"The Common Core standards are only the what. They describe what students should know and be able to do at each grade level. They're not the how. How the standards are taught, what happens in classrooms, that's the curriculum."
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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"This article focuses on the unit of study as an inquiry-based instructional framework supporting students’ development as writers in single-subject areas or across disciplines. As teacher educators, we collaborate with teachers and students in a variety of middle grades settings, and we have found this framework works well for a diverse range of learners, enhancing their motivation, engagement, and growth as writers. In addition, a unit of study approach to teaching writing can help students meet the new Common Core State Standards for writing." 
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As the district prepares to roll out tests based on the standards, parents and educators are already noticing improvements.
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A preview of a new survey finds school districts placing a high priority on revising curriculum, instruction, and materials for the common core. Organizations are springing up to help with those projects.
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During the past couple months, newspapers and cable news have had a field day analyzing Obamacare's troubles. Firestorms over HealthCare.gov or President Obama's unfounded assurances seemingly sprung from out of the blue.
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Find, steal, and share free Common Core tools. For teachers, coaches, school and district leaders. Assembled by Student Achievement Partners.
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MIDDLETOWN, Del. (AP) — Remembering the plot of a short story is no longer good enough in teacher Amy Lawson's fifth-grade classroom. Today's students are being asked to think more critically.
Nancy J. Herr's curator insight,
December 2, 2013 10:17 AM
If you've been in education for a while, you know critical thinking has been a backbone of the curriculumk for years. Now students are being tested on it.
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"The problem with Common Core is not coddled kids; it is high-stakes testing. And the anxiety that kids feel is not from their parents but rather from their teachers, who fear for their jobs."
jhenehan's curator insight,
December 3, 2013 12:20 PM
Are kids too coddled? This is an interesting question. The article mentions that the problem with the common core is all of the high stakes testing. This testing causes high level anxiety. Finland having the best education program in the world, has one serious test in the first year of high school. All other grades are downplayed until this test. Students are allowed to retake this test if they are not pleased with their results that they got. They get feedback and this feedback can help them to do better. If we want the common core to succed in the U.S. the article says that we should too down play tests and have hgih stake testing every few years. If not we may be undoing the value of the common core. I feel that this article brings up a good point about how kids are too coddled and many have fear and anxiety of tests.
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"I have heard too many accounts of young people who progress through school believing that they are receiving an education that will prepare them to pursue their dream,s only to find out how woefully short their true course of study has left them. And there are others who know the work they are currently focused on is not rigorous enough to accomplish their professional and personal goals. In both instances, the standards guiding these students and their teachers’ efforts did not represent true preparation for success in college, career, and life."
Mel Riddile's insight:
Key Point The "standards represent what today’s students need to know to be successful in postsecondary study, they also represent a serious stretch for students and schools in every state."
jhenehan's curator insight,
December 3, 2013 12:14 PM
I really enjoyed reading this aritcle. It was posted by a educator that has spent more than a decade in public educaiton. She mentioned that she wants all children to succed. I feel that this is extremely true. As an educators you should want all children to succed and to learn and grow. I also agree that just because there is now this common core, this doesnt mean that since this is in place that every student will now succed. It still takes work and it should be used as a guidepost for educators. The core is to prepare students for not only todays careers but for the career of the future. One quote that stood out to me in the article was that, " The CCSS will give us an oppurtunity to more closely allign what students are learning with the knowledge and skills that they need for the real world". This quote is key. The real world is important and educators should prepare students for the real world. It can be done with high quality education.
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Credit state leaders for sticking with higher standards for Wisconsin students.
jhenehan's curator insight,
December 3, 2013 12:09 PM
I feel that the purpose of this article was to discuss how the common core was being implemented in Wisconsin and how they already feel that there may need to be some tweaking to these new standards. I think and feel that this is a good thing. Tweaking standards and improving them can always be beneificial in the long run. It mentions how the prior standards were too vague and that the new common core standards create more of a critical thinking atmosphere. I agree with the article that setting higher goals and assessing those goals can make better grades and performance in the long run. Boosting learning will always be important!!
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You can’t teach to the Smarter Balanced so we’re doing what we’ve always done which is to provide good quality instruction,” Cromwell Superintendent Dr. Paula Talty said. From March 18 to June 6, schools will conduct the Smarter Balanced field test — a trial run to help ensure they are ready and to address testing issues, such as making sure schools are equipped with enough computers to implement the test, which is taken on a keyboard instead of with the familiar No. 2 pencil.
Dr. Dea Conrad-Curry's curator insight,
November 26, 2013 8:36 PM
I disagree...you can prep for the test by meeting the standards! New Generation Assessments and standards are connected more tightly than interwoven wedding bands. One way to avoid the standards is through worrying about keyboarding skills. True, some kids aren't prepared for the computerized assessment in terms of the computer, but paper and pencil will to be an option. More important than keyboarding skills are the thinking skills...for the most part, that is what the test assesses. Why can the public not see that? Because in general, most people don't understand the assessments or the standards. |
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"Hidden in all the OECD (PISA) data, there's also some very good news. In three states – Massachusetts, Florida and Connecticut – enough students took the exam to measure state specific performance on the international level. Only three educational systems worldwide statistically outperformed Massachusetts in reading, and only six in science and nine in math. If all students in the United States were performing at the level of high-schoolers in Massachusetts, our country would be at the top of the pack among peer nations.
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Despite being adopted in more than 40 states, people still have lots of questions about the Common Core.
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Do women simply need a degree to land a job in any field? If so, the opposite is certainly not true for men - at least not yet.
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over 57 percent of college attendees are female
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December 4, 2013 6:11 PM
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WASHINGTON (AP) — To say that new academic standards have yielded strange bedfellows would be an understatement.
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"For many years, intelligence was thought to be static (fixed) and could not be altered. Informal research has shown this to be particularly true when it comes to students thinking about their mathematics intelligence."
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Fixed Mindset vs. Growth Mindset
Brain scientists define learning as a process that will modify a subsequent behavior, and memory as the record left by a learning process. However, learning and memory are dependent on each other, as illustrated below.
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U.S. 15-year-olds made no progress on recent international achievement exams and fell further in the rankings, reviving a debate about America's ability to compete in a global economy.
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Remembering the plot of a short story is no longer good enough in teacher Amy Lawson's fifth-grade classroom.
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While calling for transparency of student, teacher and principal data, policy makers and state leaders ignore calls from the field to have open and honest conversation.
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Read "Principals as Cultural Leaders" http://www.kappanmagazine.org/content/92/5/52.abstract
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These Common Core Writing Rubrics Help Teachers in All Subject Areas Identify and Score Good Writing, Bad Writing, and Everything in Between
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A steady dose of formative assessment is the key to getting students comfortable with the mathematical practices the Common Core standards require.
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The Ignite Show: Four Special Episodes Nationwide, teachers and students are rising to the challenge of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), setting the course for student success in college, career, and in life. The National Network of State Teachers of the Year and The Hunt Institute, in partnership with the AFT, NEA, and National PTA®, have worked with The Ignite Show to develop four special episodes highlighting the effective implementation of CCSS in the classroom. Join The Ignite Show on a cross-country journey with four State Teachers of the Year and their students as they raise teaching and learning to exciting new levels through the Common Core State Standards.
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