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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Author James Patterson: It's up to parents, not teachers, to get ball rolling with kids (especially boys) reading--luckily there are plenty of resources to help. 
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Resources Find additional resources to support your literacy work, including:
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While the Common Core State Standards Initiative has produced a formidable set of goals that set very clear expectations for reading, writing, and speaking standards at each grade level, we have significant reservations about their implementation.
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According to the author, who supports the Standards, successful implementation will depend on the following: 1. Funding 2. New assessments will be much more rigorous 3. Costs of the new assessments 4. Teacher training 5. Teacher load and class size "To successfully implement the Common Core Standards, we will need smaller class sizes, more support for English and History teachers, and more support for underserved schools and districts. We also need to require kids to learn how to read, and to read a lot more!"
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Scenes in Movies in which some Mathematics appears
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by Burkins & Yaris close reading (klohs ree ding), v Rereading for the purpose of recognizing details and nuances of text that may go unnoticed during a cursory first read so that new understandings and insights may reveal themselves
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NCTE author Sarah Brown Wessling offers inspiring ways to think about the CCSS and reminds us that the CCSS are more than a checklist of tasks, but a map for...
Meryl Jaffe, PhD's curator insight,
January 24, 2013 9:23 AM
Sarah Brown Wessling eloquently and persuasively relates what the CCSS are asking of us.
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Is student reading fluency really getting better? Are they really becoming better readers?
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Tom Vander Ark None of those old basal textbooks are aligned to the Common Core State Standards, but they all include great content. What to do? About 10,000 teachers on Edmodo have turned to the The Basal Alignment Project, an online library of revised replacement lessons from common basal reading series (3rd-5th grades) each carefully aligned to the Common Core State Standards (Edmodo Group code: etuyrm).
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Video: Barbara Blackburn on Rigor > Eye On Education
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Writing plays a key part in your life. Whether you're a blogger, teacher, administrator, or someone else ... writing (and therefore proofreading) is a critical skill.
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By David McKay Wilson Adopting the Common Core Standards has meant a big change in how and when math is learned, and taught, in our public schools.
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In Rigor is NOT A Four-Letter Word, 2nd Edition, Barbara Blackbun explains how to increase rigor so that all students can each higher levels of learning." To increase rigor related to text selection, it is valuable first to simply look at whether or not your students are reading texts that challenge them.
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The words “Common Core Standards” have been on the tongues of education experts for the last year, and no wonder — almost every state has now committed to implementing the CCS and putting it into practice as early …...
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The implementation of the Common Core State Standards is underway, and the imminent transition that will affect most American public schools is sparking a wide variety of reactions among educators ...
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Get a handle on Text Complexity with the help of Sarah Brown Wessling. See a presentation covering Text Complexity that includes the 3 part model for measuring text complexity. She also provides tips on applying Text Complexity to your classroom.
Lindsey Hogan's curator insight,
January 24, 2013 10:57 AM
Excellent video with thorough explanation of text complexity. It's very approachable, would be great for staff development.
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By Burkins and Yaris Here are five ways you can start stretching:
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by E. D. Hirsch, Jr., City Journal WInter 2013 The key to increasing upward mobility is expanding vocabulary. So there’s a positive correlation between a student’s vocabulary size in grade 12, the likelihood that she will graduate from college, and her future level of income. The reason is clear: vocabulary size is a convenient proxy for a whole range of educational attainments and abilities—not just skill in reading, writing, listening, and speaking but also general knowledge of science, history, and the arts. If we want to reduce economic inequality in America, a good place to start is the language-arts classroom.
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"English teachers don’t have to abandon their favorite works in favor of nonfiction." “We English teachers love our literature, and the greater emphasis on nonfiction texts was uncomfortable for some of us,” she says. But now, her students actually like it. She kept them in the loop during the transition, beginning by showing them their own reading-level scores."
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"Only 42 percent of district officials are confident that they have adequate technology to administer computer-based assessment in 2014-15. A lack of hardware, a lack of bandwidth, and above all, a lack of time. Those were among the biggest concerns voiced by Missouri school administrators in a recent statewide survey taken to gauge their capacity to handle the technology requirements associated with implementing online assessments as part of the Common Core State Standards."
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Charlene Heidewald Wagner's curator insight,
February 9, 2013 7:04 PM
Super reasoning when explaining students need One to one with tech
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Promethean Planet Lessons & Instructional Materials - Nonfiction Text Features. This flipchart reviews common nonfiction text features including:
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Welcome to HyperGrammar electronic grammar course at the University of Ottawa's Writing Centre. This course covers approximately the same ground as our English department's ENG 1320 Grammar course. The content ofHyperGrammar is the result of the collaborative work of the four instructors who were teaching the course in Fall 1993: Heather MacFadyen, David Megginson, Frances Peck, and Dorothy Turner. David Megginson was then responsible for editing the grammar and exercises and for converting them to SGML.