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Tag Archives: Common Core
Instructional Move 2: Stop and Jot
The “Stop and Jot” technique is not new to the veteran teacher but likely neglected because of its simplicity. The technique promotes retention and comprehension of content and costs very little classroom time to implement. Stop and Jot works like … Continue reading
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Tagged CCSS, classroom management, Common Core, stop and jot, teachers, template, video
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Instructional Move 3: You, Y’all, We
This is more food for thought than anything else. We have all become familiar with the approach “I, We, You.” That is, the teacher introduces a new concept and demonstrates how to do it—the I. Next, children work together on … Continue reading
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Tagged BAP, Close Reading, Common Core, I we you, Read Aloud Project, Willingham, you y'all we
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CCSS Instructional Practice Guide Coaching, Released
The Instructional Practice Guide: Coaching tool is for teachers, and those who support teachers, to build understanding and experience with Common Core State Standards (CCSS)-aligned instruction. Designed as a developmental tool, the coaching tool can be used for collaboration, coaching, … Continue reading
Instructional Move 6: Four Corners
If you have taken part in a Core Task Project training, then you know we typically start with the Four Corners activity. The website http://www.facinghistory.org does a nice job summarizing the move as follows: A Four Corners Debate requires students … Continue reading
Instructional Move 7: Quiz, Quiz, Trade
Quiz, Quiz, Trade is a learning strategy that that has students working with multiple partners to review key learning outcomes. The move allows for practice with a large problem set and for students to use each other to problem solve … Continue reading
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Tagged 2nd Grade, 4th grade, classroom management, Common Core, high school, PowerPoint, quiz quiz trade
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Instructional Move Number 8: Stand Up, Hand Up, Pair Up
In this move, student pair up with other students in the classroom to do two things: 1) share an academic problem they have been working on and 2) work on the problem their partner shares with them. Naturally, there are … Continue reading
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Tagged CCSS, classroom management, Common Core, Kagan, SEL
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Instructional Moves to Help you with the Common Core
Over the course of the last three years, as teachers asked for assistance with the implementation of the Common Core State Standards, three questions consistently came up: What is the research that governs why we are being asked to shift … Continue reading
Social Emotional Learning and CCSS Presentation Materials
As part of an effort to bridge the Common Core State Standards and Social Emotional Learning, district educators worked to find classroom examples and instructional techniques that addressed both outcomes simultaneously. This was part of the SEL Site-Based Implementation Training. … Continue reading
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Tagged CCSS, Common Core, Dweck, lesson demonstrations, PERMA, PowerPoint, SEL, Seligman, Social Emotional Learning
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EQuIP Review Process, Reviewed
Implementation specialists and district instructional coaches worked through an introduction to the EQuIP Review Process. Educators spent the morning learning about the creation of the rubrics, becoming familiar with the EQuIP quality review process, and applying the first dimension of … Continue reading
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Tagged Ain't I a Woman, CCSS, Common Core, EQuIP, materials, units
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Lemov’s 4 Imperatives of the Common Core
The New Schools Venture Fund hosted a conference on Common Core and included a session titled, Teaching Literacy in the New World of CCSS (video linked here). At minute 4:11 Doug Lemov, managing director of Uncommon Schools and author of … Continue reading
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Tagged CCSS, Close Reading, Common Core, harder, nonfiction, pondiscio. lemov, uncommon schools
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Core Task Project 