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Tag Archives: David Liben
Your Common Core Questions, Answered
During David Liben’s visit to Reno, he took some time to answer questions that educators in our community either emailed or posted on this blog. The questions are listed below with the link to the answers on Youtube. Liben, the … Continue reading
What are Districts doing to Implement the CCSS?
In August, WestEd cosponsored a conference on the Common Core State Standards. You can access video of presentations by Linda Darling-Hammond, David Liben, Bill Honig, and Kenji Kakuta here. A report, following the conference, was just released that describes what … Continue reading
Liben Presentation to WCSD Educators Now Available
David Liben, Meredith Liben, and Rachelle Etienne, of Student Achievement Partners, were in Reno on August 20th sharing strategies to effectively implement the Common Core. They focused on text complexity, text-dependent questions, syntax, academic vocabulary, writing to sources and the … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Vocabulary, CCSS, Common Core State Standards, Core Task Project, Instructional Shifts, Student Achievement Partners, text complexity, Text-Dependent Questions
Tagged CCSS, Common Core, David Liben, instructional shifts, Meredith Liben, Rachelle Etienne, SAP, Student Achievement Partners, Text Complexity, text-dependent questions, WCSD
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Striving Readers Presentation Materials from August 21st
As part of the launch of Striving Readers, Student Achievement Partners members David Liben, Meredith Liben and Rachelle Etienne shared literacy resources matched to the Common Core. Their work focused on the “instructional shifts” and the Close Reading Strategy. Resources … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Vocabulary, Common Core State Standards, Complex Text, Instructional Shifts, Student Achievement Partners, Text-Dependent Questions, Writing to Sources
Tagged CCSS, Close Reading Exemplars, Common Core, David Liben, Meredith Liben, Rachel Etienne, SRG, Striving Readers Grant
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Presentation Materials from Libens & Etienne August 20th
Below are the resources David Liben, Meredith Liben and Rachelle Etienne of Student Achievement Partners (SAP) used as part of their presentation with Washoe educators on August 20th. The work session centered on delving deeper into the “instructional shifts” with … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Vocabulary, Common Core State Standards, Complex Text, Instructional Shifts, Student Achievement Partners, Text-Dependent Questions, Writing to Sources
Tagged academic vocabulary, CCSS, Common Core, David Liben, instructional shifts, Meredith Liben, Rachel Etienne, SAP, Student Achievement Partners, Text Complexity, text-dependent questions, writing to sources
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David Liben and Vocabulary Research
David Liben, from Student Achievement Partners, will be in Reno on August 20th and 21st working with Washoe educators around Common Core implementation. As we countdown to his arrival, the following article (here), on the CCSS vocabulary research base, may … Continue reading
The Louisiana BAP Experience
As many of you know, the Basal Alignment Project involved districts coming together to work towards the same outcome: assisting teachers in taking current materials and more closely aligning them to the Common Core. Whitney Whealdon, an English Language Arts … Continue reading
Introduction to the Basal Alignment Project
The Council of Great City Schools has produced a video from the first Basal Alignment Project training. You can watch the video (here) and see first hand what was shared with state and district personnel that attended. For those who … Continue reading
David Liben’s Keynote Address before the VSC
David Liben, in a keynote address (here) before the Vermont State Colleges (VSC), addresses a number of key parts of the Common Core including the history of the CCSS, the research on which it is based, and the importance of … Continue reading
Core Task Project 