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Shifts and Issues Associated With The Common Core

A Principal's Reflections

I attended another session on the Common Core State Standards today at the 2012 ASCD Annual Conference entitled Educator Readiness for the Common Core: ASCD Findings from Select States. Change Common Core Opinion' Their number one concern is the technological capacity to teach and assess students.

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Mathematics, Everywhere for Everyone

Digital Promise

But today’s math assignments can be confounding for parents who learned math in a pre-Common Core era, or in a different country — or who still harbor math anxiety from their own days at school, or never fully learned to connect the dots between everyday actions and math lessons. Five Strategies for Connecting with Families.

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An Onboarding Course to Help Your New Edtech Hires Empathize With Educators

Edsurge

The class reads about Common Core and completes a few samples of Common Core assessment questions to understand the student and teacher experience using these materials. Then as a group, we try on different perspectives and opinions of how Common Core assessments are shifting the focus of American education.

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S'Cool Tools of the Week: Refugee Libraries Toolkit, 21Teach

Edsurge

If you’d like to be featured in our S’Cool Tools column, click here to leave your very own Teacher Case Study. But the site’s collection of reading lists, guides for doing policy outreach, and refugee camp case studies are useful for any high schooler or social studies teachers looking to bring messages of tolerance into the classroom.

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1st Grade digital PBL: Does it work?

Neo LMS

1st Grade digital PBL: a case study. Individuals were able to meet specific elements of the Common Core Standards for writing through the digital storytelling process, a new finding in the literature that supports digital storytelling as a means of writing instruction for beginning writers.”.

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Measuring Up–the Key to Meeting State/National Standards

Ask a Tech Teacher

For example, the National Dropout Prevention Center conducted a year-long study of the Measuring Up program and its impact on student outcomes. A case study worth looking at is this one from Midview Middle School (Grafton Ohio): “We chose Measuring Up because it provides a way to assess and diagnose every student.

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Blended Learning Models Reduce Class Sizes

eSpark

A Digital Promise case study examines the blended learning implementation at Utica Community Schools, a district in the League of Innovative Schools and one of eSpark's first and largest district partnerships. With this funding and the new adoption of Common Core State Standards, UCS began exploring blended learning models.