Tag Archives: Core Task Project

Contra Costa Trains on the CTP

The Contra Costa County Office of Education sponsored a training on the Core Task Project to assist with refining and aligning instruction to the Core. Close to 100 educators, from the region, gathered to move through the first day of … Continue reading

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ELL Quarterly Meeting February 12, 2013

At the secondary ELL Quarterly Meeting, EL instructors reviewed the close reading strategy and a close reading exemplar. You can find the PowerPoint here and the lesson here.

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Session 4 of Leading the Core

District administrators gathered for the fourth session of Leading the Core. The focus of this session was on teacher observations, close reading look fors, text-dependent questions and tools to build site capacity. All of the resources are posted in the … Continue reading

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Lemmon Valley Trains on the CCSS

Lemmon Valley reviewed the district’s Three Year K-6 ELA plan for accessing the Core and building district capacity. Participants engaged in a close reading of the Shel Silverstein poem, “Whatifs” followed by using a text complexity rubric and a guide … Continue reading

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Martinez’s State of Education Address

This evening, Superintendent Pedro Martinez gave his State of Education Address. During the speech, he played a snippet of video of College Board President David Coleman describing the CCSS and the instructional shifts. You can access the entire video by … Continue reading

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“My Turn” in the Reno Gazette Journal

Many of the people visiting this blog may not know the history of the Core Task Project. If you are interested, you can read a piece in the Reno Gazette Journal describing our district’s experience with the Common Core and … Continue reading

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GADOE Wiki Space

The Georgia Department of Education has created a Wiki space to assist educators with the implementation of the Common Core.  The site includes lesson plans, useful links, video and a discussion forum. As the authors of the site describe: This … Continue reading

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Close Reading Exemplar Updated

The close reading exemplar, The President’s Message, used during the November 29th training has been updated and retitled. Thank you to the teachers who shared feedback and suggestions for editing. You can find the new version here. Given the content … Continue reading

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CTP Goes to Hawaii

The Core Task Project was shared in Hawaii—regretfully the person writing this post couldn’t go with. Participants walked through the CTP with the same content explored here and here. You can retrieve what was shared in Hawaii in the links … Continue reading

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Day 2 of CTP 1.0: December 11, 2012

Teachers returned for Day 2 of the Core Task Project following implementation of a close reading exemplar. A big part of the process is teacher feedback and we will be collecting these reflections, teasing out themes, and incorporating these suggestions … Continue reading

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