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Monthly Archives: July 2013
Lake Charles, LA Materials
Elements of the Core Task Project were shared in Lake Charles, Louisiana this week. The elementary (here) and secondary (here) PowerPoints include links to the video and the toolkits from NASSP, NAESP, NEA, and NASBE. The Instructional Practice Guides (aka … Continue reading
Posted in Core Task Project
Tagged CCSS, Close Reading, Common Core State Standards, Core Task Project, Lake Charles, Louisiana
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K-2 Creating Aligned Materials Opportunity!
If you participate in the Basal Alignment Project Edmodo group, you may have seen the following post by Meredith Liben of Student Achievement Partners. If you did not, it is worth reading the announcement below. The Read-aloud Alignment Project (RAP) … Continue reading
CCSS “Aligned” Materials
Edweek reports on publishers sharing “aligned” resources with educational consumers. Catherine Gewertz describes several of these materials to demonstrate that some of these “alignments” deserve our skepticism. You can read the entire article here. Washoe is using of the Tri-State … Continue reading
Posted in Common Core State Standards
Tagged aligned, CCSS, Common Core State Standards, EQuIP, Gewertz, Rubric
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NEW Instructional Practice Guides (aka Evidence Guides)
The Evidence Guides, which were shared as part of the inservice course Advancing Literacy Practice with the Core, have been updated by Student Achievement Partners and are now called the CCSS Instructional Practice Guides. The guides remain in grade level … Continue reading
Common Core Test Costs
EdWeek reports on what it will costs states, per student, to administer their exams in ELA and math. For PARCC, this works out to be $29.50 per student and for SBAC, $22.50 per student. For an additional $4.80 per student, … Continue reading
Posted in SBAC
Tagged assessment, Common Core, Costs, Exam, Formative, Interim, PARCC, SBAC, Test
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Teachers Reflect on CCSS, the ‘Shifts,’ and Close Reading
In a video produced by EngageNY, educators in New York reflect on their implementation of the Common Core. Teachers address topics including the instructional shifts, close reading, and text-dependent questions. You can watch the video here.
Posted in Instructional Shifts
Tagged Close Reading, EngageNY, instructional shifts, New York, teachers, video
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Advancing Literacy Practice with the Core 7/22&7/23
Washoe educators worked through the last summer session of the inservice course Advancing Literacy Practice with the Common Core. This is the fourth posting about the course and you can access many of the materials included in the session here. … Continue reading
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Tagged Close Reading, Common Core State Standards, David Coleman, David Pearson, Evidence Guides, Joe Wilhoft, SAP, SBAC
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Conservatives for Common Core
Conservatives for Higher Standards has created a website detailing their support the Common Core State Standards. The website explains why groups, traditionally skeptical of large educational initiatives, favor the CCSS effort. You can access the website here which includes sections … Continue reading
Scoring Guides for SBAC Practice Tests
In May we linked to the SBAC Practice Test (here). SBAC has subsequently released scoring guides for each grade level test that you can find here. The scoring guides are available for ELA and math and include sample responses to … Continue reading
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Tagged CCSS, Common Core State Standards, Practice Tests, SBAC, Scoring Guides
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The Limitations of Using Readability Scores
Relying on the quantitative features of text complexity can be limiting and misleading. This is nicely demonstrated in a video posted by Montgomery County Public Schools (here) in which viewers learn how changing two words in a passage lowers the … Continue reading
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