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Tag Archives: CCSS
Read Aloud Project Inservice, April 17th
Kindergarten through second grade teachers trained with the Read Aloud Project (RAP) resources and with the text, Desert Giant. To give the RAP some context, and to explain why building a coherent body of knowledge is vital to comprehension, participants … Continue reading
Posted in Read-aloud Alignment Project
Tagged CCSS, Common Core, desert giant, Meiers, Pondiscio, Read Aloud Project, read alouds, shift 1
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Enhancing Professional Learning through Twitter Chats
If you have a Twitter account, you may want to participate in Twitter Chats to promote your own professional learning. The chats are free and run the full breath of educational outcomes including Common Core, Art, 21st Century Learning, Educational … Continue reading
Posted in 21st Century Learning
Tagged 21st Century Learning, Art, CCSS, Common Core, Educational Leadership, Special Education, Twitter
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Resources from April 12th
At the Core Advocate conference in Chicago, the following PowerPoint and Word document were shared. The PowerPoint and Word document help frame part of Washoe’s implementation of the Common Core State Standards.
Posted in CCSS, Student Achievement Partners
Tagged CCSS, Chicago, Common Core, Core Advocates, SAP
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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
Spanish Springs HS Students Explain SBAC and Field Testing
Students at Spanish Springs High School created a terrific video to explain the new Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortia (SBAC) test. The video is clear and on point in helping all stakeholders understand the implications of SBAC and the field testing … Continue reading
Posted in SBAC
Tagged assessment, CCSS, Common Core, field testing, high school, SBAC, Spanish Springs HS, Washoe, WCSD
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‘Deliberate ELA/Literacy Redundancies and Repetition’
The Department of Education’s Office of Vocational and Adult Education has shared the College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education report to help practitioners with CCR outcomes. Included in the report is a description of how the Common Core … Continue reading
Posted in Adult Education
Tagged adult education, CCR, CCSS, College and Career Readiness, DOVA
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Additions to www.63000resources.com
A number of resources and materials have been added to http://www.63000resources.com. Like everything else at the site, the items are free and well aligned to the shifts and the Instructional Practice Guides. The “Year at a Glance” planning tool for … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 1st, 2nd, CCSS, Common Core, discussion, earth, families, flipchart, Kindergarten, read-aloud, seasons, space, weather
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Performance Tasks, an Overview (samples linked)
The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium has produced a video tutorial describing Performance Tasks. A Performance Task “measures capabilities such as depth of understanding, research skills, and/or complex analysis with relevant evidence.” There will be one Performance Task per content area … Continue reading
Posted in SBAC
Tagged CCSS, Common Core, Grade 11, Grade 4, Grade 6, performance tasks, SBAC, tutorial, video
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Writing Instruction and the Common Core
If you have questions about writing and the Common Core, the following LearnZillion webinar will help. Joey Hawkins, the founder of the Vermont Writing Collaborative and author of Writing For Understanding: Using Backward Design To Help All Students Write Effectively, … 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
Posted in Common Core State Standards
Tagged CCSS, Common Core Song, informational text, instructional shifts, IPG, Shawn Lear, Washoe
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Core Task Project 