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"How To Do Research" game is presented by Kentucky Virtual Library. It's designed for kids to learn how to do research independently with kids-friendly user experience. Did you know that you can ac... 
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Parents will soon be told whether their children are “on the road” to college readiness based on cut scores on tests of the new Common Core standards. But there is no evidence the scores will have any meaning.
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Preparing for Common Core requires schools to move resources to the cloud, roll out robust wireless and develop mobile programs.
Ralph E. Johnson's curator insight,
April 9, 2013 5:28 PM
Technological resources will have to continue to be included within the mainstream of students in Pk-16 schools today.
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A great deal has been written about the impact of retrieval practice on memory. That's because the effect is sizable, it has been replicated many times (Agarwal, Bain & Chamberlain, 2012) and it...
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CCSS activities that bring literacy lessons into the science lab. Teachers are expected to incorporate literacy instruction throughout the curriculum, and students are expected to read (and understand) as much informational text as they do fiction. "it’s really about teaching kids the skills to become good scientists, which includes being good readers.” Scientists, she says, have to be able to read articles and journals—review the research—before they can build experiments or projects of their own."
Mary Reilley Clark's curator insight,
April 8, 2013 3:10 PM
For the mnenomic OPTIC alone, this article is worth reading! Share with science teachers looking to incorporate CCSS into their curriculum.
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How do we incorporate the Common Core's complex texts in a way that students will read, engage with, debate, and discuss? Join us as we explore non-freaked implementation.
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The tools you need to prepare for the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and the upcoming Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) assessments are now available to all educators.
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The industrial economy that typified the twentieth century has been replaced by what has been dubbed the “knowledge” economy.
Bruce Deitrick Price's comment,
April 11, 2013 7:06 PM
Trendy view i was objecting to in "Let us now praise knowing stuff"--also on this page.
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Key findings from the NCLE survey, explored in more detail in the body of the report, yield the following conclusions about how US educators are currently working together to meet rising literacy expectations and how best to support them going forward.
Mel Riddile's insight:
Teacher collaboration requires time, effort, and the commitment of a strong, resolute school leader. The National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) and the Breaking Ranks Framework have consistently promoted the need to foster a collaborative culture of accountability based on mutual trust and shared responsibility. NASSP has joined 29 other leading organizations for educators in serving as a stakeholder in the newly formed National Center for Literacy Education (NCLE).
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Eye On Education by Lauren Davis The Common Core’s Anchor Standard 6 for writing in grades K–12 requires students to “use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others” (emphasis mine). Here are some ideas for meeting this standard (besides the obvious use of technology—word processing).
Joan Cansdale's curator insight,
April 6, 2013 12:05 PM
Excellent technology resources for all teachers.
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Today's post revisits close reading and considers it in the context of a literacy block. We argue that you don't have to make time for close reading, but can integrate it into existing structures.
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More than 360 schools in Missouri are participating in a pilot program this spring to test a new assessment system based on the Common Core State Standards for English language. All schools will have the opportunity to participate in practice tests, beginning this summer, to give staff and students experience with the Smarter Balanced assessments. The practice tests can also be used to show parents, policy makers and community members how the new assessment system will work. Preparing students for college and careers is a primary goal of the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education's Top 10 by 20 initiative, which calls for education in Missouri to rank among the Top 10 states in the nation by the year 2020.
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“Three nonselective high schools in Fairfax, Va., outperformed the average of virtually every country in the world.” One of them, W.T. Woodson, outperformed every region in the world in reading, except Shanghai."
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The industrial economy that typified the twentieth century has been replaced by what has been dubbed the “knowledge” economy.
Bruce Deitrick Price's comment,
April 11, 2013 7:06 PM
Trendy view i was objecting to in "Let us now praise knowing stuff"--also on this page.
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The two federally funded groups designing tests for the common standards are awaiting feedback from pilot and field testing before making the decision.
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'For the first time in almost half a century, education administrators and policymakers around the country are seriously discussing the role of a content-based curriculum in raising student achievement.' E. D. Hirsch
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Seems like everywhere I go, educators are asking "What is this 'close reading' thing and how do I teach it?" The buzz on close reading has become so great that many think close reading is simply an...
Mary Reilley Clark's curator insight,
April 8, 2013 3:22 PM
I love this point from Dr. Dea: Therefore, I suggest two types of close reading for such [scrupulously written] documents: one that values the rhetorical or literary nature of the text–art and a second that explores the relationship of the art within the frame–the disciplinary context.
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By Gail Connelly, Executive Director of the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP)
"School culture is hard to characterize and cultivate, but it's arguably the defining factor in school change. Shifting culture could prove to be the trickiest — but most essential — piece of today's most pressing education challenge: implementing the Common Core State Standards."
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April 6, 2013 11:12 AM
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Read how playful thinking helps students become comfortable with difficult problems and mathematical discourse.
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April 5, 2013 11:40 AM
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"Commissioner John King (NY) described the new tests as challenging, requiring students to provide deeper analysis of written texts and demonstrate a thorough understanding of math concepts.
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April 4, 2013 4:27 PM
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In this video podcast How Fiction and Nonfiction Can Interact in the Common Core Classroom, Lauren Davis sets the record straight on how much fiction is still allowed in the Common Core, how it can be taught along with nonfiction, and provides suggestions for selecting and incorporating engaging nonfiction texts.
Will Common Core kill literature? According to this podcast, fiction and non-fiction can coexist in the classroom. (It says "video podcast," but you only need to listen--not much worth watching).
As teachers, we need to expose our students to more texts where they meet the CCS . Test scores improve with more exposure to these novels.
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Question-Asking: Intentional and Powerful When teachers carefully select and craft their questions, students respond with thinking, wondering, reflection and overall cognition – in other words, the...
