A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

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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Common Core Strategy Student Engagement Meeting 283

A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 2, 2014

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. Nonetheless, we contend that a concentration on the enhancement of teaching skills and strategies is not enough. References Dove, M. & Honigsfeld, A.

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Common Core Assessment Strategy Advocacy 240

Neo LMS

APRIL 12, 2018

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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Common Core Elementary Case Study Guidelines 218

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 7, 2018

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Khan Academy How To Kaplan Assessment 189

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

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.” For example, the Common Core Standards for grades K-5 require students to be familiar with a range of text types from diverse cultures and time periods.

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Libraries Common Core Strategy Meeting 74

MindShift

MAY 23, 2016

I felt like they cared for me,” said Martha Hernandez, who graduated in 2002 and is now a social worker. They’re still iterating on that work, but the result has been a more engaged math team throughout the district, and more interest in strategies like Complex Instruction that can help teachers get students where they need to go. “It

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Groups Training Common Core Classroom 52

TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

In addition to new definitions, models, and strategies, citations and references will also be added periodically, as will updates, corrections, edits, and revisions. According to differentiation expert Dr. Carol Tomlinson, differentiation is not a teaching strategy, but rather a way of thinking about learning. ” (6).

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Technology Learning BYOD Digital Citizenship 40