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Category Archives: Common Core State Standards
Free Resources I’m Using to Help with SBAC and CCSS
Trying to have students secure all of the skills and content they will need to be successful with the Common Core, the Nevada Academic Content Standards, and Smarter Balanced can feel daunting. (Rather, IT IS daunting.) Consequently, I am trying … Continue reading
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Tagged CCSS, free, noredink, NVACS, SBAC, Smarter Balanced, typingclub
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Presentation Before the Reno Lodge 13 – Free & Accepted Masons of Nevada
Reno Lodge 13 – Free & Accepted Masons of Nevada gathered for their monthly meeting which including a presentation on the Common Core State Standards. Dr. Amy Weber-Salgo and I reviewed the difference between standards, assessment and curriculum before reviewing … Continue reading
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Tagged CCSS, Common Core, Free Masons, NeadaReady!, PowerPoint, Reno
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Repeal of Common Core Testimony—Three Things I Think Deserve Qualification
If you were unable to see the testimony from the Assembly Bill 303 hearing—the bill that would repeal Common Core in Nevada—you can access it here. A number of thoughtful and passionate stakeholders shared their opinion about the CCSS including … Continue reading
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Tagged AB303, CCSS, Common Core, curriculum, Nevada, repeal, stotsky
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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
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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
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Tagged CCSS, Close Reading, Common Core, harder, nonfiction, pondiscio. lemov, uncommon schools
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Nevada Students and Educators Describe Common Core
In a video posted here, a number of students and educators explain why they support the Common Core. The video was developed by the Nevada Ready! initiative, an effort by the Nevada Department of Education and the Nevada State Board … Continue reading
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Tagged CCSS, College and Career Readiness, Common Core, Nevada, NVACS
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Updated ‘Planning for the Core’ Templates
If you are planning for the next academic school year with an eye on the instructional shifts and attention to the Basal Alignment Project, Read Aloud Project, and the close read exemplars, the documents below will help. Each is a … Continue reading
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Tagged BAP, CCSS, close reads, instructional shifts, planning, RAP, template, tool
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New Materials Posted at 63000resources
Additional resources have been added to http://www.63000resources.com. As with everything at 63000resources, the items are free and well matched to a highly core aligned classroom. The materials include A syntax section where you will find an overview of “Juicy Sentences.” … Continue reading
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Tagged CCSS, Close Reading, Gerhke, Jessie Leidy, juicy sentences, PowerPoint, syntax, text talk, UNR
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The Business Roundtable and their Endorsement of CCSS
The Business Roundtable and their Endorsement of CCSS If you have wondered why the business community has endorsed the Common Core, you can learn why in a video posted here. At minute 21:10, Scott Fast, Executive Director of Accenture Foundation … Continue reading
Common Core ELA Shift Song
Shawn Leer, an Implementation Specialist in Area 5, has written and recorded the following song about the Common Core. Titled, “You Gotta”, Shawn has cleverly managed to describe the instructional shifts and the Instructional Practice Guides (IPG) in lyrical form. … Continue reading
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Tagged CCSS, Common Core Song, informational text, instructional shifts, IPG, Shawn Lear, Washoe
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Core Task Project 