This is Part III of a series dedicated to making the transition to Common Core State Standards and preparing for the Literacy component of the new PARCC assessment. Previous posts have focused on gaining familiarity with CCSS (Prepping for PARCC, Part I) and building understanding of sample assessment items (Prepping for PARCC, Part II). This […]
In my November blog entry Using Text Evidence to Support Responses I address instructional Shift 4: Text Based Answers. This shift is one area we will need to address in order to deal with the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and attend to college and career readiness. I’ll continue that conversation by […]
In my last post (Prepping for PARCC, Part I) I referenced a conference session I had attended in search of the most up-to-date answers about the upcoming literacy component of the PARCC assessment. I have pages of notes and links and have tried to synthesize that information into this three-part blog series addressing the following […]
Yesterday a group of us from CTL visited the Columbus Signature Academy (CSA) in Indiana. CSA is part of the New Tech Network of schools that are organized around project-based learning principles, one-to-one use of technology, and culture of collaboration and flexibility modeled after an office environment. There were many things that impressed us, but […]
I just came back from a two-day staff retreat at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest. A lovely setting with 14,000 acres of woods, meadows and forest land festooned with art installations.
It’s late August and students, parents and teachers are sliding into back to school routines. Lunchboxes have been chosen. Backpacks have been selected. Notebooks have been purchased. Teachers have prepped their classrooms. Rosters are printed and teachers have planned lessons. When students and teachers arrive at this place together, the classroom, there is one element of classroom […]
Why join #KyEdChat? Why should busy educators use Twitter at all? The answer is simple: Twitter and other social media put a professional learning community and network literally at your fingertips.
