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PowerPoint; great explanation of DOK, including examples/explanations of activities at different levels.

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Explanation of Depth-of-Knowledge and examples of mathematical skills for each level. 

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Chart includes verbs and sample activities for the 4 Depth of Knowledge (DOK) Levels:
1--Recall
2--Skill/Concept
3--Strategic Thinking
4--Extended Thinking

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Border Crossers brings together young students from diverse New York City neighborhoods to explore issues of inequality, discrimination, and social justice. Through our school-based programs and community building initiatives, students develop the leadership skills to take action for lasting social change in their classroom, school and community.

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The author presents a convincing argument for emulating instructional design found in "Angry Birds."

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2003 report of the National Writing Commission

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This is actually 2 articles from American Educator Spring 2011
-Putting Students on the Path to Learning: The Case for Fully Guided Instruction
-Principles of Instruction: Research-Based Strategies That All Teachers Should Know

The first article asserts that "teachers are more effective when they provide explicit guidance accompanied by practice, not when they require students to discover many aspects of what they must learn."

The second article presents 10 research-based principles of instruction, along with suggestions for classroom practice.

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"The Teaching for Learning Framework, a project of the Michigan Department of Education – Office of Education Improvement and Innovation, was created to support effective instruction in challenging content across all grade levels and content areas. The Framework outlines 77 research-based Essential Skills (organized into __ Fundamental Processes and three Core Elements) that can be learned, practiced, and utilized by classroom teachers to efficiently and effectively deliver instruction."

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"ReadWriteThink offers a collection of online Student Materials to support literacy learning in the K-12 classroom. These interactive tools can be used to supplement a variety of lessons and provide an opportunity for students to use technology while developing their literacy skills."

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"WritingFix is a teacher resource website that contains lessons and ideas for any educator to freely use in their K-12 classrooms....The site is sponsored by the Northern Nevada Writing Project, a not-for-profit professional development organization that is located on the University of Nevada-Reno Campus."

An absolutely amazing goldmine collection of writing ideas: mentor texts, 6 traits, revision, genres, and MORE!

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"For over a decade, Lesson Planet has been providing a convenient way to discover and share innovative lesson plans. The Lesson Planet solution helps teachers find lesson resources, correlate them to standards, and organize their curriculum. Lesson Planet’s tools offer teachers a time-efficient way to inspire their teaching with fresh ideas. "

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"Welcome to the BalancEdTech wiki! We believe educators must be knowledgeable and comfortable with curriculum, pedagogy, and technology in order to "teach". Our blog posts, articles, presentations, workshops, and consulting focus on helping educators weave curriculum, pedagogy, and technology into engaging and rigorous learning. We also believe people learn best by doing AND reflecting, both of which are integral to our workshops."

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Doing What Works (DWW) is a website sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. The goal of DWW is to create an online library of resources that may help teachers, schools, districts, states and technical assistance providers implement research-based instructional practice. 

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This is an NCTM site organized by lessons or activities grouped by K-2, 3-5, 6-8Illuminations is designed to:
Provide Standards-based resources that improve the teaching and learning of mathematics for all students.Provide materials that illuminate the vision for school mathematics set forth in Principles and Standards for School Mathematics, Curriculum Focal Points for Prekindergarten through Grade 8 Mathematics, and Focus in High School Mathematics: Reasoning and Sense Making.Illuminations is part of the prestigious Verizon Thinkfinity program.

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"Strategies that teachers can use to help students hone their skills at making inferences. The strategies are ones that teachers say work well in their classrooms. They are strategies that are supported by research and best practice in classrooms."

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"Tech4Learning develops award-winning educational software. Our creative software tools support effective use of educational technology and help build 21st century skills. Our goal is to improve classroom technology through strategies like project–based learning and differentiated instruction."

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