Aaron Grossman
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Monthly Archives: May 2013
Help Build SBAC’s Digital Library
The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium is looking for educators to join their team and help build a digital library. They hope to recruit 92 educators with expertise in any of the following: Formative assessment (e.g., collecting evidence of student learning … Continue reading
CL’s Meet to Learn about SS Units and Evidence Guides
Curriculum Leaders gathered to learn more about the Evidence Guides and social studies units for grades 4th through 6th. The units focus on important grade level outcomes from mining to Colonial America to Ancient Egypt. CLs reviewed one unit, Colonial … Continue reading
Assessment and Instruction in the Era of CCSS
University of North Carolina Greensboro professor Dr. Karen Wixson shares a webinar on the CCSS and the instructional shifts. There are several key pieces of information that are worth reviewing including: a) the “claims” are driving the assessment and not … Continue reading
Educators Work through CTP Materials
At Teach Fest, Learnzillion educators worked through elements of the Core Task Project. They talked about the close reading strategy, identified features of complex text and studied the guide to writing text-dependent questions. The Powerpoint can be found here and … Continue reading
PSA on the Common Core State Standards
The Council of Great City Schools has created several Public Service Announcements around the Common Core. Described as an explanation of the CCSS, the videos are an approachable way to give parents and community member’s context for why the CCSS … Continue reading
Core Task Project 