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Critical Literacy Across the Curriculum

A Principal's Reflections

You will hear from a science teacher, a social studies teacher, and an art teacher as each provides her take on how the Common Core and 21st Century learning goals affect what goes on in the classroom. We have neither the training to assess such skills nor the language to develop such assessments. But we need help.

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Teacher tricks: Grading & assessment

Neo LMS

In my first post in the series we explored how redefining what your data is for and how best to capture it can save many hours of tedium and time wastage. The bottom line is that teachers across the country are expected to assess students according to a range of standards, without reducing teaching to merely “teaching to test”.

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The Assessment Range: Using Data To Meaningfully Affect Learning

TeachThought - Learn better.

The Assessment Range: Using Data In The Classroom To Meaningfully Affect Learning by Terry Heick If you don’t already have a plan for the data before giving the assessment, you’re already behind. The post The Assessment Range: Using Data To Meaningfully Affect Learning appeared first on TeachThought.

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OPINION: Why we need a joint and urgent effort to teach data science and literacy in the U.S.

The Hechinger Report

Data is now everywhere in our lives, informing our decisions about which new show to watch, what path to take or whether to grab an umbrella. Our approach to teaching data science and data literacy has hardly evolved since I started my teaching career in 1995. Look at the data. How do we know?

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Grit in the Classroom

EdNews Daily

Many schools are working to implement grit curricula, and these efforts need not replace or disrupt the Common Core or other existing assessment measures. For example, the SAT suite of assessments, which now includes PSATs for students in grades eight through eleven, provides a track record of student achievement and growth.

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Khan Academy: Friend or Foe?

A Principal's Reflections

The Khan Academy site now contains over 3000 videos mapped to the Common Core and associated assessments that allow learners to practice and reinforce skills acquired through the videos. Khan Academy’s new features provide powerful data on growth and achievement that teachers can utilize to modify instruction.

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Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core, Rise of ‘Open’ Resources

Marketplace K-12

He also talked about how he thinks policy shifts like the implementation of the common-core standards and the adoption of “open” educational resources are likely to affect the K-12 market, and his company’s work. We’re very confident that our products are aligned to the common core.