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Free Resources I’m Using to Help with SBAC and CCSS
Trying to have students secure all of the skills and content they will need to be successful with the Common Core, the Nevada Academic Content Standards, and Smarter Balanced can feel daunting. (Rather, IT IS daunting.) Consequently, I am trying … Continue reading
Posted in Common Core State Standards, SBAC
Tagged CCSS, free, noredink, NVACS, SBAC, Smarter Balanced, typingclub
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35 Mini-Assessments Added to 63000Resources.com
The full set of Mini-Assessments has been added to http://www.63000resources.com through the link here. The Mini-Assessments are well aligned to the Next Generation Assessments and teachers throughout Washoe have discovered that they are a good gauge of how students are … Continue reading
Posted in SBAC
Tagged assessments, Common Core, Great Fire, Marco Polo, SBAC, Swans, Walk Two Moons
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Core Task implementation Project Session 4, Grades 3-5
The 4th session of CTiP for Grades 3rd through 5th focused on syntax and a look at the Language Standards. The session was like the other January sessions but with a closer look at assessment items similar to those students will see on … Continue reading
Shanahan on Test Preparation—What not to do
In a presentation titled, “What Not to do to Prepare for the Assessments,”Common Core Work Team Member Dr. Timothy Shanahan share some provocative insights into PARCC and SBAC. Among these is his claim that test preparation likely does not work. … Continue reading
‘How and How Not to Prepare Students for the New Tests’
A popular question, since Nevada officially adopted the SBAC Test for the 2014-2015, is how to best prepare students for the coming assessments. I certainly have an opinion and have consistently noted that if you take full advantage of well-vetted … Continue reading
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Tagged Common Core, Document Based Questions, Nevada, SBAC, Test Preparation
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Assessment and the Common Core
In the video linked here, David Pearson, former dean of the Graduate School of Education at University California, Berkeley, moves viewers through the coming PARCC and SBAC assessments and the implications for instruction. At minute 5:47, he begins an overview … Continue reading
Common Core Learning Modules
We have gotten a lot of requests for the learning modules, matched to the Common Core and the Instructional Shifts, that were developed last summer. You can access them, if you have an Edmodo account, here. (If you do not … Continue reading
Posted in Professional Development, Social Emotional Learning
Tagged 21st Century, Common Core, ELL, modules, SBAC, SEL, Speaking and Listening, talking, Text Complexity
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Spanish Springs HS Students Explain SBAC and Field Testing
Students at Spanish Springs High School created a terrific video to explain the new Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortia (SBAC) test. The video is clear and on point in helping all stakeholders understand the implications of SBAC and the field testing … Continue reading
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Tagged assessment, CCSS, Common Core, field testing, high school, SBAC, Spanish Springs HS, Washoe, WCSD
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Performance Tasks, an Overview (samples linked)
The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium has produced a video tutorial describing Performance Tasks. A Performance Task “measures capabilities such as depth of understanding, research skills, and/or complex analysis with relevant evidence.” There will be one Performance Task per content area … Continue reading
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Tagged CCSS, Common Core, Grade 11, Grade 4, Grade 6, performance tasks, SBAC, tutorial, video
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Free Programs to Help Students Learn to Type
As many of you know, portions of the 2014-2015 PARCC and SBAC assessments will require students to type their responses to questions. (You can take the SBAC practice test here.) Consequently, there is a renewed push to help students become … Continue reading
Posted in CCSS, SBAC
Tagged CCSS, Common Core, elementary, free, keyboarding, PARCC, SBAC, tutorial, typing
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Core Task Project 