Category Archive: Common Core and State Standards
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Presentation Assessment Best Practices
Andrew K. Miller is a guest blogger for Success at the Core. Miller (@betamiller on Twitter) is on the National Faculty for the Buck Institute for Education, an organization specializing in 21st century project-based learning, as well as for ASCD, providing expertise in a variety of professional development needs. He …
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Applying National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) in the Real World
Last summer, I had the opportunity to expand my technology leadership as a school principal by attending a couple of unique experiences. I hit on some of these experiences in my blog titled Strange New Worlds. As the year progressed, I’ve continued to reflect on effective leadership practices – …
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Science and CCSS? We’re Speaking the Same Language Here!
“The Common Core State Standards are just for math and English teachers, not for science teachers.”
“This is just another version of reading/writing/math across the curriculum.”
“These new Common Core standards are going to force science teachers to teach math and …
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CCSS: When Vocabulary Alone Isn’t Enough
I teach in a dual language elementary class where students learn in a language that is not their first. Teaching language and literacy—while simultaneously teaching content knowledge—is my daily reality. I know that I need to incorporate listening, speaking, reading, writing, and viewing into every lesson.
A few years ago, while …
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Common Core: How to Evolve from Learning to Pass a Test, to Learning to Learn
As we approach the day where Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are embedded in all we do, I wonder, “What, really, will be different?” My answer? A LOT!
Remember the show “Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?” I hated that show because the content had a bunch of facts that …
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Pairing Common Core Implementation Needs with SaC Tools
Over the past several weeks, Success at the Core Fellows have shared their work around implementing the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) at their schools and the tools – including some from SaC – they’ve found helpful in their efforts. You can read all CCSS- focused posts here, and …
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Video as a Tool to Understand CCSS Mathematical Practices
They were 100 strong – an audience of teachers sitting at cafeteria tables, waiting. They had come here at 4:00 pm, after a long day, to learn about the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in Mathematics. The evening’s session was to focus on mathematical Practice #1: Make sense of problems …
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The Common Core: A Lifeline for a Nation at Risk?
Will the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) move us beyond a nation at risk?
In 1983, when President Ronald Reagan’s National Commission on Excellence in Education published a report entitled A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Education Reform, it launched a series of restructuring efforts that still reverberate through …
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Getting to How: Leading for Long-Term Implementation of the Common Core State Standards
…Your most important resource is your own willingness to experiment, your courage to take risks and your commitment to continual learning for yourself and your students.
-Laura Lipton and Bruce Wellman
After a record eighty days of sunshine, the rain finally returned to the Seattle area. By chance, this day happened …
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Unpacking the Common Core
As students and teachers get back in to the school routine, for many there is a significant change. Rather than learning a new curriculum, many educators are grappling with a new set of academic standards.
Yes, we have been in a standards-based system in the United State for the last 15 …
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