Self-talk is a tool that can enhance performance in terms of making the right decisions and achieving goals. Research at the University of Illinois showed that those who asked themselves if they could do a task did better than those who told themselves that they could do it. In other words, what your mother said about being able to do anything if you tell yourself you can is not necessarily true. If you ask yourself whether you can perform a task, you are more likely to achieve it as it sets up a more preventative frame of mind that anticipates obstacles and figures out how to overcome them”: http://bit.ly/IXLunn.
College and Career-Ready Standards for School Leaders
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Supporting school leaders in helping all students become college and career-ready and to succeed in post-secondary education and training
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To ensure all students get a great education, schools need to be led by transformative leaders who can set clear goals and chart a path to reaching them. And these leaders have to be given the power to lead—to hire the best team for their students, to reward the best teachers, and to decide which teachers should be laid off or fired, particularly in times of financial strain.
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Kentucky's efforts to overhaul its public education system are being put to their first test, and state officials are trying to control expectations. "Your proficiency scores may be in the range of 50 percent proficient," Terry Holliday, Kentucky's education commissioner, says in a 30-minute video posted on the Department of Education's website about end-of-year assessments that are replacing tests used for two decades. " ... We shouldn't use that as a scare tactic. What that should be is just that's the average score."
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Anthony Cody spent 24 years working in Oakland schools, 18 of them as a science teacher at a high needs middle school. He is National Board certified, and now leads workshops with teachers focused on Project Based Learning.
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Research demonstrates the importance of high-quality standards and implementation
Washington, D.C. – Dr. William Schmidt today released key conclusions from his research detailing how the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for mathematics can potentially improve the performance of U.S. students if implemented appropriately. In an event co-sponsored by Achieve, Chiefs for Change and the Foundation for Excellence in Education, Dr. Schmidt presented a briefing on his work: Common Core State Standards Math: The Relationship Between High Standards, Systemic Implementation and Student Achievement.
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Common sense, increasingly scarce in the public debate around the Common Core among talking heads and the chattering class, still prevails in the heartland.
Educators see the “big picture,” the “global” problems that the Common Core aims to address, i.e. U.S. students’ lackluster performance among their international competitors and the large number of high-school graduates who are not prepared for college or a career.
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Common Core calls for big changes in teaching. This Quick & Effective Teaching Strategies edition focuses on what can be done to prepare now.
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What the Schmidt and Whitehurst studies tell us—and don't tell us—about the Common Core State Standards.
These findings do suggest that Common Core may be getting something very right in the way the standards are written and that spending the time and money necessary to get implementation right may well be exactly what our students need. Or, Robert Frost famously cautioned: There are promises to keep. And miles to go before we sleep.
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Research demonstrates the importance of high-quality standards and implementation Washington, D.C. – May 3, 2012 – Dr. William Schmidt today released key conclusions from his research detailing how the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for mathematics can potentially improve the performance of U.S. students if implemented appropriately.
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This blog is the 4th in a series of blogs by Mel Riddile, Associate Director for High School Services at the National Association of Secondary School Principals, on the principal’s role in implementing the Common Core State Standards. School leaders should consider 10 keys to successful implementation of the Common Core State Standards:
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Petrosky makes an argument for using a full range of learning repertoires.
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Better thinking about assessment can help us change our culture of teaching and learning from “know and be able to do” to “understand and be able to explain”
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The Common Core State Standards initiative was state led and coordinated by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers to create benchmarks for learning from kindergarten through...
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Summarizing text: Explicitly teach students procedures for summarizing what they read. Summarization allows students to practice concise, clear writing to convey an accurate message of the main ideas in a text. Teaching summary writing can involve explicit strategies for producing effective summaries or gradual fading of models of a good summary as students become more proficient with the skill.
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- Greater rigor
- Depth - Make connections to real world problems
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I want to be as prepared as possible for the Common Core Standards. But when I got a look at this assessment, I was nervous. It asked the students to perform 3 main tasks with a poem: 1) analyze the impact of word choice on meaning and tone
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Last week, students across Tennessee began taking their annual TCAP exams.
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What Administrators Need to Know
Mathematics likely will require the most significant shift in teaching methods, explains Sue Gendron, former Maine commissioner of education and now the policy coordinator for the SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium, one of two groups developing assessments tailored to the new standards. The Common Core standards for math leave no room for a "mile-wide, inch-deep approach," she says. Instead, they demand a deeper and more focused strategy. Teachers will be expected to tackle three or four big ideas in math for each grade level, rather than just getting through as much content as possible-fractions this week, multiplication the next.
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Two years before its planned implementation, an effort to simplify building blocks of elementary and secondary education hits roadblocks.
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by Burkins & Yaris What do Moneyball and the Common Core have in common?
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"It's pretty clear that these standards are world class and very coherent, focused, and rigorous," William Schmidt, Michigan State University A new research paper offers what amounts to a spirited defense of the Common Core State Standards in mathematics, making the case that the standards are, in fact, consistent with those in high-achieving countries and suggesting their faithful implementation holds considerable promise to improve student learning.
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Columnist Andrew Foster compiles 6 great ideas for independent or group study of the Math Common Core State Standards.
suggestions for engaging in individual or interactive research of the standards and the development of Mathematics across the grade levels.
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