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Tag Archives: Common Core State Standards
CTiP Year 2 Begins with a Close Look at Core Action 1
Elementary schools, that finished the first year of the Core Task implementation Project, started year 2 of this professional learning experience. The focus, of the first of four sessions, was on Core Action 1 from the Instructional Practice Guides. Educators … Continue reading
August 16th “Blue Friday”
The PowerPoint for the August 16th Blue Friday K-6 ELA presentation can be found here. The short session included a review of the August 8th PD Launch and a discussion about an exchange between College Board President David Coleman and … Continue reading
August 2nd A&S Meeting Materials
The Instructional Practice Guides were included in the August 2nd Administrative and Supervisory meeting. For the 400 in attendance, work centered on learning the context and basic construct of the guides before engaging in an application piece. You can download … Continue reading
‘Favorite ELA CCSS Resources’
Rebecca Eastland has created a list of “Favorite ELA CCSS Resources” that include links to helpful sites, information that supports close reading, this blog (thank you!) and other free materials. Eastland’s list can be found here.
Site Leads Prepare for August 8th
On August 8th, Washoe will launch its K-6 CCSS professional development calendar with a day devoted to literacy outcomes. Site leads worked with personnel from Curriculum & Instruction to preview “sessions” (here) and get a basic feel for the structure … Continue reading
Lake Charles, LA Materials
Elements of the Core Task Project were shared in Lake Charles, Louisiana this week. The elementary (here) and secondary (here) PowerPoints include links to the video and the toolkits from NASSP, NAESP, NEA, and NASBE. The Instructional Practice Guides (aka … Continue reading
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Tagged CCSS, Close Reading, Common Core State Standards, Core Task Project, Lake Charles, Louisiana
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CCSS “Aligned” Materials
Edweek reports on publishers sharing “aligned” resources with educational consumers. Catherine Gewertz describes several of these materials to demonstrate that some of these “alignments” deserve our skepticism. You can read the entire article here. Washoe is using of the Tri-State … Continue reading
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Tagged aligned, CCSS, Common Core State Standards, EQuIP, Gewertz, Rubric
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Advancing Literacy Practice with the Core 7/22&7/23
Washoe educators worked through the last summer session of the inservice course Advancing Literacy Practice with the Common Core. This is the fourth posting about the course and you can access many of the materials included in the session here. … Continue reading
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Tagged Close Reading, Common Core State Standards, David Coleman, David Pearson, Evidence Guides, Joe Wilhoft, SAP, SBAC
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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
Scoring Guides for SBAC Practice Tests
In May we linked to the SBAC Practice Test (here). SBAC has subsequently released scoring guides for each grade level test that you can find here. The scoring guides are available for ELA and math and include sample responses to … Continue reading
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Core Task Project 