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Monthly Archives: September 2012
Analyzing Texts: “Text Talk Time”
Teaching Channel recently posted this video in which the teacher facilitates a conversation around a careful analysis of a text. In “Text Talk Time,” children drive the discussion and answer their peers’ questions. Ms. Brewer, the teacher in the video, … Continue reading
ELA Text Exemplars
North Carolina has put together the following document that links ELA text exemplars, listed in Appendix B, to their full text on the Internet (here). Note, however, that the suggested texts are not a reading list. Instead they serve as … Continue reading
Washoe Starts the 6th Grade Basal Alignment Project
Under the stewardship of staff from Curriculum & Instruction and the Striving Readers Grant, Washoe County has started a 6th grade version of the Basal Alignment Project. The process is just beginning with a completion date of December 2012 having … Continue reading
Materials used in Shift 1 Presentation September 12, 2012
A number of Washoe educators gathered to explore Shift 1—the importance of building general content knowledge. The discussions focused on a presentation by Robert Pondiscio, Vice President of Core Knowledge (Part I & Part II), and a review of a … Continue reading
Core Shift Blast: Shifting with the BAP
The Core Shift Blast was emailed this morning. You can subscribe to it by emailing Torrey Palmer at TFPalmer@washoeschools.net. You can retrieve previous blasts by clicking here. This week the primary focus is on the Basal Alignment Project (BAP). A … Continue reading
NCTQ and the BAP
The National Council on Teacher Quality posted on the Basal Alignment Project this week. Rob Rickenbrode, writing for the NCTQ describes, the BAP as an “innovative and elegant workaround to the problem” of having basal materials not aligned to the CCSS. … Continue reading
Quick Guide to the Common Core
Tom Vander Ark, vice president of product development at Curriculum Associates, has created a “quick guide” to the Common Core. It serves as a succinct overview of what we need to do as we implement the CCSS.
Presentation materials from 9/7 before IS’s
On Friday, K-6 ELA staff from C&I focused on “Aligning Literacy Instruction to the CCSS.” They looked at Learning Outcomes outlined in the standards, current PL and PD offerings from C&I, and reviewed the Basal Alignment Project. Below are the … Continue reading
America Achieves Films in Reno
As some of you may already know, America Achieves was in Reno to film Washoe educators describing their experience with the Core Task Project and the Close Reading Strategy. The video will likely be posted in February and other districts … Continue reading
Core Task Project 