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Category Archives: Core Task Project
What are Districts doing to Implement the CCSS?
In August, WestEd cosponsored a conference on the Common Core State Standards. You can access video of presentations by Linda Darling-Hammond, David Liben, Bill Honig, and Kenji Kakuta here. A report, following the conference, was just released that describes what … Continue reading
Draft of the Close Reading Exemplar “Farewell Speech” Now Available
Third and fourth grade teachers in the Core Task implementation Project (CTiP) worked on a grade 4 close reading exemplar matched to Lou Gehrig’s “Farwell Speech.” Cathy Schmidt (Scoop.it! page here) edited the piece and you can find a draft … Continue reading
Session 5 of Leading the Core
Administrators gathered for the 5th session of Leading the Core. The night focused on assessment and participants reviewed the timelines for PARCC and SBAC, watched video of Michael Cohen and Joe Willhoft, worked through SBAC assessment items and performance tasks, … Continue reading
Contra Costa Trains on the CTP
The Contra Costa County Office of Education sponsored a training on the Core Task Project to assist with refining and aligning instruction to the Core. Close to 100 educators, from the region, gathered to move through the first day of … Continue reading
Social Emotional Learning and CTP Final Session
The last session of Social Emotional Learning and Core Task Project concluded with participants outlining specific SEL skills that fit well with the close reading strategy. Educators will be sharing an addendum to the close reading exemplars that includes before, … Continue reading
ELL Quarterly Meeting February 12, 2013
At the secondary ELL Quarterly Meeting, EL instructors reviewed the close reading strategy and a close reading exemplar. You can find the PowerPoint here and the lesson here.
Session 4 of Leading the Core
District administrators gathered for the fourth session of Leading the Core. The focus of this session was on teacher observations, close reading look fors, text-dependent questions and tools to build site capacity. All of the resources are posted in the … Continue reading
Lemmon Valley Trains on the CCSS
Lemmon Valley reviewed the district’s Three Year K-6 ELA plan for accessing the Core and building district capacity. Participants engaged in a close reading of the Shel Silverstein poem, “Whatifs” followed by using a text complexity rubric and a guide … Continue reading
School Leaders: How to Successfully Implement the CCSS
Sue Beers outlines four strategies for successfully implementing the Common Core State Standards in a piece for ASCD. She highlights the need for teachers to have “time to learn, plan and collaborate as they build new systems of instruction and redesign learning … Continue reading
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