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Tag Archives: CTP
Educators Train on Updated CTP
Washoe educators participated in a slightly modified version of the Core Task Project. The handouts and materials have been updated including a new video link as well as a new exemplar. You can download all of the content used during … Continue reading
Common Core Champions Now Linked to Blog
Washoe County recently identified 15 Common Core Champions. These are classroom teachers who are implementing the CCSS with an emphasis on what has to shift instructionally. You can contact them directly, through the frame at the top of this page … Continue reading
CTP Shared at San Francisco Bay Area CCSS Summit
Contra Costa County Office of Education hosted the San Francisco Bay Area Common Core State Standards Summit. The conference, titled, “Next steps to the Common Core: Approaches to Implementation,” focused on critical topics related to the CCSS. You can click here … Continue reading
Posted in Common Core State Standards
Tagged Bill Honig, CCSS, Common Core State Standards, Core Task Project, CTP, Hung-Hsi Wu, Kathy Glass
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Urban Collaborative Learns about the CTP
Washoe County was afforded the opportunity to share the Core Task Project with the Urban Special Education Leadership Collaborative in Pittsburg. The Collaborative’s fall 2012 conference focused on meeting the needs of diverse learners and “the challenges of the Common … Continue reading
Posted in Core Task Project
Tagged CCSS, Core Task Project, CTP, Exemplar, Lazarus, students with disabilities, Urban Collaborative
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Bishop Manogue HS Trains on the CTP
Staff from Bishop Manogue gathered today to review the Close Reading Strategy via video and a Close Reading Exemplar. Below are the resources shared with this audience. CTP Manogue PowerPoint Coleman Describing the Close Reading Strategy Notetaker Grades 9-10 Exemplar … Continue reading
Washoe Educators Finish Day 2 of the CTP-ESL Pilot
K-12 ESL teachers finished Day 2 of the CTP-ESL pilot. Their hard work is allowing Curriculum and Instruction to integrate WIDA into Core Task Project trainings. Further, they are identifying appropriate scaffolds to allow all learners to engage in the … Continue reading
Posted in Close Reading, Common Core State Standards, English Learners
Tagged Close Reading Strategy, Core Task Project, CTP, Dawn Adams, ESL, Exemplars, K-12, Karen Perisho, Pete Cobin, SAP, scaffolds, WIDA
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Lafayette School District Trains on the Core Task Project
Linked below are the materials shared with K-5 educators in Lafayette, California. Participants took part in the Core Task Project during their professional development day on October 8th. The purpose of the presentation was to assist Lafayette in its implementation of … Continue reading
Washoe Teachers Pilot CTP-ESL
On Monday, the ESL & World Language Department partnered with the Curriculum & Instruction Department on the Core Task Project-ESL. The hope of this endeavor is to identity appropriate scaffolds for ELs, when employing the close reading strategy, and use … Continue reading
Posted in CCSS, Close Reading, Common Core State Standards, Core Task Project, Instructional Shifts, text complexity, Text-Dependent Questions
Tagged Close Reading Exemplars, Close Reading Strategy, Core Task Project-ESL, CTP, CTP-ESL, David Coleman, English Learners, ESL, Karen Perisho, Pete Cobin Dawn Adams
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Core Shift Blast September 25, 2012
The Core Shift Blast was sent today and it includes an excellent overview of the Basal Alignment Project and the Core Task Project. Corrin Cathcart, a fifth grade teacher at Brown Elementary, describes her experience with the BAP rewrites and … Continue reading
America Achieves Films in Reno
As some of you may already know, America Achieves was in Reno to film Washoe educators describing their experience with the Core Task Project and the Close Reading Strategy. The video will likely be posted in February and other districts … Continue reading
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