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Common Core: Better Standards, Conditions, Tools, & Outcomes
Leaving the Common Core would be like a group of phone users leaving iOS or Android and going back to Blackberry--few apps, few updates, few friends. The politically motivated change would lead to weaker expectations, less teacher collaboration, and higher costs.
Assessing Deeper Learning: A Survey of Performance Assessment and Mastery – Tracking Tools
A Getting Smart report that outlines 12 key features of a performance based assessment system and barriers identified in obtaining better tools. This paper outlines platform necessities as Deeper Learning and the application of educational technology continues to progress.
Strong States & Common Standards
When talk turns to innovation, we usually think of a wizbang app, but advances in public policy can have an even bigger impact particularly on disadvantaged neighborhoods. The two most important policy advances in the last twenty years are Common Core State Standards and stronger state roles in education policy.
Visual Learning Math Program ST Math Expands Curricula
New ST Math programs expand the previously offered intervention and fluency programs and help to prepare students for success in Algebra 1. New programs include ST Math: Grade 6, ST Math: Middle School Supplement, and ST Math: High School Intervention.
A Look Inside Standards-Based Grading at Starr Detroit Academy
By: Jeremy Vidito. Standards-based grading was one of numerous strategies we implemented from Day 1. And it became evident quite early in our first year that we had some challenges to overcome if we were going to successfully implement standards-based grading.
How To Choose The Best Tools To Successfully Transition To Common Core
Here, a leading educator proposes a few questions that school leaders need to ask to ensure they’re locating and using the most innovative and appropriate tools for managing this sweeping transformation.
How the Feds Could Contribute to Competency Education
iNACOL released a paper--A K-12 Federal Policy Framework for Competency Education--the most comprehensive look at the federal role in supporting the shift to competency-based education.
6 Ways Common Core Math Standards Will Affect Your Child’s Education
Even outside of education circles, many people have heard of the Common Core State Standards for education. These standards represent a shift in philosophy towards higher standards for students. However, this shift in thinking brings a number of changes to the mathematics education that your child will receive.
Quality Matters in K12 Online and Blended Learning
The Quality Matters Program demonstrates that the close correspondence between the iNACOL course standards and the QM Grades 6-12 Rubric, shows K-12 teachers, administrators, and other stakeholders that the QM Rubric can be an effective tool to achieve the iNACOL goals in addition to implementing the more detailed and explicit QM design elements.
Teaching Common Core Through Integrated History and Language Arts
We will walk participants through the websites to highlight how we use them in our integrated History/Language Arts model, focusing specifically on the Zoot Suit Riots and Scopes Monkey Trial. As an English teacher, it is my responsibility to support literacy across the disciplines. If History is an account of the past, Language Arts is how we tell the stories.