common core
Building Buzz in Detroit
The EAA has built a blended professional development course for teachers inside of Buzz that uses a variety of resources to help teachers learn how to build a strong learning environment through fostering relationships, creating a common language, developing a shared classroom vision and establishing rituals and routines.
Practice and Provenance
To validate the best practices, I think we need provenance. Provenance refers to the origin of something and everything that has happened to it from its creation to the present day. Provenance is vital in the art world where people paying millions of dollars for paintings need to have proof that they aren’t forgeries.
Why is There More Open Content for Math Than English?
OpenEd launched in June with a giant collection of free resources. "With the Language Arts standards its critical to have a volume of resources to choose from," said Blum, "So OpenEd's approach of aggregating ALL Internet accessible resources with deep metadata is what is really critical to having good sources for content.
Real Learning for Real Life
Washington State leaders will gather in Seattle on Tuesday and in Spokane on Wednesday to consider the implications of these two historic shifts occurring simultaneously. Hosted by Partnership for Learning and Washington Roundtable, the convening will explore the skills gap, new standards, and next-generation learning environments.
How Frames, Plans, Platforms & PD Support Great Teaching
Districts and networks are making it increasingly possible for all of their teachers to achieve great results with common frameworks, big goals and good plans, strong development systems for adult learners, and learning platforms.
Roadtrip Nation Releases Deeper Learning Report
Roadtrip Nation launched into the education field in 2008 as a school-based program for students to “define their own roads in life”. To date, over 100,000 students from over 1,800 schools across 22 states have participated in the Roadtrip Nation Experience.
Calling All Science Teachers! New MasteryConnect App is a Must.
Check out the MasteryConnect goodies page for the view of our suite of apps. Download the Next Generation Science Standards App (as well as MasteryConnect’s other free apps) by searching “MasteryConnect” or “Next Generation Science Standards” in your app store.
PARCC “On Time, On Task”
PARCC chiefs and staff held calls this week to update progress and, in the light of defections, to reassure partners. The message was “PARCC is on time, on task,” and 14 states and the District of Columbia have committed to field-testing the assessment in the spring of 2014.
Teachers Now “Pinning” Common Core Resources in MasteryConnect
Recently, MasteryConnect unveiled a cool, social bookmarking feature for standards aligned resources. Much like the Pinterest paradigm of social bookmarking, teachers find or upload any resource on the web, align it to a state or Common Core standard, and “pin” it to a board or collection.
3 Ways to Encourage Higher Order Thinking with Technology
Here are three ways for teachers to prepare to design learning experiences that encourage higher order thinking through the use of technology as a tool for learning.