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Write! Camera! Common Core Math!

Battelle for Kids

April 23, 2015, Volume 2, Issue 5, Number 12. Driving Question: Can Writing and Film Making Enrich Students'' Common Core Math Learning? I remember early in my teaching career William Zinnser''s Writing to Learn: How to Write-and Think-Clearly about Any Subject at All.

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Get Common Core Ready: Achieve Dynamic Student-led Discussions

Catlin Tucker

Discussion can be a powerful tool for learning yet engaging all students in equitable discussions can be challenging. Note: For educators interested in incorporating online discussions into their curriculum, my first book Blended Learning in Grades 4-12 provides resources and strategies to support this shift. Learning'

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More than five years after adopting Common Core, Kentucky’s black-white achievement gap is widening

The Hechinger Report

It’s been over five years since Kentucky adopted the Common Core, guidelines for what students need to know in math and the English language arts in each grade. Related: Common Core ignores underprivileged students — and testing will lead to more achievement gaps. Scores have been edging up ever since.

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Personalized learning and Common Core: Mortal enemies?

The Hechinger Report

Can students learn about what they like, at their own pace, and still pass standardized tests at the end of each year? It’s a dilemma facing a growing number of schools and districts that have jumped onto a new tech-fueled trend in education known as “personalized learning.”.

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10 Hits and 10 Misses for 2015

Ask a Tech Teacher

They may be about how to use wikis or blogs in the classroom or what I’ve learned from my students as we got through another tech week. Let Students Learn From Failure. 11 Things I Love About Common Core. You can find her resources at Structured Learning. I have regular features like: Tech Tips.

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Ten Possible Education Headlines For 2015 : Happy New Year!

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

I wish you the very best for 2015 and beyond! Ten Possible Headline for 2015 from Michael Gorman at [link] . The new name was praised by numerous politicians and talk radio hosts causing many states to adopt the newly labeled UCSS ( Uncommon Core State Standards). I promise some great posts in the year 2015.

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Elementary school teachers struggle with Common Core math standards

The Hechinger Report

Depth of understanding was hailed by its architects as a cornerstone of the Common Core, a set of educational guidelines for what students need to know in each grade in English and math that have been adopted in 43 states and the District of Columbia. If the Common Core is to improve the math education of U.S.