by Grant Wiggins, Ph.D, Authentic Education Common Core Assessment: When Teaching Gets In The Way Of Reading Comprehension Readers of the blog no doubt know that the title of this post refers to the general discussions taking…
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5 Mobile Apps To Help Teachers & Students Adapt To The Common Core Standards
5 Mobile Apps To Help Teachers & Students Adapt To The Common Core Standards It’s easier to get where we are going if we are all working off the same map. At least that’s the…
Exactly What The Common Core Standards Say About Technology
The Common Core Standards, the national academic standards for K-12 schools in the United States, have now been adopted by 47 of the 50 states in the U.S. This makes them the pre-eminent source of…
Academic Standards: Breaking Whole Things Into Broken Bits
by Grant Wiggins, Ph.D, Authentic Education In the just-released Math Publisher’s Criteria document on the Common Core Standards, the authors say this about (bad) curricular decision-making: “’Fragmenting the Standards into individual standards, or individual bits of standards…
Why Learning Innovation Can’t Come From Teachers Alone
Grant Wiggins, a learning expert who has inspired me since my first year in the classroom, recently wrote about the intersection of academic standards and creativity. “Why do people insist on viewing the Standards as…
3 Digital Tools For Common Core Academic Vocabulary
3 Digital Tools For Common Core Academic Vocabulary by Susan Oxnevad first appeared on gettingsmart.com The Common Core identifies six instructional shifts needed to effectively implement the standards in ELA/Literacy. Shift 6 suggests an instructional change in the teaching of…
Quick Reference: A Common Core Cheat Sheet
by Kimberly Tyson, Ph.D, learningunlimitedllc.com LearningUnlimited is an excellent resource of pure literacy resources for your school or classroom. To that point, they recently developed the following Common Core Standards cheat sheet that helpfully breaks…
The Most Significant Change Of Common Core Adoption
The adoption of the Common Core standards is among the most significant changes in K-12 public education in the United States in the last century. The current standards-based, outcomes-based framework of public education really began…
Common Core: 5 Technology Tools To Measure Text Complexity
by Kellie Ady, District Instructional Technology Coordinator, Cherry Creek Schools I posted some time ago about finding accessible online text, but a recent blog post from Eye on Education (“How to Select Complex Text to Increase Rigor”)…
What You Need To Know About The Next Generation Science Standards
While the Common Core standards have been released and are making their way into classrooms across the United States, they do not contain Science content, but rather simply suggest a literacy component across all…
12 Of The Best Math iPad Apps Of 2012
TeachThought and TWA are pleased to bring you another ‘Best of 2012′ app list: 12 Of The Best Math iPad Apps Of 2012. We love these math apps for classroom use, but they’re also great…
Could Age-Based Learning Short-Circuit The Common Core Standards?
By Michael Horn, wiredacademic.com and forbes.com After spending last week in Washington, D.C., I was struck by how nervous folks in education circles are about whether states will stick with the Common Core state standards once the Common Core…
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