Literacy Design Collaborative

strategies

MetaMetrics

shape the content within the modules in any way that suit their desired purposes

Retest

allow retest opportunities in the summer of 2015

PARCC will

Policies in Development

Accessibility, Accommodations, and Fairness Operational Working Group

umber of testing sessions

approximate testing time,

Appropriate structure, curriculum, interaction, and reinforcement strategies for effective instruction;

Appropriately certified teaching faculty;

graphic texts are actually embraced as "knowledge product"

mastery learning, portfolio assessment, cooperative classroom structures, technology integration, backward design, multimedia projects, personal learning paths, authentic task development and, most recently, differentiated instruction and integrated curriculum

create a game that was hard to beat but harder still to quit

games themselves could feasibly replace tests

whether children learn more when playing individually or collaboratively.

So what?

John Dewey: "Understanding derives from activity."

That's when we learn, not because we choose to, but because we know it might be on The Test, and too often, curiosity gets replaced by fear.

students, each with a smartphone, take pictures of what they think are complementary angles outside of the classroom. The next day, the students discuss them in class.

Moreover, once students have memorized a poem, they are able to carry it with them everywhere. It becomes part of their lives.