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Tag Archives: Common Core State Standards
The Common Core and PreK
In a piece for EdSurge, Karen Nemeth connects the Common Core to PreK and early learning. Nemeth is assertive in pointing out that instruction for this age group needs to be developmentally appropriate giving several examples of what this can … Continue reading
Posted in Common Core State Standards, PreK
Tagged Common Core State Standards, early learning, Karen Nemeth, PreK
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Wagner’s 21st Century Learning Skills and the CCSS
Teach Indy has helpfully posted a professional development video that overviews the Common Core State Standards, the instructional shifts, and several PARCC performance tasks here. In addition to the aforementioned, the presenters in the video make explicit connections between Tony … Continue reading
Accessing Sample Assessment Items
Green Bay Area Public School District Assessment Coordinator, Stephen Miller, has posted a Youtube video describing how educators can access sample SBAC assessment items. If you are having any difficulty navigating the Smarter Balanced website, Miller’s brief three minute and … Continue reading
Flipped PD
Sheleen DeLockery, working in School District 62 in Illinois, has put together the following flipped professional development around the ELA “instructional shifts” (here). Sheleen moves viewers through the shifts using video content and print resources and she has all of … Continue reading
Last Session of Leading the Core
The last session of the Leading the Core concluded with administrators looking at connections between the instructional shifts and the Danielson Framework. Administrators also got a preview of the next fall’s professional development plan and course offerings for leadership, site … Continue reading
“The Truth about Common Core”
There has been some confusion about the Common Core and Kathleen Porter-Magee and Sol Stern address several areas of misinformation and misinterpretation. They directly tackle important issues including the concern that the CCSS is a federal mandate (aka ‘ObamaCore’); that … Continue reading
Close Reading and Poetry Inservice Course
University of Nevada Reno professor Dr. Steven Gerhke will be leading an inservice course on close reading and poetry this fall. Kindergarten through sixth grade teachers can take part in the class and learn more about performing close readings of … Continue reading
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Tagged CCSS, Close Reading, Common Core State Standards, inservice, poetry, Steven Gerhke, UNR
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A Parents Guide to the Instructional Shifts
In a piece for his blog View out the windshield, Geoff Belleau outlines the “instructional shifts” and the implications for parents. He notes that there is a lot of advice for teachers but not enough for caregivers. Consequently, he takes … Continue reading
CTP Reflection Video, Edited
The Core Task Project Reflection video has been edited and reposted here.
New Close Reading Exemplar Added
We completed a close reading exemplar for the poem, “The Story of Fidgety Philip” by Heinrich Hoffman. We have it fitted for the 3rd grade level. Some see the poem, written in 1845, as one of the first documentations of … Continue reading
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