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Use of Blogging to Address the Common Core

A Principal's Reflections

First year New Milford High School teacher Mrs. Westbrook has been tackling the Common Core in an engaging and innovative fashion. One major instructional shift required by the Common Core Curriculum Standards is the increased emphasis on the use of informational texts.

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School Leadership in the Common Core Era

A Principal's Reflections

Check out their book titled Beyond Core Expectations: A Schoolwide Framework for Serving the Not-So-Common Learner published by Corwin. Michael Fullan, 2002, p. Students who are not performing at grade level in the core subject matters (Dove & Honigsfeld, 2013, pp. Struggling Learners. & Honigsfeld, A.

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1st Grade digital PBL: Does it work?

Neo LMS

The teaching team challenged themselves to start with the very fundamentals of what their digital teaching program needed to achieve, and they wanted to align it not only with CCSS (Common Core State Standards) but also with ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) guidelines , as well as the P21 Framework for 21st Century learning.

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How to Prepare for the SAT

Ask a Tech Teacher

I’ve based my selections on the following criteria: ease of use — accounts are easy to set up with access to both the site and materials quick and intuitive. StudyBlue is user-driven SAT prep which works by providing access to user-created flashcard collections that address SAT skills. See my full review here. Veritas Prep.

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Basal Readers: 5 Ways to Make Them Work for Your Class

Edsurge

In the early 2000’s basal reading programs were rebranded as “core reading programs” and given the stamp of approval by many state agencies, which labelled many of them “research-based.” Once their interest is piqued, students will want access to the entire text. Do a Genre Study.

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How A Strengths-Based Approach to Math Redefines Who Is “Smart”

MindShift

I felt like they cared for me,” said Martha Hernandez, who graduated in 2002 and is now a social worker. The three main tenets of Complex Instruction are that learning should have multi-ability access points, norms and roles that support interdependency between students, and attention to status and accountability for learning.

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A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers: Learning Models & Technology

TeachThought - Learn better.

Common Core) for individual students. An acronym for Massively Open Online Course, a digital course that allows asynchronous access to content. Learning can unfold in a variety of ways: people can use mobile devices to access educational resources, connect with others, or create content, both inside and outside classrooms.