Education Week by Catherine Gewertz
Tests now being designed for the common standards are likely to gauge deeper levels of learning and have a major impact on classroom instruction, according to a study of the common assessments released today.
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The Georgia State Department of Education believes that support for teachers is essential in effectively implementing these standards. Several professional video learning sessions are available, along with presentations and other resources. 
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by Barbara Blackburn Eye on Education 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. You’re looking for abalance: Material should be difficult enough that students are learning something new, but not so hard that they give up.
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According to Turnitin, these are the 10 most popular writing resources and sites that university and college students use in their writing.
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To help your students master the art of revision, we’ve put together a brilliant collection of free teaching resources including Jedi mind-trick lesson plans, revision games, the 10 commandments of exam success and ways to identify personal...
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Common Core Shift 6 suggests that it is important to dig deeper into Tier II vocabulary words. Tier II words are those words that are found across many content areas and change meaning depending on context.
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By Marc Tucker Most of the arguments I have heard against the Common Core State Standards strike me as hardly worth responding to...
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In the Trenches: Common Core Literacy Lesson Plans Eye On Education The Common Core State Standards ask teachers to shift from teaching persuasion to teaching argument. Unlike persuasion, argumentation relies more on claims and evidence and less on emotional appeals.
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The modern definition of learning, school, and college is an evolving mix of education and technology jargon. So what does that mean for current students?
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By Mel Riddile, Associate Director of High School Services at the National Association of Secondary Principals (NASSP) Principal leadership matters--perhaps now more than ever before. As much as the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are changing instructional practice in the classroom, we must acknowledge that student learning under CCSS requires a schoolwide transformation that transcends individual classrooms and requires the dedicated, continual attention of the principal. Consider how these five essential schoolwide conditions for CCSS will fundamentally shift the way principals go about leading schools.
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Though socioeconomic status, class size, and teacher credentials certainly are important, research indicates that collective efficacy—a shared belief among teachers that they can help students succeed—has the greatest impact on student achievement (Goodwin, 2010) "Research suggests students learn best in a pleasant, friendly climate where they
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The recent controversy over how much fiction and non-fiction high school students are supposed to read under the Common Core State Standards begged the question of where the 70 percent non-fiction 30 percent fiction for seniors actually came from and how English classes should look.
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January 11, 2013 8:19 AM
Fantastic article that dispels the myth that the CCSS wants to eliminate literature. |
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Education News The ability to search the internet effectively is an important — if not the most important — research skill for today’s students.
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Education News As a majority of the nation’s schools prepare to adopt the new Common Core State Standards, the tests that will assess how much students actually know are comi…
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Georgia’s ELA Common Core implementation website is housed on three pages with important links found on each. The main page, The Common Core Georgia Performance Standards (screenshot above), provides an overview of the CCSS as performance standards and provides links (that can be found elsewhere as well) to professional development archives of webinars and handouts.
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Getting “Real” about the Common Core and High Expectations « Co-Creating Solutions: A Blog by CTL
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January 14, 2013 4:48 PM
The Common Core State Standards demonstrates what high expectations look like.
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This is a basic overview of The Common Core, for workshop presentations in Massachusetts
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A set of new guides to the Common Core State Standards offers a solution, of sorts, to abrewing controversy about the balance of fiction and nonfiction in U.S. classrooms. "Informational text" doesn't have to displace fiction, the guides say, if the overall amount of reading students do increases "dramatically."
But in exploring the instructional shifts in the standards, they also offer common-core advocates' answer to teachers who are worried that assigning a much heftier chunk of nonfiction will force them to drop cherished parts of their literary canon.
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by Mel Riddile Get Schooled Atlanta Journal Constitution December 28, 2012 Mel Riddile is the associate director for high school services at the National Association of Secondary School Principals. His work in turning around schools in Virginia earned him the 2006 MetLife/NASSP National High School Principal of the Year award.
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By Mel Riddile, Associate Director of High School Services at the National Association of Secondary Principals (NASSP) Principal leadership matters--perhaps now more than ever before. As much as the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are changing instructional practice in the classroom, we must acknowledge that student learning under CCSS requires a schoolwide transformation that transcends individual classrooms and requires the dedicated, continual attention of the principal. Consider how these five essential schoolwide conditions for CCSS will fundamentally shift the way principals go about leading schools.
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