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Yet a fundamental contradiction underlies the progress: While we are promoting radical change in creating a coherent national framework for what students should know and the way they learn, we have not yet committed to offering teachers the deep learning they will need to transform the way they work.

oo many plans for supporting the transition to the common core read more like communication plans than serious road maps for preparing educators to teach the standards.

"What made you think you could transform teacher practice and student learning with traditional models of professional development?"

To gauge changes in student growth across the year, as part of the new evaluation system, the district has settled on growth in academic vocabulary as an indicator. In every grade and content area, teams of teachers have come up with those words and related concepts all students must master by the end of the year.

"Many states are moving away from the 'train the trainer' model and trying to have more direct communications with teachers, because the message either gets diluted or changed otherwise," said Carrie Heath Phillips, the program director for the Council of Chief State School Officers' common-standards efforts.

This report responds to the need for information on how to improve adolescent writing skills.

Graham and Perin believe that writing in general — and teaching writing skills to struggling adolescent learners in particular — has not received enough attention by researchers and educators

Following is a listing of the 11 writing interventions Graham and Perin found to be effective, listed in order from greatest positive effect

standards face what experts say is their biggest challenge yet: faithful translation from expectations on paper to instruction in classrooms.

Whether opponents' nightmares come true, or advocates' hopes are borne out, will depend largely on how the standards are put into practice.

"It's a huge, heavy lift if we are serious about teachers teaching it, kids learning it, curricula reflecting it, tests aligned with it, and kids passing those tests."

Watch a video explaining what Twitter is.

Add some well known educational technologists from the list below to your list of people you follow. David Warlick Vicki Davis Angela Maiers Rod Lucier Alec Couros Jen Farr Russel Tarr Kevin Jarrett Steve Hargadon Bernie Dodge Will Richardson Bud Hunt

Finally, consider adding some twitter lists. A list a set of tweeps maintained by one twitter user. That user keeps the list pruned so that it's useful to him or her, and it might be useful to you, too. Here are some lists in content areas relevant to some of you in this class. If you add a list to your list of followers, you're adding dozens of other (ideally) well-chosen minds all at once History | Literature | NYT Book Reviews | Biology | Physics | Music |