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Thanksgiving Activities That Keep You in Charge of Learning

Ask a Tech Teacher

It’s equally appropriate for fiction and nonfiction and does a solid job of reinforcing Common Core standards related to writing, literacy, and language. List as many definitions of the word “turkey” as you can think of and ask students to check off all those familiar to them. It may be one like Storyboard That!

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An Expanded Definition of Student Success

Digital Promise

Erin Mote and Eric Tucker lead Brooklyn Lab Schools , a group of charter schools in downtown Brooklyn, and are focused on building systems that support an expanded definition of student success. The post An Expanded Definition of Student Success appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Childhood is Expendable to Some Education Reformers

A Principal's Reflections

These experiences definitely helped mold me into the adult I have become today. As a parent of two elementary students (first and third grade) in Staten Island, NY, I witness daily the negative impacts that Common Core and standardized testing, under the guise of education reform, are having on them.

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What Are the Real Motives Behind the Common Core State Standards? Let's Be Honest with Ourselves!

The 21st Century Principal

Today, there was this post on the Public School Forum of North Carolina website defending the Common Core. I am a skeptic about the Common Core, not because I do not believe in the need to have higher standards. The Common Core is "more rigorous than North Carolina''s previous standards."

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Vivid Vocabulary, Common Core, & Tech Integration Tools

wwwatanabe

With the shifts of the Common Core , students need to spend time learning both Tier 2 and Tier 3 words in a variety of ways. By interacting with vocabulary, students absorb the word''s meaning and learn to appropriately use it in a variety of contexts ( Common Core Appendix A ).

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Making The Best App Choices With @Graphite

The Web20Classroom

There are loads of these topic areas and they change all the time so you will definitely want to come back and see whats new and exciting. Common Core Explorer -For many teachers following the Common Core Standards is a reality. Finding technology resources to support the Common Core can be a challenge.

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STEM, PBL, Common Core, and 21st Century Learning

wwwatanabe

STEM, PBL, Common Core, and 21st century learning While they shared with the Board, I realized that most of our PBLs were also STEM projects and addressed the shifts in the Common Core. What overlaps do you see between STEM, PBL, Common Core, and 21st century learning?