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Subscriber Special: Common Core Math Lessons

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Common Core–Math Lesson Plans 160 pages, 20 projects, over 114 Common Core standards, for 9 grades (K-8). Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching.

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Tech Ed Resources for Class–Common Core

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Today: Common Core Bundle. In this bundle, you get 20 tech ed resources on how to use technology to achieve Common Core Standards–presented in a variety of ways including Lesson plans, webinars, and short but pithy articles. 7 Hall of Fame articles addressing Common Core topics. If you’re the tech teacher and have dedicated technology time each week, this shows how to use tech to support classroom inquiry while meeting Common Core standards.

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Tech Ed Resources for Class–Common Core

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Today: Common Core Bundle. In this bundle, you get 20 tech ed resources on how to use technology to achieve Common Core Standards–presented in a variety of ways including Lesson plans, webinars, and short but pithy articles. 7 Hall of Fame articles addressing Common Core topics. If you’re the tech teacher and have dedicated technology time each week, this shows how to use tech to support classroom inquiry while meeting Common Core standards.

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School Supplies, Facebook and the Common Core

Tom Murray

I was the fourth one in line. Standing directly in front of me were two moms that were obviously out shopping for school supplies. It is that time of year. Three-pronged folders, marble notebooks, some pens, a few book covers, a handful of binders, and some loose leaf paper was what I could see. What struck me most was how similar school shopping must have been twenty years earlier when that mom’s mother or father had taken her to the local store for back to school shopping. It struck me how as

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Tech Ed Resources for Class–Common Core State Standards

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Today: Common Core Bundle. In this bundle, you get 20 tech ed resources on how to use technology to achieve Common Core Standards–presented in a variety of ways including Lesson plans, webinars, and short but pithy articles. 7 Hall of Fame articles addressing Common Core topics. If you’re the tech teacher and have dedicated technology time each week, this shows how to use tech to support classroom inquiry while meeting Common Core standards.

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Unwrapping the Common Core Standards

A Principal's Reflections

Love them or hate them, the Common Core is a reality for the majority of educators and schools across the country. While attending the 2013 ASCD Conference in Chicago I attended a session entitled Unwrapping Standards to Drive the Adoption of the Common Core State Standards. By unwrapping standards educators see the interconnectedness within the Common Core. Common Core teachers

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Observing the Common Core Classroom

A Principal's Reflections

Educators across the country are grappling with the Common Core Standards and the significant changes that have come with them. How do administrators tasked with observing teachers know what they are looking for in a Common Core classroom? I was able to quickly select Grade 10 Language Arts and locate what I thought were the Common Core Standards being addressed in the lesson. How have you prepared to observe the Common Core Classroom?

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Tech Ed Resources for your Class–Common Core

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Today: Common Core Bundle. In this bundle, you get 20 tech ed resources on how to use technology to achieve Common Core Standards–presented in a variety of ways including Lesson plans, webinars, and short but pithy articles. 7 Hall of Fame articles addressing Common Core topics. If you’re the tech teacher and have dedicated technology time each week, this shows how to use tech to support classroom inquiry while meeting Common Core standards.

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Discovery Education's Common Core Academies

A Principal's Reflections

Educators across America are grappling with what the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) mean for their instruction and have key questions around successful implementation: What are the core components of the CCSS and how do they impact me? Educators are invited to join their peers for Common Core Academies that are: Research-based: Their professional development integrates proven curriculum, instruction, and assessment practices from expert practitioners and thought leaders.

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School Leadership in the Common Core Era

A Principal's Reflections

Check out their book titled Beyond Core Expectations: A Schoolwide Framework for Serving the Not-So-Common Learner published by Corwin. Why we have chosen to title this work Beyond Core Expectations is twofold. Second, we advocate for the development of an action plan for educating the not-so-common learners that is research-based, achievable, and reaches beyond any current educational reform initiative for school improvement. Who Are the Not-So-Common Learners?

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The Not-So-Common Common Core

Brilliant or Insane

The Common Core State Standards would eliminate the evils of individual curricula across state lines, giving every teacher the same set of objectives to teach their students. The post The Not-So-Common Common Core appeared first on Brilliant or Insane. Issues Common Core edchat Brilliant or Insane. The concept seemed surprisingly simple, even remarkable to some educators.

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Write! Camera! Common Core Math!

Battelle for Kids

Driving Question: Can Writing and Film Making Enrich Students'' Common Core Math Learning? April 23, 2015, Volume 2, Issue 5, Number 12. I remember early in my teaching career William Zinnser''s Writing to Learn: How to Write-and Think-Clearly about Any Subject at All. I remember distinctly the section encouraging teachers to encourage students to write about math. What I didn''t know then as where his ideas would take me over an 18 year teaching career. P21 Blogazine

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Mobile Learning and the Common Core

The Mobile Native

Here are some links to get ready for the Common Core: 1. 55 Resources for meeting the Common Core 3. 3 Tools to Tackle Common Core Math Standards 4. Common Core: Assessments 5. Common Core Math 6. 11 Tech Tools to Teach the Common Core 7. 3 Useful Web Tools That Meet Common Core Standards 8. Common Core State Standards Initiative. Common Core Mobile Learning

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Over 4000 Free Common Core Resources for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

June 1, 2017 Back with another excellent resource from OER Commons. This is basically a collection featuring over 4000 free resources aligned to the Common Core. Common core standards resourcesTeachers can use, share and even.read more.

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Using Technology to Teach Common Core

EdTech Magazine

By Catlin Tucker Getting students to engage with common core doesn't have to be such a challenge. Technology can light the path. Classroom Curriculum Digital Content

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Dear Parents: Should We Stop Mocking the Common Core?

Brilliant or Insane

The post Dear Parents: Should We Stop Mocking the Common Core? Issues Opinion You Vote: B or I Common Core mathBrilliant or Insane. Dear Parents, I get it. You’re frustrated. You want to help your child with his or her school work. It’s supposed to make sense. After all, if an adult can’t grasp it, how is an 8-year-old supposed to? So when it doesn’t make sense and you can’t help, something must clearly be wrong. And since the only […].

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Adequate vs Suitable and the Common Core War

Brilliant or Insane

This is honorable–even […] The post Adequate vs Suitable and the Common Core War appeared first on Brilliant or Insane. Featured Opinion Common Core edchatBrilliant or Insane When we commit to improving, we often make adequate our priority. This makes sense, if you’ve been trained to look for deficits and mind the gap. We align to standards, we measure the distance we must travel in order to meet them, and we craft interventions that help us bridge the gap.

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TPACK And The Common Core Webinar

The Web20Classroom

Show where I will be talking about the relationship between the Common Core and TPACK. Common Core TPACK webinar This Saturday at Noon EST, I will be a guest of the Classroom 2.0 If you haven''t heard a lot about TPACK or you want to learn more about it, this is a very fun format to join in the learning. It will take place online, in a Blackboard Collaborate room. It''s totally free and if you can''t make it, it will be archived. To join go here on Saturday morning.

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Global Competencies and the Common Core

A Principal's Reflections

I attended a session at the 2012 ASCD Annual Conference early on Saturday morning entitled Common Core and Curriculum 21: Global Competency in Literacy, Math, and Science. As we move to the Common Core it is crucial that we sustain a renewed focus on engaging students using global issues across multiple disciplines to keep them hooked and in position for achievement. 21st Century Skills ASCD 2012 Common Core

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Common Core Driving Schools’ Technology Needs

EdTech Magazine

Frank Smith Most principals surveyed say they are increasing bandwidth, acquiring mobile devices to meet Common Core demands. Bandwidth Management Budgeting Classroom Curriculum Digital Content Management Networking

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10 Common Core Tech Tips You Don’t Want to Miss

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Here are ten of the top Common Core tips according to Ask a Tech Teacher readers: 13 Ways Blogs Teach Common Core. Common Core Breathes Life into Keyboarding. Common Core requires publishing. Dear Otto: What are Common Core keyboarding standards? 7 Ways Common Core Will Change Your Classroom. 7 Common Core Ways to Assess Knowledge. How to Align Technology with Common Core State Standards.

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Use of Blogging to Address the Common Core

A Principal's Reflections

First year New Milford High School teacher Mrs. Westbrook has been tackling the Common Core in an engaging and innovative fashion. One major instructional shift required by the Common Core Curriculum Standards is the increased emphasis on the use of informational texts. As students engage nonfiction, they learn to grapple with complex ideas and arguments and use those ideas in forming their own opinions.

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Who or What Hates Common Core?

Edsurge

A team of researchers from the Consortium for Policy Research in Education at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education has been digging deeply into social media data to examine the roots of the public dialogue around Common Core. In the most recent chapter of work released, the researchers identify one group that accounted for "roughly a quarter of all Common Core-related activity on Twitter" during the 32-month time period they studied.

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Common Core Reading Resource: Smithsonian Tween Tribune

Catlin Tucker

Interested in more technology tips to help you teach the Common Core? My book Creatively Teach the Common Core Literacy Standards with Technology will be published in June 2015 by Corwin. Sidenote: If you are wondering what the target Lexile range is for your students, check out the chart below, which is provided in Appendix A of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Science, Science and Technical Studies.

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STEMscopes Math Receives Top Rating from Learning List for Alignment to Common Core State Standards for Grades K-5

eSchool News

HOUSTON – July 14, 2021 – STEMscopes Math from Accelerate Learning has received the highest rating from Learning List for alignment to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and Mathematical Practices for grades K-5. STEMscopes Math is a core mathematics program for grades K-5.

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Mass CUE Keynote: Creatively Teach the Common Core with Technology

Catlin Tucker

Creatively Teach the Common Core Literacy Standards with Technology . I had the pleasure of delivering the keynote at Mass CUE this year! Available NOW on Amazon ! . Learning

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Savvas Announces its enVision® Mathematics Common Core Grades 6-8 © 2021 Earns Highest Rating from EdReports

eSchool News

Savvas Learning Company , a next-generation learning solutions leader for K-12 education, is proud to announce that its enVision® Mathematics Common Core Grades 6-8 © 2021 received the highest rating from EdReports.org. enVision ® Mathematics Common Core © 2021 Grades 6-8.

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Five years after Common Core, a mysterious spike in failure rate among NY high school students

The Hechinger Report

Back in 2013, when New York was one of the first states in the nation to adopt Common Core standards and administer tougher tests, children’s test scores initially plummeted. After an initial drop in pass rates among eighth and ninth graders on a Common Core algebra exam in 2014-15, scores improved. In California, scores dipped among 11th graders in the spring of 2018, four years after the introduction of Common Core aligned exams.

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Cross Curricular Maker Education Activity That Addresses Common Core Standards

User Generated Education

It combines geometry concepts with a language arts activity while addressing several common core standards. Common Core State Standards Addressed. My primary job is that of educating pre and in-service teachers with a bit of teaching elementary students along the way. I often say that there is not enough time during the school day and the school year to teach isolated and singular content area topics. I stress designing and teaching cross-curricular thematic units.

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Flocabulary’s Raps Makes Common Core Learning ‘Fun and Accessible’

EdTech Magazine

Frank Smith Each video includes a quick news review, a quiz and interactive lyrics to deepen and reinforce Common Core skills. Classroom Curriculum Digital Content Internet Online Learning Online Video

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How to Compare and Contrast Authentically

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Common Core Standards recognize the importance of this skill by addressing it in over 29 Standards, at every grade level from Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade. Critical thinking Problem solving common core how-to

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Graphic Organizers For Common Core ELA

MiddleWeb

With its comprehensive collection of CCSS-ELA graphic organizers, The Visual Edge provides a very visible way for students in grades 6-12 to approach Common Core-related standards. Book Reviews Common Core Standards CCSS Common Core Dog Ear Publishing E/LA graphic organizers high school history Joyce Depenbusch middle school Sargy Letuchy science social studies visual learners

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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. In North Carolina, 45 percent of educators feel that they do not have the resources and tools necessary to successfully implement the Common Core State Standards. Change Common Core Opinion

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12 Common Core Tools & Resources For Teachers

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post 12 Common Core Tools & Resources For Teachers appeared first on TeachThought. Teaching common core General New Teacher resources

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50 Common Core Resources For Teachers

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post 50 Common Core Resources For Teachers appeared first on TeachThought. Teaching common core General New Teacher

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Common Core Quest

Technology Tidbits

Common Core Quest is an excellent free Android app for Math & LA grades 6th on up, and aligned to Common Core Standards. Students can then earn badges/ribbons for learning a Common Core Standard and teachers/parents can get detailed reports. I highly recommend checking out Common Core Quest by clicking here !!!

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Marrying Self-Regulation and the Common Core

MiddleWeb

Book Reviews Common Core Standards CCSS Common Core E/LA elementary eye on education Maria K. Marie C. White and Maria K. DiBenedetto offer a toolbox of strategies that teachers can use to help students become positive, self-regulated learners and practice self-efficacy. Linda Biondi found their description of a self-regulated teacher revelatory. DiBenedetto Marie C. White middle school Routledge self regulation self-regulated teacher

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Responding To Criticisms Of The Common Core

TeachThought - Learn better.

Responding To Criticisms Of The Common Core. Ed note: Supporting “commonness” or standardization isn’t a part of our mission at TeachThought, but we are interested in giving equal voice to diverse voices across education. Further, the majority of educators in the United States teach according to the Common Core standards, which makes them of interest to us. Myth #2: The Common Core Standards are too vague and are “dumbing down” our students.

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The best BYOD tech tools for the Common Core classroom

eSchool News

With just 4 categories and less than a dozen tools, educators can hit a lot of Common Core standards. 21st Century Skills Common Core Digital Learning and Tools byod Google simple techI recently had the pleasure of spending a few hours in a friend’s classroom where I introduced her students to technology applications that would engage them in “showing what they know” at different points in their learning.

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How to Use Technology to Get Creative with the Common Core by @Sarah_Daren

My Paperless Classroom

Discussion is important when it comes to the Common Core, because the idea is for students to grasp a greater understanding of the curriculum. The post How to Use Technology to Get Creative with the Common Core by @Sarah_Daren appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network. Editorial Common Core

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Core Tech for Learning with ELA Common Core #ISTE2014

wwwatanabe

One of the #ISTE2014 sessions I attended was "Core technologies for the Common Core" by Kyle Brumbaugh and Elizabeth Calhoon. They had a great introduction to the Common Core and a plethora of helpful tools. Table: Supplemental Information for Appendix A of the Common Core State Standards Writing readability and editor Sure, you can use the tools mentioned above to assess the readability of a student''s writing, but the following tool also includes editing.

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6 Tech Activities for Your Summer School Program

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As they work, students “…construct viable arguments and critique reasoning of others…” More specifically (Common Core Appendix C): introduce claim. After school Lesson plans common core debate summer

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Get Common Core Ready: Achieve Dynamic Student-led Discussions

Catlin Tucker

Interested in technology tips to help you teach the Common Core? My book Creatively Teach the Common Core Literacy Standards with Technology will be published in June 2015 by Corwin. Discussion can be a powerful tool for learning yet engaging all students in equitable discussions can be challenging.