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Shifts and Issues Associated With The Common Core

A Principal's Reflections

I attended another session on the Common Core State Standards today at the 2012 ASCD Annual Conference entitled Educator Readiness for the Common Core: ASCD Findings from Select States. Their number one concern is the technological capacity to teach and assess students. Change Common Core Opinion'

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Cross Curricular Maker Education Activity That Addresses Common Core Standards

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It combines geometry concepts with a language arts activity while addressing several common core standards. Title: Geometry Meets Maker Education. Common Core State Standards Addressed. Create original works as a means of personal or group expression. Assessment. Grade Level: Grades 6 through 8.

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Measuring Up–the Key to Meeting State/National Standards

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Many of us find students benefit greatly when the school employs curriculum-based assessments to measure progress. Because by teaching, assessing knowledge, tracking progress, and personalizing to student needs, we can determine if students are accomplishing what they must to complete the work of learning. Measuring Up Live 2.0,

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How Minecraft Teaches Reading, Writing and Problem Solving

Ask a Tech Teacher

It’s fascinating that today’s game playing youth want a set of rules they must beat, parameters they must meet, levels (read: standards) they must achieve, and a Big Goal (think: graduation) they can only reach after a lot of hard work, intense thinking, and mountains of problems. Have students work in groups. Be involved.

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Fun Assessment for Silent Sustained Reading

Catlin Tucker

The challenge for me was to design an “assessment” that was meaningful. I had tried everything from the traditional book report style assessment to more creative movie trailers, but I didn’t feel like they accomplished what I wanted from a silent sustained reading assessment. Sans the wine, of course.)

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Nevada to Recoup $1.8M From Common-Core Group Over Testing Mishaps

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Nevada officials announced Tuesday that a common-core assessment consortium will credit the state $1.8 million as compensation for problems that derailed a spate of its assessments last year. From Common-Core Group Over Testing Mishaps appeared first on Market Brief. Test Results from N.D.,

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Where special education students are succeeding under Common Core

The Hechinger Report

Third grade reading intervention teacher Antoinette Coppa provides small group instruction to students Matilda Helt, Miguel Santos and Jeremy Cantero during reading workshop. Gundersen is on one side of a sharp divide within the special education community that the Common Core has brought to the fore. Photo: Ibby Caputo.