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Learning Artifacts

A Principal's Reflections

These are facts, concepts, processes, procedures, and principles (Clark & Chopeta, 2004). Even in a Common Core world this can be accomplished if teachers are given the autonomy and empowered to develop innovative lessons that push students to think critically while having them showcase what they have learned.

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Passionate About Second Language Acquisition: Meet Inkeri, English Teacher at 51Talk

EdNews Daily

In 2003-2004, I taught a first grade English immersion classroom for the City of Espoo’s Jalavapuisto elementary school. 51Talk’s use of Common Core in the well-prepared lessons will be familiar to teachers and will also provide the convenience of focusing solely on the instruction without the added curriculum planning.

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Debunking the myth that good teachers shouldn’t use curriculum aids

eSchool News

Under the current era of the Common Core State Standards, this myth is playing out in some districts and schools in a different way. For guidance on curriculum materials aligned with the Common Core Standards, leaders are encouraged to consult documents on the CCSS website that contains criteria for developing CCSS-based programs.

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North Carolina’s Digital Success Story

Edsurge

What’s striking is that this success story has occurred against the backdrop of so many major high-profile education initiatives floundering across the nation—Common Core and accountability come to mind—and amidst significant political turbulence in the Tar Heel state.

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Better tests don’t lead to better teaching, study finds

The Hechinger Report

And a 2004 New Jersey study found a wide variation in test preparation lessons. That’s a particularly relevant question now that more than 20 states have adopted new, more rigorous exams alongside Common Core standards. Some teachers repeated procedures for solving problems.

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CDI Partners with littleBits to Provide STEAM Coding Starter Kits to Schools

techlearning

The STEAM Student Set and the Code Kit are designed for students in grades three through eight and are aligned to Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and Common Core State Standards. The company holds ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001:2004 certifications, and processes more than one million I.T. assets annually.

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Trump names school-choice advocate DeVos to his cabinet, ushering in a new era in education

The Hechinger Report

Opposition to the Common Core. FEE advocates for education reforms, including choice, but it also supports the Common Core State Standards, which Trump has vowed to abolish. On her website, DeVos says she, too, opposes the Common Core, even though organizations she has been a part of support it. “I