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Resources for Teachers - Using assessment data and other tools and information to improve instruction for students...aligned to the Common Core State Standards
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via 4321...TEACH Rigor is: Rigor isn't:
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Educational Web sites for students and teachers are thriving as more states, including New York, adopt the Common Core curriculum and move toward a somewhat more unified system of teaching and testing.
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By Robert Rothman Harvard Education Letter August 2, 2012 Math
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Matt Weld's curator insight,
January 9, 2013 8:49 PM
Clear, concise, brief summary of the effects of Common Core
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Great resources released for our PARCC Educator Leader Cadre on the last day of our first convening
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As schools prepare for changes under the Common Core, some educators are turning to a program that strengthens students' history knowledge and reading comprehension. A study of one such approach suggests that it can yield a triple academic benefit: It can deepen students’ content knowledge, help them think like historians, and also build their reading comprehension. The Reading Like a Historian program, a set of 75 free secondary school lessons in U.S. history, is getting a new wave of attention as teachers adapt to the Common Core State Standards in English/language arts. Those guidelines, adopted by all but four states, demand that teachers of all subjects help students learn to master challenging nonfiction and build strong arguments based on evidence.
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In the wake of announcing a new suite of tests, ACT Inc. pulls out of a contract with one of the groups crafting common assessments.
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Teaching Successes with ELLs "If time is spent effectively delivering solid content to every student and academic language in addition to the ELLs, 90% will be fully prepared to complete assigned homework. That 10% who are still having difficulty can be given adjusted assignments with the understanding that the teacher may give them the more difficult assignment when the teacher feels that they have fully demonstrated their ability to now do the work that they found impossible only a couple of days ago."
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Donalyn Miller is a 6th grade language arts teacher in Texas who is said to have a "gift": She can turn even the most reluctant (or, in her words, "dormant") readers into students who can't put their books down. "While identifying readability can be useful when evaluating textbooks, guided reading texts, or other teaching materials, selecting books for classroom instruction and recommending books for independent reading are two different processes."
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One of the critically mentioned components of the Common Core is the complex text. "Despite steady or growing reading demands from various sources, K–12 reading texts have actually trended downward in difficulty in the last half century."
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By Maureen Downey Researcher William H.Schmidt believes education has become a game of chance in which the odds of success are predicated on factors outside the control of the students
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BY KRISTEN BUCKLES - STAFF WRITER Are you as smart as an elementary or middle school student? "..soon just knowing the correct answer may not be enough for students to satisfy their teachers. Common Core State Standards in mathematics will begin to take effect this year and could fundamentally change how teachers teach math. Now, all students -- even the math whizzes -- might have to struggle with the problems to gain a deeper concept of not just what the answer is, but also why the answer is what it is."
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By Rhonda Coleman and Claude Goldberg "Kenji Hakuta of Stanford University is leading a national effort to develop CCSSaligned resources that provide specific support for educators working with ELLs. In a recent interview, Hakuta (as cited in Migdol, 2011) identified two key areas that undergird the recommendations put forward by the creators of the CCSS:
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Understand in a clear, direct way, the importance of formative and summative Common Core assessments. What’s the difference between a doctor’s appointment and an autopsy? An autopsy, while helpful in some cases to determine what happened, is often too late to be truly useful in improving one’s health, or condition. What’s done is done—here’s what happened, don’t do it next time. A check up on the other hand is a look at what’s happening as you go. It gives you time to see how you’re doing, and look at what you need to change—maybe drink less soda, or cut back on the sweets.
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Tim Shanahan on Literacy The trick is to balance the difficulty (for the student) of the text and the amount of support the teacher can provide (I don’t believe she can provide much if there are 25 other kids there who are reading at 5th-10th grade level in a 40 minute class).
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By Catherine Gewertz Boatloads of students are ending up in remedial coursework. Whether that is an indicator of poor high school preparation, poor assessment instruments or both, the depressing results for students are the same: getting mired in those classes drastically reduces their chances of finishing college.
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By Catherine Gewertz In the wake of announcing a new suite of tests, ACT Inc. pulls out of a contract with one of the groups crafting common assessments. The testing "industry is reshaping itself in response to the unprecedented project by two big groups of states to create new tests for the Common Core State Standards, using $360 million in federal Race to the Top money." “In the past, when vendors have done [test] work for individual states, those products haven’t generally been marketable to other states. Now there is a bigger market, with much more money hanging on it.” But one state assessment director said he attended a meeting in which ACT presenters said that their new testing system would cost less and be ready a year earlier than PARCC’s anticipated 2014-15 completion.
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An Interview with Kathleen Sadao and Nancy Robinson: Michael F.Shaughnessy Kathleen Sadao and Nancy Robinson are the co-authors of “Assistive Technology for Young Children: Creating Inclusive Learning...
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"As educators of varied disciplinary content, the CCSS has challenged us all to become teachers of close reading. Therein lies an implicit challenge to teachers, intellectual repositories of knowledge, histories, and stories: we must become readers ourselves who have evolved into close readers."
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From the state Department of Education today: Educators across Georgia will begin teaching the Common Core Georgia Performance Standards (CCGPS) in mathematics, English language arts, as well as literacy in science, social studies, and technical subjects, when they return to school this year. “These standards will better prepare our students for success beyond high school and allow us to see how we measure up against other states,” said state School Superintendent Dr. John Barge.
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Jay R. Masterson, Ed.D. Principal, North Cumberland Middle School President-Elect, Rhode Island Association of School Principals The Standards call for a greater focus in mathematics. Rather than racing to cover topics in today’s mile-‐wide, inch-‐deep curriculum, teachers use the power of the eraser and significantly narrow and deepen the way time and energy is spent in the math classroom. The math standards focus deeply on the major work* of each grade so that students can gain strong foundations:
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This blog looks at the importance of actual reading and writing practice in classrooms, as opposed to teacher-focused lessons. "all the supplemental activity around teaching reading and writing doesn’t really matter if students don’t have time to actually read and write. Unless students spend substantial time reading and writing,"
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