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Get Common Core Ready: Achieve Dynamic Student-led Discussions

Catlin Tucker

Online icebreakers give students an opportunity get to know one another and build a community online. 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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MC Assessment = Meta Cognitive Assessment

Baker's B.Y.O.D.

I''m a proponent of critical thinking, cooperative learning, metacognition, blended learning, flipped learning. I''m a proponent of learning. Progressive teachers cannot get away from testing in the current educational climate, but at least we can make it engaging for the students in the class.

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This Math Program Helped Students Blow State Test Scores Out of the Water

Edsurge

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw attitudes toward math bottom out in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. The anxiety it created for parents and students—and even teachers, because it was something new—was awful.

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This Math Program Helped Students Blow State Test Scores Out of the Water

Edsurge

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw the need to better support a growth mindset around math in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. Post-Pilot Results : Succeeding with Common Core—Levered's 2018-19 survey.

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Three simple steps for creating lesson plans

Hapara

Lesson plans serve as a teacher guideline for what students will learn, why they are learning a skill and how they will learn it and demonstrate their proficiency. Then, identify the main learning objectives to focus on to develop that skill. Choose how students will experience instructional content.

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Four Ways to Redefine Parent Teacher Conferences—With a Little Help from Ironman

Edsurge

Three student-centered strategies. Edtech requires student buy-in too. How to integrate social emotional learning —plus a guide to SEL. How to implement blended learning —plus a guide to blended learning. Students can use Kiddom to submit work and get the feedback they need for success.

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Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core, Rise of ‘Open’ Resources

Marketplace K-12

He also talked about how he thinks policy shifts like the implementation of the common-core standards and the adoption of “open” educational resources are likely to affect the K-12 market, and his company’s work. Those resources are increasingly delivered in digital form.