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June 24, 2013 6:02 PM
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Ready Washington is a coalition that supports college- and career-ready learning standards: Common Core State Standards and Next Generation Science Standards.
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June 24, 2013 5:58 PM
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June 24, 2013 7:16 AM
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Teachers will spend the summer training to roll out Curriculum 2.0 to fourth- and fifth-grade students.
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June 22, 2013 5:27 PM
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Many teachers are experiencing the common-core implementation as massive second-order change.
When you read this article don't skip the 2nd grade video!
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June 22, 2013 11:14 AM
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Top assessment experts craft five criteria they consider crucial to designing new and better tests of what students know.
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June 21, 2013 6:45 PM
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There are many individual CCSS standards to address and there are also a ton of apps to try. Here is some helpful advice and a few suggested apps to help teachers embrace the changing classroom cli...
Common Core apps to create,capture and connect to the standards.
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June 21, 2013 12:02 PM
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Idaho "will dump its Idaho Standards Achievement Test for 2013-14, to prevent double-testing. Students will take ISATs only when they are required to graduate."
Idaho's decision to pilot SBAC assessments in 2014 and drop old state assessments resulted from the USDOE decision to allow states more latitude in the use of test scores to evaluate schools, principals, and teachers. This provides a dual benefit:
Anyone with children in High School should be aware of this.
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June 21, 2013 9:34 AM
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will the states a) make the tests harder; or b) dumb them down?
DALLAS, June 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- As the majority of states implement online exams for assessment of Common Core State Standards (CCSS), Texas Instruments (TI) is announcing a new program to make its ExamCalc™ software available to assessment providers for inclusion in states' selected CCSS summative assessments. ExamCalc™ software provides states with online versions of the TI-84 Plus graphing, TI-30XS MultiView™ scientific and TI-108 elementary calculators, for use during CCSS online exams.
EDUCATION MATTER
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June 20, 2013 6:01 PM
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Great Idea for Professional Development! Teacher as the student.
Super simple. Easy to understand. This may be one of the best articles I've read on this concept.....there's been so much fuss and it's really only 3 simple steps.
Strategies principals use to evaluate teachers by annotating, analyzing and reflecting.
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June 20, 2013 5:50 PM
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In English education, skills are being detached from knowledge. But teaching skills without knowledge doesn’t work. Instead, knowledge and skills must be integrated, like a double helix. Only by ...
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June 20, 2013 3:43 PM
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School grades are expected to drop statewide this summer, barring a “mitigation” of new, tougher accountability standards from the Florida Board of Education.
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June 20, 2013 11:14 AM
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"77% of school leaders and educators across subject areas agreed with the statement that “developing student literacy is one of the most important parts of my job.”
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June 24, 2013 6:04 PM
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Partner in Education
I’ve been working like a madwoman creatingEvidence Centered Design planners for teachers to use in the coming days and months as they work to prepare lessons and learning for the 2015 Common Core Assessments. Having said that, I’ll add that though these planners can effect that change, they are also just good sense when we think about how to develop lessons and learning whether we are striving to meet the CCSS or just working to be good teachers.
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June 24, 2013 6:00 PM
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Common Core and New York Libraries: Division of Library Development, New York State Library
On Monday, June 18, New York State Library’s Division of Library Development released a set of Common Core Learning Standards to be implemented in libraries throughout the state. These new guidelines will impact school and public libraries alike, and are meant to “foster a community of inquiry and literacy that leads to high academic achievement, independent reading and learning, and collaborative efforts throughout a student’s life.”
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June 24, 2013 5:55 PM
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NC CCSS ELA Close Reading Resources | Grade K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 ,8 and Close Reading Passages, Close Reading Lessons Plans, Close Reading Graphic Organizes, and Close Reading NC CCSS ELA Posters
North Carolina's ELA Common Core State Standards are being implemented fully this year! CCSS ELA testing starts 2014-15! Teachers, Administrators, Parents and Students need to prepare for the more rigorous CCSS ELA reading standards with careful examination and study of text demands. The Close Reading CCSS ELA resources below are great tools for teachers to use in the classroom to help students develop stronger reading comprehension strategies and skills.
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June 22, 2013 11:22 AM
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UNC student thinks his freshman courses weren’t as good as AP. What do you think? “ "my high school teachers used better and more efficient methods of teaching than those I saw in my first year of college."
Most of the available data shows that high school students who do well in AP courses and tests do better in college than students who do not take AP.
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June 22, 2013 10:48 AM
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Los Angeles Unifieds incoming freshmen class will be the first that will have to pass a rigorous college-prep curriculum with a "C" in order to get a diploma, which has district officials scrambling to identify and replicate successful...
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June 21, 2013 6:06 PM
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Many educators are explicitly teaching such skills as how to evaluate a website's credibility, how to use precise keywords, and how to better mine search engines.
Key point - teaching research skills as part of everyday instruction
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June 21, 2013 9:22 AM
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HERE’S a multiple-choice question: if the federal government penalises states where pupils do badly in school, but lets the states themselves set the pass mark, will the states a) make the tests harder; or b) dumb them down?
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June 21, 2013 7:28 AM
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National standards will help local learning, not federal control.
"Governors and state education officials, alarmed that U.S. students were being outpaced globally, banded together to develop clear and consistent standards. This sensible and badly needed reform should not be derailed by misguided and misinformed opposition."
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June 20, 2013 5:52 PM
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Students today are hyper connected to information, but do they know how to research? Nope.
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June 20, 2013 5:48 PM
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Ohio’s switch to the PARCC exams, and its implications for teachers’ value-added scores
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June 20, 2013 3:35 PM
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In what could be considered the social media decade, there’s often a conundrum in today’s classrooms: Students need writing and critical thinking skills more than ever, but with the proliferation of social media, formal writing is quickly going the...
