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How Blended and Adaptive Learning Support the Transition to the Common Core
Developed by teachers in a process initiated by governors and state education leaders across the nation, the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) set a high bar for defining what students should know and be able to do in Mathematics and Language Arts.
50 End of School Year, Self-Probing Questions for Educators
With summer break just around the corner, it's that time to take an honest self-assessment. Try these 50 out as the end of school quickly approaches.
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.
Career Education: Even College Grads Should be Employable
Parents with boomerang kids in the basement have learned that even college graduates should possess skills and dispositions that make them employable. Young people need access to postsecondary learning and work experiences that will help them develop the knowledge, skills and dispositions for employability.
Guiding and Personalizing College & Career Readiness
With robust blended, distributed and scheduling processes, not only can more students walk across the graduation stage with a diploma, but also with strong academic preparation and a meaningful plan to go with it.
Infographic: College and Career Readiness GPS for Every Student
This infographic previews the next DLN Smart Series paper, “Core & More: Guiding and Personalizing College & Career Readiness” being released Thursday.
Ensuring a Brighter Tomorrow
By: Caleb Jones. Sometimes in life you come across people that are truly incredible, people that change the world. Julie Young is one of those people.
4 Tips to Graduate College-and-Career-Ready Students
By: Katie McClarty. As problems are identified and addressed, the same data can help track student response to interventions and inform teachers, students, and parents of progress.
4 Steps to Becoming a Maker Teacher
By: Gayle Allen and Lisa Yokana. There’s a missing link between real-world maker movement popularity and classroom making. But the mystery is solved if you consider that most educators have never learned how to teach making.
12 Features of the Next-Gen Platform
This infographic highlights the twelve features key to supporting performance assessment as identified by the Deeper Learning Student Assessment Initiative.