Aaron Grossman
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Category Archives: Common Core State Standards
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
Advancing Literacy Practice with the Core
Washoe educators moved through a third offering of the inservice course, Advancing Literacy Practice with the Core. The 15-hour class touches on a number of important features of the CCSS that enable practitioners to match classroom practice to the standards, … Continue reading
The Problem with Question Taxonomies
In a provocative piece for Edutopia, Todd Finley, an Associate Professor of English education at East Carolina University, describes the limitation of taxonomies and the importance of rethinking classroom discussions. Apart from describing what strategies we might want to limit, … Continue reading
Materials Shared at WestEd’s Moving Forward
Below are the materials shared at Moving Forward: Common Core State Standards Implementation and Assessment. Leading the Common Core PowerPoint Leading the Common Core Notetaker Towards Effective Teacher PDF
Posted in Common Core State Standards
Tagged Administration, California, CCSS, Common Core, Moving Forward, WestEd
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Sunday Tweets and Reads
In a piece for ASCD, principal Matt Renwick describes how he moved his staff through “collaborative inquiry” around close reading. Collectively, educators used a complex text on teacher evaluations to learn to analyze, annotate, and reflect. Kim Yaris and Jan … Continue reading
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Tagged ASCD, CCSS, Close Reading, Common Core, Jago, Matt Renwick, Professional Development, Tweets
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Advancing Literacy Practice with the Core
Washoe educators moved through a second offering of the inservice course, Advancing Literacy Practice with the Core. The 15-hour class touches on a number of important features of the CCSS that enable practitioners to match classroom practice to the standards, … Continue reading
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Tagged CCSS, Core Knowledge, David Coleman, David Pearson, Sandra Alberti, SAP, text sets
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Vertical Alignment of Text Annotation
The staff at Sarah Winnemucca Elementary created a Matrix of Vertical Agreements about Text Annotation. The guide serves to help answer the question why annotating is important and it further helps with identifying reasonable outcomes at each grade level. You … Continue reading
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Tagged Common Core, matrix, text annotation, vertical progressions
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Videos to help Transition to the CCSS
Oregon’s Salem-Keizer Public Schools has produced four very short videos to help practitioners transition to the Common Core. If you are still wrestling with any of the topics below, it likely worth the two or three minutes it will cost … Continue reading
Video Explanation of Reading the CCSS
The California State Board of Education has produced a video to assist educators in reading the Common Core State Standards for ELA and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science and Technical Subjects. The five-minute video moves viewers through the basic organization … Continue reading
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Tagged abbreviations, CCSS, ELA, History, progressions, Social Studies
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Core Task Project 