Thirteen examples of how teachers have made feedback (as opposed to advice and evaluation) more central to their work with students:
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Education achievement tests in Kentucky, the first in the nation tied to the state Common Core Standards, shows a drop in student achievement for both elementary and middle school students. 
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The Writing Across the Curriculum movement has successfully introduced faculty across disciplines to a variety of writing, including very informal writing that faculty do not necessarily read or grade.
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By Michael Graves
After working for nearly 50 years as an educator, I am all too frequently chagrined by how much we do not know, by how many questions about teaching remain unanswered. But there is one thing we absolutely do know: We know how to effectively teach individual words!
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By Christina Hank A few months ago I was invited by Student Achievement Partners (achievethecore.org) to become a “Common Core Advocate” with 100 other educators across the nation. 3 Math Shifts 1. Focus: Focus strongly where the standards focus
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William Schmidt States whose previous standards were most similar to the Common Core performed better on a national math test in 2009.
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All of the achievement gaps between whites and blacks and Hispanic in each grade, in both reading and math, increased from the KCCT to the K-PREP tests, with the exception of the gap in 3rd grade math and 5th grade math between whites and blacks.
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Writing and Teaching: Common Core and Argument Basic principles of argumentation: 1. State your position. 2. Provide reasons or evidence for your position. 3. Provide counterarguments or refutations of opposing arguments.
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Indiana State Superintendent of Schools Tony Bennett has advanced some great reforms, but he gambled big in adopting the national Common Core education standards in a state that had some of the best state standards in the country and is...
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The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) released in June 2010 the Common Core State Standards (CCS) for instruction, providing states for the first time with common standards for all students in English/language arts and mathematics.
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On the new tests, the first in the nation to be explicitly aligned to the common core, students scoring "proficient" or better fell by a third or more.
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Recommendations: 1. Make sure educators deeply understand the standards and the key instructional shifts they require. 2. Vet instructional resources for quality and alignment with the standards. 3. Transform principals into instructional leaders. 4. Listen to educators about their professional learning needs. 5. Maximize opportunities for collaboration and capacity building through professional learning. 6. Engage higher-education partners. 7. Understand and plan for the coming common assessments. 8. Adopt technology to meet teaching and learning needs but that will also work with the new assessments. 9. Align initiatives into comprehensive reforms.
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ROCK HILL: Award winning Rock Hill principal discusses strategy for getting students to read | Featured Stories | Rock Hill Herald Online South Carolina literacy advocates were so impressed with Sullivan Middle’s push to stoke interest in reading, they named the Rock Hill school’s principal, Michael Waiksnis, administrator of the year.
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The poll of 600 Pennsylvanians, conducted for the Pennsylvania Business Council Education Foundation, shows that 80 percent of those surveyed had heard, seen, or read nothing about the common standards. Of the 20 percent who knew about them, six in 10 said that what they had heard made them more inclined to support them, and three in 10 said they'd be less inclined to do so.
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By Christina Hank Nov. 5, 2012 A few months ago I was invited by Student Achievement Partners (achievethecore.org) to become a “Common Core Advocate” with 100 other educators across the nation. 3 ELA Shifts: 1. Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction
2. Reading, writing, and speaking grounded in evidence from text, both literary and informational
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Three years ago, the University of Memphis scrapped its ages-old teacher education major and started over.
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Watch how you can do a literacy analysis with your High School students using evidence and arguments.
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Kentucky unveiled its test results last Friday, and they weren't pretty. "the percent of students scoring proficient dropped by about one third" That wasn't quite as bad as Kentucky had predicted, but it was certainly enough to warrant the public-relations push it spent months developing. State officials took pains to explain that this is what happens when tougher standards and tougher tests hold our children to higher expectations. Kentucky's hardly the only state using—or planning to use—this approach. states are readying themselves for similar communications challenges as their test scores show similar drops in the coming months.
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States within the PARCC consortium now have established a common benchmark to define the academic preparation necessary for college and career readiness. The CCRD policy defines the level of academic preparation in English language arts/literacy and mathematics needed for students to be successful in entry-level, credit-bearing courses in two- and four-year public institutions of higher education. These institutions include technical colleges and other institutions that award degrees or credentials aligned to entry requirements of middle- or high-skilled jobs. "The adoption of the CCRD also signals that the PARCC assessments will have meaning for students as they progress through high school and beyond. Students who achieve at the CCR level on the high school assessments will be able to enter directly into certain entry-level, credit-bearing courses in those subject areas without having to take placement tests."
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Over the past year, educators in Colorado have been fine tuning their curriculum and instruction to the new literacy standards published by the Common Core State Standards initiative (CCSS) which were adopted by our Colorado Department of Education. Academic specialists have identified 6 Pedagogical Shifts demanded by the Common Core State Standards in Literacy.
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Sheila Brown, and Lee Kappes. 2012. The Aspen Institute To assist teachers in understanding and employing the Common Core instructional emphasis on Close Reading in the classroom, this primer addresses the following key questions: 1) What is Close Reading of text, and what are its essential attributes? How, and for what purposes, should teachers employ this strategy? 2) What is the role of background knowledge in the development of reading comprehension, and when should teachers activate and/or provide background knowledge? 3) What should teachers and district leaders consider about Close Reading as they prepare to implement it in practice?
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