts The Instructional Goals are the focus of lesson design. ...are not so different from the design of two approaches I have used in the past:
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20 ways education will never be the same...
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Superintendent of Public Instruction, Patricia I. Wright will present to the State Board of Education the restructured math objectives she is calling "aggressive," as Virginia attempts to close the achievement gap between high and low performing schools and students. Virginia officials proposed the changes after criticism that expectations were too low in the wake of expected poor results on new, more difficult math tests. On those tests, overall pass rates fell from 87% in the 2010-2011 school year to 68% last year.
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By Catherine Gewertz Education Week Already equipped with inquiry-based skills, librarians are helping teachers acquire the instructional methods they need to adopt. ------- Literacy is the "common ground of the common core" (Janet Allen) and the expectation is that literacy is now a shared responsibility among all teachers. That means that close reading, writing, listening, speaking, and collaborating should be a normal part of instruction in every classroom every day. The minute we gave our teachers the results of our school wide diagnostic assessment and taught them how to determine the text complexity of their course materials and the expected comprehension level of the students, they made a beeline for the library. Instead of being a nicety, our librarian instantly became a necessity to quality instruction in every classroom. Mel Riddile
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Anchor Standard Ten Begs Question: In this blog we consider the meaning of anchor standard 10 of the Common Core, which states that students need to read grade level complex text independently and proficiently. "... the amalgam of several, somewhat complicated, factors that come together to determine what level of challenge a text poses to a particular reader on a particular grade for a particular task."
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Rigor is NOT a Four-Letter Word: By Barbara Blackburn Too often, we promote rigor as work that is only for advanced students, or work that is more (doubling the amount of homework) or harder (you already can’t do it, so here’s something that is even harder). That is NOT rigor.
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This is a great example of how teachers are integrating writing assignments across the curriculum, helping students practice practice their oral communication skills, and helping students safely publish their work in digital forms online.
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Amid concerns about the time and expense of testing, a 25-state coalition plans to offer the choice of both a shorter and longer assessment pegged to the common-core standards. Instead of designing one test for all of them, (SBAC) will offer a choice of a longer and a shorter version. The evolving two-pronged approach would give states the option of using a version of the Smarter Balanced test whose multiple sessions and classroom activities span
or the group’s original version, which lasts about four hours longer in grades 3-8 and about five hours longer in high school.
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An ongoing series of studies shows students do better when word problems are tailored to their interests.
The studies, which were discussed at a recent meeting here at Carnegie Mellon University, highlight one way to boost learning in algebraic expression, a concept considered critical in the Common Core State Standards but which educators say is perennially challenging to students. The study found that personalized math problems not only made it easier for students to understand what was being asked, but also helped boost the confidence of students who may have been intimidated by the subject.
Amy Keathley's curator insight,
February 16, 2014 9:45 PM
Word problems can be so intimidating! I think tailoring them to student interests is definitely a good idea, but we need to be careful - I've heard from some of my classmates that, if done poorly, it's a little offensive.
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Is algebra necessary? An Op-Ed essay argues it isn't. We list algebraic opportunities you can find in the pages of The Times, and invite you to join the conversation.
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Not long ago, a survey of teachers found large numbers sizing up the Common Core State Standards as pretty similar to what they're already teaching. The architect of the survey, William Schmidt of Michigan State University, saw in this a distressing sign that too many teachers don't grasp the depth of the change the standards represent, so they might well resist embracing it (or, he theorized, they simply hadn't read the standards).
KaylaHeinlein's curator insight,
October 25, 2015 10:39 AM
Great article about CCSS being implemented in the classroom. Interesting to think about how big the gap is between what the students are expected to do, and what they can actually do.
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Half of NJ districts lack adequate computers, Internet capacity...
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At Education Nation, there was "widespread acknowledgement that Common Core implementation will require significant time and attention to building educator capacity."
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A core curriculum is defined as:
Forty-nine percent of those who completed a core curriculum achieved the SAT (College and Career Readiness) Benchmark, compared to only 30 percent of those who did not – nearly a 20-point improvement.
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“When less than half of kids who want to go to college are prepared to do so, that system is failing.” - College Board President Gaston Caperton SAT reading scores hit a four-decade low As the number of students taking the SAT increases, scores slipped nationally. Poverty and Achievement There is a significant correlation between family income and test scores on the SAT, with average scores increasing with every $20,000 in additional family income.
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Digitally Speaking is a Read & Watch book. This is a new concept from Stenhouse Publishers: the online “book” contains text, embedded tutorials showing how to use the sites and too...
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