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“It’s unfair” special education students lag behind under Common Core in Kentucky

The Hechinger Report

Since Kentucky became the first state to adopt the Common Core in 2010, the achievement gap between students with disabilities and their nondisabled peers has widened slightly – despite sweeping expectations the more rigorous standards would help eliminate disparities in academic performance. Reframing expectations.

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Draw on Student Interests to Make the Common Core Work for You

Educator Innovator

This was originally posted at Common Sense Graphite. As the new school year begins, articles and resources dedicated to helping teachers develop curriculum and assessments aligned to the Common Core literacy standards are popping up everywhere.

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Websites for Hour of Code by Grade

Ask a Tech Teacher

Grade-levels below are guidelines. Besides Math Standards, Alice supports these Common Core writing skills: 8.3a If students get stuck, they can go through Alice online documentation, Help files, or ask for assistance from classmates. Feel free to use whichever project fits your students. Kindergarten — Human Robot.

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Design Thinking Process and UDL Planning Tool for STEM, STEAM, Maker Education

User Generated Education

Many of those same qualities are goals of the Common Core State Standards. This is typically done by sharing documentation of learning and final reflections through social media. The UDL Guidelines provide a deep dive into each of the principles to checkpoints that provide resources, examples, and research.

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What is Standards-based Grading?

Ask a Tech Teacher

Today, many educators want to not only evaluate progress at a point in time but optimize that against the ongoing standards their school mission is built on such as Common Core, International Baccalaureate, NGSE, or TEKS. That’s changing. What is Standards-based Grading. Teachers can add comments to completed assignments.

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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. The first step to planning an effective lesson is to decide what skill you will teach using the Common Core or state standards specific to your content area and grade level.

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Websites for Hour of Code by Grade

Ask a Tech Teacher

Grade-levels below are guidelines. Besides Math Standards, Alice supports these Common Core writing skills: 8.3a If students get stuck, they can go through Alice online documentation, Help files, or ask for assistance from classmates. Feel free to use whichever project fits your students. Kindergarten — Human Robot.

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