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Pasi Sahlberg recounts the history of Finnish educational reform as only a well-traveled insider can. He details how the Finnish strategy and tactics differ from those of the global educational reform movement and of the North American reforms in particular. Finnish Lessons goes beyond the facts and figures of Finnish education.

Free, Common Core-aligned lesson revisions for popular 3rd-5th grade Basal readers. An introduction to the Basal Alignment Project, as well as the revised lessons for each Basal reader, can be found in Folders, below. For more info: http://bit.ly/Wzwg8Y

Thousands of free resources to explain the standards and equip students for success. Assign lessons to students.

NJ schools use technology to revolutionize classroom lessons

And this concept should be translated to all US schools......

Project Look Sharp is a media literacy initiative of Ithaca College that develops and provides lesson plans, media materials, training, and support for the effective integration of media literacy with critical thinking into classroom curricula at all education levels, including integration with the new common core standards.

Student created math lessons

Paired Books and lessons for grades 1 through 5 provide students with opportunities to see connections and differences across literary and informational texts in three different types of pairings: fiction-fiction, nonfiction-nonfiction, and fiction-nonfiction.

Great intro to a lesson.....open ended question for students to contemplate....

Mentor texts are most powerful when students frequently revisit them throughout the writing process-and when teachers help them take lessons from writing exemplars.

This paper examines one essential tactic for making school turnaround more effective: community engagement. To explore community engagement in action, the Reform Support Network (RSN) conducted reviews between April and August of 2013 of 11 States and districts, urban and rural, engaged in the communities surrounding low-performing schools. The enquiry yielded five primary lessons or takeaways about successful community engagement: make engagement a priority and establish an infrastructure, communicate proactively in the community, listen to the community and respond to its feedback, offer meaningful opportunities to participate, and turn community supporters into leaders and advocates.

Testing Writing: What to Expect From the Next Generation Assessments

FREE educational resources for middle school, high school, and college.