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Monthly Archives: January 2013
BAP at 11,000 users
Edweek reports that the Basal Alignment Project is now at 11,000 users and you can read how this became the largest Edmodo community here. The Council of Great City Schools also weighs in with a press release in which Council Executive … Continue reading
Social Emotional Learning and the CCSS Day 2
Day Two of the Social Emotional Learning and Core Task Project experiment concluded with participants reviewing the anchor standards for SEL and reading an article on grit by Thomas Hoerr. K-6 teachers studied several close reading exemplars before building a … Continue reading
Posted in Social Emotional Learning
Tagged CCSS, Common Core State Standards, Hoerr, Sam Shoolroy, SEL, Social Emotional Learning
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Martinez’s State of Education Address
This evening, Superintendent Pedro Martinez gave his State of Education Address. During the speech, he played a snippet of video of College Board President David Coleman describing the CCSS and the instructional shifts. You can access the entire video by … Continue reading
The CCSS and Evidenced-Centered Design
If you are trying to understand how SBAC and PARCC will be assessing students in 2014-2015, the following webinar by Alliance for Excellent Education, provides a number of answers. Joan Herman, at the University of California, Los Angeles, explains Evidenced-Centered Design … Continue reading
“Simplifying” Complex Text
How do you identify complex texts? And how do you design tasks that take into account text complexity? These two questions are featured in this video from Sarah Brown Wessling. The video is a nice place to start for educators … Continue reading
Enough Vocabulary?
Are your kindergarteners working with enough vocabulary? Research by Wright and Neuman, and recently published in the Elementary School Journal, concludes that children are not. Specifically, most reading programs expose children to 2 words each week and it is recommended … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Vocabulary, Common Core State Standards
Tagged academic vocabulary, CCSS, Neuman, Shift 6, Wright
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Selecting Texts for Close Reading
Jan Burkins and Kim Yaris outline the importance of picking the right texts for close reading. That is, educators need to be acutely aware that texts worth reading will force students “to look and look again and wonder about what … Continue reading
Posted in Close Reading, Common Core State Standards
Tagged Burkins, CCSS, Close Reading, Common Core State Standards, Yaris
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Basal Alignment Project at 10,000 Users
EdWeek reports on the Basal Alignment Project growing to 10,000 users. As the article notes, the BAP is “an online library of revised replacement lessons from common basal reading series (3rd-5th grades) each carefully aligned to the Common Core State Standards” … Continue reading
Social Emotional Learning and the Common Core
The district paired Social Emotional Learning and the Core Task Project as a means of seeing how the two projects could work with each other. Kindergarten through sixth grade teachers gathered and moved through the first day of content which included … Continue reading
A Volume of Reading
Perry-Lecompton Unified School District created a graphic demonstrating the importance of a volume of reading. You can find the graphic here. Educators often share with stakeholders that reading a lot is important and the graphic helps make the point.
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