Common Core Toolkit for Principals: Part 2
April 9, 2013
By Gerald Aungst
February Toolkit: Mission and Transfer within the CCSS
(Apologies for neglecting to cross-post on this article from February. The March issue will be posted shortly, and the April issue will be posted in another week or so.)
THINK
Before the next faculty meeting, read your district’s mission statement. (Ours is on the district web site.)
Common Core: Have We Met Our Responsibility as Educators?
by Tom Martellone • November 28, 2014 • 0 Comments
Over the past year, I’ve seen numerous posts, pictures, and articles about states thinking they would pull out of PARCC Testing and CCSS (Common Core State Standards). Each time I’ve seen these articles and posts, I’ve wondered to myself, “Despite our working hard to implement them within our school districts and schools, have we done a good enough job of educating the public just what CCSS are and how they differ from curriculum?”.
I ask this after seeing the same picture many times on friends’ Facebook pages and in other social media. When I see it on Facebook pages, I often take time to respond to the picture trying to educate the person posting about Common Core State Standards, curriculum, and the difference between the two.
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Editor's note: This is the fourth post in a five-part series which takes a look at five big ideas for implementation of the Common Core State Standards, authored by Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins The key to avoiding an overly discrete and fragmented curriculum is to design backward from complex ...
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