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Janet Hale

Curriculum 21: Common Core Crosswalks - 0 views

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    "Curriculum 21: Common Core Crosswalks" Great resources for the ongoing conversations, collaborations, and curriculum mapping decision making educators are involved in during the transitioning from state standards to the common core state standards.
Janet Hale

Education Week: Educators Tout IB's Links to Common Core - 0 views

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    "As districts nationwide scramble to translate the Common Core State Standards into concrete curricula and lesson plans, Principal Sue DeVicariis of Kate Sessions Elementary School in San Diego considers herself ahead of the game. Her school is one of 342 nationwide to follow the Primary Years Program of the Swiss-based International Baccalaureate organization. Earlier this school year, Ms. DeVicariis and teachers met with colleagues across grades throughout the district to use IB inquiry-style units to create mathematics and English/language arts common-core curriculum units for San Diego."
Janet Hale

Common Core Implications - Curriculum21 - 0 views

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    Visual By Mike Fisher of Bena Kallick's posting on Common Core Standards: Uncommon Shifts in Practice
Janet Hale

Education Week: Common [Core] Standards Judged Better Than Most States' - 12 views

  • For the Fordham Institute analysis, teams of reviewers analyzed sets of academic-content standards, as well as supplemental materials such as curriculum frameworks, from all 50 states. They then compared these to the CCSSI standards.
  • Mr. Finn acknowledged that the Fordham group’s review, like any review of standards, involves judgment calls about what students should know and be able to do. Its reviewers gave more points for highly specific standards focused on content rather than metacognitive “strategies” or skills, and for standards that are clear, well organized, and easy for teachers, students, and curriculum developers to use.
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    "The common academic-content standards that dozens of states are now adopting are better overall than 33 individual states' standards, according to an analysis released today by a Washington research-and-advocacy group." Provides a REPORT CARD for each state's standards in comparison to the ELA and Math CCSS.
Janet Hale

Your Money - Working Financial Literacy Into the Classroom - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Most Americans aren't fluent in the language of money. Yet we're expected to make big financial decisions as early as our teens - Should I take on thousands of dollars of student debt? Should I buy a car? - even though most of us received no formal instruction on financial matters until it was too late.
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