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"The standard tells you the outcome that must be accomplished, but not everything that a student may need to learn to reach the goal is specified. That's where the teacher comes in… what do we need to teach to accomplish these standards? That is up to us." 
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"Critical thinking is important to high school graduates, to college graduates and to entry-level employees. Those lacking critical thinking skills at either the diploma or degree level can find themselves vulnerable career wise and in navigating the complexities of everyday life. Parents are concerned about the rapid implementation of Common Core Standards and how growth patterns in critical thinking skills are going to be measured. However, educators behind the movement are willing to experiment with new technologies and teaching modalities successfully employed globally and understand there will be “bumps in the road.”
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"Mastery is key, as well. Sanders said the old state standards required her to cover so much material that she would have to move on to the next item, regardless of whether some students did not fully understand a concept. Now she regularly checks to see how well kids are doing instead of waiting for tests at the end of a unit, which would grade them but not give much opportunity to shore up weak spots before moving on. “I don’t think that we expected that all of them could do it,” Sanders said. Now, I’m not moving on until they all master it in some way or they show some growth.”
Mel Riddile's insight:
Shift from Coverage to Mastery
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So we all know it's importance. We all understand that students learn more when they do it. The problem is how to facilitate it. "It" is getting students to talk mathematically. As a teacher, you c...
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As a division we have been working towards a more authentic style of assessment in our classrooms. It is true that at the end of the day, our academic Math students (Math 30-1 and Math 30-2) need...
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8 Tips for Speaking and Listening
While it is impossible to know all of the reasons, there is no doubt that learning to listen and talk is an extremely important way to broaden knowledge, enhance understanding and build community.
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The idea that financial incentives can improve teacher quality in an age of high-stakes testing is dead on arrival unless top teachers can produce gains in the tough schools that are comparable to gains in lower-poverty schools.
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Classroom observations are the foundation of virtually every teacher evaluation system in the country, and they aren’t working. Today’s observation rubrics give observers too much to look for in a short amount of time.
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A new measure allows researchers to study how the brain comprehends a long and challenging text.
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As we stand at the Common Core buffet of reading, there seems to be a risk that we are going to force students to binge just for a better grade on a test, when we should be teaching them to try everything from the menu to help prepare them for...
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By Nancy Akhavan Many children are not strategic readers of nonfiction text; they dive into reading nonfiction the same way they approach a story or a novel. But if students are to become literate readers in a world filled with an abundance of information, they need to be good readers and strategic readers. Strategic readers
Dyslexia Today's curator insight,
November 10, 2013 8:13 PM
A good overview of what reading instruction really is, it is not about decoding text. When people argue that text to speech is not reading, we at Dyslexia Today argue that for a dyslexic it is all about getting to what this article is about. Learning about different types of text and how to handle each one.
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How California and other states are spending huge amounts to implement Common Core.
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Scholastic has put together a wealth of rich resources for teachers to use this November.
Amanda Coler-Pierce's curator insight,
November 18, 2013 8:08 PM
Great resource! Thanks for sharing!
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Although the CCSS provide states with a great deal of flexibility in terms of how they are taught and assessed, schools with students living with disabilities could face unique obstacles of their own, Education Week reported.
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December 1, 2013 6:58 PM
This principal discussed why to embrace the common core. Attached to this article was a youtube link that I found very interesting. The youtube link from the North Carolina governor on questions that are begining to come up about the common core. There are many critics of the common core standards. The article mentions seven reasons to embrace the common core and I feel that they are important... 1) For College and Career 2) Enables Teached to Collabortate 3) Teachers Develop Curriculum Alligned to the Common Core 4) Professional Development 5) Curriculum Allignment is Easier 6) The Change Process Requires Time 7) Student Acheivement Matters
One of the seven reasons that I wanted to talk a little more about is the second one. The common core allows teachers to collaborate. I think that teachers collaborating and working together is very important. It allows for new ideas to be seen and for yourself as a teacher to get new ideas and inspiration. It is also important because it can allow professional conversations about what is being done in other counties, and states. I think that having the technology and blogging sites that we have today, being able to collaborate as teacher could be extremely benefical.
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Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner.
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There’s a reason New Yorkers seem angrier about Common Core than most other Americans: The Empire State is a year ahead of virtually all other states in implementing the new standards and the accompanying student tests. And being the nation’s Common Core guinea pigs is causing a lot of frustration. For example, during a recent school board workshop, Watkins Glen Superintendent Tom Phillips described New York’s implementation of Common Core as “a disaster” and complained state officials are “trying to change 30 years of education in 18 months,”
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Speed doesn't matter, and there's no such thing as a "math person." How the Common Core's approach to the discipline could correct these misperceptions.
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Connecting Design Thinking to Your Area of Expertise
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A few jurisdictions are seeing big gains in 4th and 8th grade math and reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, but results still lag for some states and student groups. "Tennessee Commissioner of Education Kevin S. Huffman credited much of that state’s score gains to its ratcheting up of academic standards."
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8 mathematical practices aligned with Common Core State Standards. It particularly shares with teachers starategies to employ in elementary, middle, and highschool to meet the Common Core Standards for Mathematics. The graphic is based on Common Core Math Book Bundle, K-5, 6-8, and 9-12, by Leslie Texas and Tammy Jones.
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Special educator Elizabeth Stein has been a champion of higher Common Core standards for her inclusion students but is beginning to question the relentless pace.
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Nationally, writing has been among the many casualties of K-12’s ballooning class sizes and its focus on multiple-choice tests.
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