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4 Critical Characteristics of High-Quality Instructional Content

Edsurge

Changes in What Teachers Know and Do in the Common Core Era. Many turn to standards-aligned digital resources for use in the classroom as an alternative to textbooks that are not directly aligned. These are key components to success in the classroom and beyond. Why Do They Want It? To Meet Students’ Needs!

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Most English lessons on Teachers Pay Teachers and other sites are ‘mediocre’ or ‘not worth using,’ study finds

The Hechinger Report

One of the most popular English lessons in the instructional marketplace Teachers Pay Teachers is a unit on how to teach William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” and claims to explain how to teach the tragedy of the star-crossed lovers in a fun-filled way while hitting almost 50 Common Core standards in five weeks.

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Rationalizing Those 'Irrational' Fears of inBloom

Hack Education

This article first appeared on Points, a Data & Society publication in February 2017. ” “The promise was that [inBloom] was supposed to be adaptive differentiated instruction for individual students, based on test results and other data that the states had. They certainly had a different sense of risk.

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