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Monthly Archives: February 2015
NNCCS 2015 Juicy Sentences Session
The instructional move Juicy Sentences was shared at the Northern Nevada Council for Social Studies 2015 Conference. Juicy Sentences, created by academic Lily Wong Fillmore, has student diving into syntax to make, as Fillmore describes, “the invisible, visible.” You can … Continue reading
Posted in Social Studies
Tagged examples, juicy sentence, Lily Wong Fillmore, notetaker, PowerPoint, Social Studies
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Dr. Frederick Hess, Author of Cage-Busting Leadership, Coming to Reno
Dr. Frederick Hess will be visiting Washoe County School District this Friday as part of the Leadership Institute of Nevada. If you don’t know Dr. Hess’ work, and if you are not attending the event, it might be worth watching … Continue reading
Posted in Professional Development
Tagged AEI, Basis, Cage-Busting, Equity Project, Frederick Hess, Nevada
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Core Task implementation Project, Session 5: Syntax
The focus for the February sessions of the Core Task implementation Project (CTiP) has educators working with the importance of teaching syntax—both why and how. This learning started with a video from Dr. Lily Wong Fillmore followed by reading how … Continue reading
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Tagged Diedrichsen, juicy sentences, notetaker, PowerPoint, syntax, Wong Fillmore
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Early Elementary Document Based Questions
2nd grade teacher Chris Hayes and Washoe’s Social Studies Coordinator Angela Orr have been working on creating Document Based Questions (DBQs) for the primary grades with connections to the Core Knowledge Domains. Their first efforts are linked below and Angela and … Continue reading
Posted in Social Studies
Tagged 2nd Grade, DBQ, Document Based Questions, Greek Myths
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CTL 746 Presentation Materials
Students in Dr. Margaret Ferrara’s CTL 746 class—a course focused on the principles of curriculum development—moved through some foundational pieces on the Nevada Academic Content Standards and the Common Core. Participants learned about the instructional shifts, the Instructional Practice Guides, … Continue reading
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Tagged Common Core, IPG, Margaret Ferrara, NVACS, university of nevada reno, UNR, Willingham
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35 Mini-Assessments Added to 63000Resources.com
The full set of Mini-Assessments has been added to http://www.63000resources.com through the link here. The Mini-Assessments are well aligned to the Next Generation Assessments and teachers throughout Washoe have discovered that they are a good gauge of how students are … Continue reading
Posted in SBAC
Tagged assessments, Common Core, Great Fire, Marco Polo, SBAC, Swans, Walk Two Moons
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Darling-Hammond & Polikoff on Standards and Assessment
In a presentation before the Maryland State Education Association, Stanford professor Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond and University of Southern California professor Dr. Morgan Polikoff overview the Common Core State Standards and contextualize previous state standards and assessments. Certainly worth watching the … Continue reading
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Tagged assessments, CCSS, Common Core, Darling-Hammond, Polikoff, skills
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Core Knowledge Overview Session Materials
At the district’s February 6th Blue Friday, Implementation Specialists could attend a session to overview the Core Knowledge materials and a second session on specific Core Knowledge implementation successes and challenges. Both sessions included opportunities to clarify misconceptions including the … Continue reading
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Tagged Core Knowledge, founational skills, plan-do-study-act, PowerPoint
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Ed Leadership 703 Presentation Materials
Listed below are the presentation materials shared in Educational Leadership 703 course at the University of Nevada, Reno. This was part of an effort to inform graduate students about the Common Core, the instructional shifts, and the implications for classroom … Continue reading
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Tagged CCSS, Common Core, PowerPoint, university of nevada reno, UNR
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Core Task Project 