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Monthly Archives: June 2014
Instructional Move 7: Quiz, Quiz, Trade
Quiz, Quiz, Trade is a learning strategy that that has students working with multiple partners to review key learning outcomes. The move allows for practice with a large problem set and for students to use each other to problem solve … Continue reading
Posted in Classroom Management
Tagged 2nd Grade, 4th grade, classroom management, Common Core, high school, PowerPoint, quiz quiz trade
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Instructional Move Number 8: Stand Up, Hand Up, Pair Up
In this move, student pair up with other students in the classroom to do two things: 1) share an academic problem they have been working on and 2) work on the problem their partner shares with them. Naturally, there are … Continue reading
Posted in Classroom Management
Tagged CCSS, classroom management, Common Core, Kagan, SEL
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Instructional Move Number 9: Keep It Or Junk It
Two years ago I posted on a move titled, Keep It or Junk It. The approach has students identifying vocabulary from a text they feel is relevant to answering a focus question instead of the teacher prioritizing words for the … Continue reading
Instructional Move Number 10: Cold Call
“Cold Call” is outlined in Doug Lemov’s book Teach Like a Champion. The move involves calling on students whether they have their hands up or not. The technique has the advantages of keeping the pace of the class moving, increasing … Continue reading
Instructional Moves to Help you with the Common Core
Over the course of the last three years, as teachers asked for assistance with the implementation of the Common Core State Standards, three questions consistently came up: What is the research that governs why we are being asked to shift … Continue reading
Social Emotional Learning and CCSS Presentation Materials
As part of an effort to bridge the Common Core State Standards and Social Emotional Learning, district educators worked to find classroom examples and instructional techniques that addressed both outcomes simultaneously. This was part of the SEL Site-Based Implementation Training. … Continue reading
Posted in Social Emotional Learning
Tagged CCSS, Common Core, Dweck, lesson demonstrations, PERMA, PowerPoint, SEL, Seligman, Social Emotional Learning
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Integrating Fluency and Syntax Instruction with Complex Text
In the video linked here, Dr. Timothy Shanahan describes the value of students developing fluency with “hard” text and its syntax. Although the video is short, it is includes a lot of good information including a short lesson demonstration of … Continue reading
Posted in Complex Text
Tagged fluency, lesson demonstration, Shanahan, syntax, Text Complexity, video
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EQuIP Review Process, Reviewed
Implementation specialists and district instructional coaches worked through an introduction to the EQuIP Review Process. Educators spent the morning learning about the creation of the rubrics, becoming familiar with the EQuIP quality review process, and applying the first dimension of … Continue reading
Posted in Common Core State Standards
Tagged Ain't I a Woman, CCSS, Common Core, EQuIP, materials, units
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Lemov’s 4 Imperatives of the Common Core
The New Schools Venture Fund hosted a conference on Common Core and included a session titled, Teaching Literacy in the New World of CCSS (video linked here). At minute 4:11 Doug Lemov, managing director of Uncommon Schools and author of … Continue reading
Posted in Common Core State Standards
Tagged CCSS, Close Reading, Common Core, harder, nonfiction, pondiscio. lemov, uncommon schools
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CTP at ToPPP Grant Showcase
The ToPPP Grant Showcase, a 13-member consortium in Washinton, D.C., is featuring school leaders, partner organizations, teachers, representatives from PARCC and the Core Task Project. They have gathered these educators to spur dialogue around the question: How can collaboration support … Continue reading
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Tagged CCSS, Common Core State Standards, Core Task Project, CTP, PARCC, Washington D.C.
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Core Task Project 