Read blogs, join discussions and find complimentary education resources at NWEA's online destination for partner collaboration. Common Core Standards align a wide range of K‐12 education content standards into a single, unified platform, but states will implement the standards in a variety of ways. NWEA is helping partners understand and prepare for the transition. MAP Assessment Information
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Welcome to Kansas' Education Resource Center The Kansas Education Resource Center contains tools for teachers to use in aligning classroom instruction and assessment to Kansas' academic standards.
Created in 1996 by the nation's governors and corporate leaders, Achieve is an independent, bipartisan, non-profit education reform organization based in Washington, D.C. that helps states raise academic standards and graduation requirements, improve assessments and strengthen accountability. More... To make college and career readiness a priority in the states, Achieve launched the American Diploma Project Network.
The Math Forum Is...... the leading online resource for improving math learning, teaching, and communication since 1992._We are teachers, mathematicians, researchers, students, and parents using the power of the Web to learn math and improve math education._We offer a wealth of problems and puzzles; online mentoring; research; team problem solving; collaborations; and professional development. (Relevant to Common Core)
Preview New Content and Enhancements for Back-to-School 2011 Enlighten students with thought-provoking new content and improve teaching and learning with product enhancements for students, teachers, and administrators. The Evaluation Tools Educators Need to Inform Instruction and Drive Student Achievement Discovery Education ASSESSMENT offers Common Core formative assessments and interim benchmarks for all 50 states.
Atlas is a Web-based curriculum management tool that electronically: Incorporates curriculum mapping, tracks gaps and repetition in instruction, addresses the Why in performance testing, aligns curriculum to benchmarks and standards, produces updated reports to encourage partnerships, facilitates sharing of ideas and communicating them rapidly across buildings, schools and grades and shares requirements with students.
Infographics can change the way we learn, the way we see information put in front of us. They help us digest that information and leads us to draw important conclusions more swiftly.
After doing a little research online I was able to discover 10 gorgeous infographics on education that do more than simply show information, they relay it in a really potent and amazing way.
Students can access websites that do not contain or that filter mature content. They can use their real names, pictures, and work (as long it doesn't have a grade/score from a school) with the notification and/or permission of the student and their parent or guardian.
It takes a giant leap of faith for a teacher to think that their students can learn the material on their own. Teachers become teachers to teach. It is natural for the teacher to want to force the student to learn. But, this is similar to trying to force the proverbial horse to drink. Think about how many video games people have learned and won, on their own! No one had to "teach" them how; no one had to force them to play.