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Tag Archives: Common Core State Standards
The Limitations of Using Readability Scores
Relying on the quantitative features of text complexity can be limiting and misleading. This is nicely demonstrated in a video posted by Montgomery County Public Schools (here) in which viewers learn how changing two words in a passage lowers the … 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
Sound Instruction Instead of ‘Test Preparation’
New York Times Washington Bureau Chief David Leonhardt led a discussion for the Hamilton Project on “the economic imperative of expanding college opportunities.” At minute 34:08 the panelists are asked how ACT and SAT can mitigate for the advantages affluent … Continue reading
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Billings Public Schools Train with CTP
Elementary and secondary school educators in Billings, Montana worked through elements of the ‘Core Task Project’ and ‘Advancing Literacy Practice with the Common Core.’ You can find all of the resources shared over the two days below. Note: some of … Continue reading
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
CCSS Questions and Answers
Sandra Alberti, the Director of State and District Partnerships and Professional Development for Student Achievement Partners, shares several important answers, to questions many of us have been asking. The answers come from a presentation done in Illinois last week. How … Continue reading
Staying Current
There are a number of articles, recently posted at “Thinking Common Core” that may interest readers of this blog. There are pieces describing multiple perspectives on close reading; the value of emphasizing academic vocabulary; an inside view on the new … Continue reading
Sharing the Common Core with Parents
The World of Inquiry School has posted a video (here) of site educators moving parents through the Common Core State Standards. They start with having parents discuss page 7 of the introduction and then review two key learning targets: 1) … Continue reading
School Psychologists Review Shift 1
School district psychologist learned more about the “instructional shifts” with specific attention to shift 1—building a coherent body of knowledge with rich non-fiction text. The videos, which included a review of a MetaMetrics study and a presentation by Robert Pondiscio, … Continue reading
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