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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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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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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.

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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.

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Measuring Up–the Key to Meeting State/National Standards

Ask a Tech Teacher

Measuring Up materials are available in digital and print format and can be used to serve full classes, small groups, Saturday instruction, or summer school. Teachers can individually assign Standards practice to classes, groups, or individual students. For more data, click this link to find a list of academic and case studies.

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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. Math is Cultural. Mathematics is cultural.

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S'Cool Tools of the Week: Sown to Grow, Common Curriculum

Edsurge

If you’d like to be featured in our S’Cool Tools column, click here to leave your very own Teacher Case Study. It is free to use for teachers, and it cost $99 per teacher per year for schools to be able to collaborate with groups within their school. . Here are a couple of tools that caught their eye.

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