Assessment Common Core Elementary Student Engagement 
Edsurge
JULY 9, 2019
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.
Edsurge
JULY 10, 2019
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. Sixty-two percent of Montgomery students are English language learners (ELL). Source: Levered.
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Digital Promise
MARCH 13, 2017
One of the key elements of the curriculum-design approach known as Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is student engagement — creating opportunities for students to become engaged and stay motivated, to believe that what they’re learning is important, and to feel capable in their learning. Read the original version here.
iLearn Technology
DECEMBER 18, 2014
Prodigy is a game-like fantasy world where students engage in math along their adventures. Prodigy is a virtual world where students can play together with classmates. In the virtual world, students are wizards who learn magic and spells to defeat over 100 monsters. Curious about how we use technology at Anastasis?
Reading By Example
DECEMBER 24, 2015
This is a follow up to a previous post about our school’s collective efforts to increase student engagement in reading, especially in their dispositions around talking about and sharing their reading lives. For the past five years, our K-5 elementary school has focused on the relationship between reading and writing.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 6, 2016
They have a lot of great ideas for teaching and for leading a classroom, but minimal experience establishing and maintaining structures that keep students engaged and productively learning. Related: Elementary school teachers struggle with Common Core math standards.
Learning in Hand
NOVEMBER 12, 2014
Building Early Footprints by Tanya Avrith We want to encourage our students to begin to create and publish content at an early age. However, what does that look like for early elementary grades (K-3)? Get introduced to practical pedagogical strategies for using iPads and Blogger with your students. A massive online game?
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