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School Leadership in the Common Core Era

A Principal's Reflections

References Dove, M. Common Core for the not-so-common learner: English language arts strategies grades K-5. Beyond core expectations: A schoolwide framework for serving the not-so-common learner. Common Core ELL English Language Learners Guest Blog Post Guest Blogger Leadership' & Cohan, A.

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Writing Scaffolds to Meet Diverse Learning Needs

A Principal's Reflections

As students work to master the complex reading and writing standards demanded by the Common Core, Mrs. Montecuollo and Mrs. Westbrook collaborated to create writing scaffolds that address the diverse academic needs of their 9th grade students. These teachers believe that differentiation is about access points.

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Twitter as a Tool For Academic Discourse

A Principal's Reflections

New Milford High School teachers Jessica Groff and Joanna Westbrook created a Common Core aligned English Language Arts (ELA) task that incorporated Twitter into their unit on Julius Caesar and built on content authentic to the Shakespeare''s history play – i.e. social media re-purposed with and for academic discourse.

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6 Ways to Make Classroom Typing Fun

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For students in school, ‘speed of thought’ refers to how fast they develop ideas that will be recorded. 6.6 ) By 3rd grade, Common Core discusses the use of keyboarding to produce work, i.e., CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.6 To type as fast as the speed of thought isn’t as difficult as it sounds. 45 wpm is good.

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Schools That Work For Kids

A Principal's Reflections

What I just described in the last sentence is commonly referred to as 21st Century Skills (we have called them essential skills at my school for the past three years). In New York Common Core, scripts for lessons have become the standard.

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In Texas, new math standards look a whole lot like Common Core

The Hechinger Report

The Texas standards aren’t the same as the Common Core State Standards, adopted by more than 40 states. It’s actually illegal to teach Common Core in Texas. to Common Core, the new math standards here are pretty similar to the standards the state rejected, experts say.