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Educator Insights, Curriculum Development | December 8, 2015
Building Conversations Around Common Assessment Data
As a district we now had common curriculum and common performance task, but we needed a method to compile the assessment information and teacher reflections to support the dialogue teachers would have about the teaching of the unit.
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Teaching Strategies, Educator Insights | November 22, 2015
Closing the Achievement Gap: Does Your Curriculum Support Boys and Girls?
Sometimes, we look at the overall numbers and move on, but disaggregating data into subgroups is critical to understand how curriculum is being received by all groups of students. Here we will examine gender as subgroups
School Leadership | November 22, 2015
Coaching: Shifting the Mindset of Staff Development
The most significant action I took in developing my staff was this recognizing my ignorance. I quickly learned that I couldn t always have the answer in many cases there was no the answer
Curriculum Development | September 14, 2015
Teachers Make Meaning and Capture the Day-to-Day
How can we take some useful tips back to our team. For two teachers it was all about goal-setting. After attending our Teacher-Centric Atlas session
Curriculum Development | August 31, 2015
Defining a Vision to Ensure a Concrete Curriculum Process
Building anything solid and long lasting requires planning. In our discussion she reminded us that curriculum starts with a good foundation
Curriculum Development, PD Team Insights | July 20, 2015
Planned Curriculum vs. Organic Learning
In life I am a planner, which makes mapping my curriculum something I really enjoy. Finalizing where my students will begin and end with scheduled stops
Curriculum Development | July 11, 2015
Building a District-Wide Consensus Curriculum
Josh Ruland from Indian Prairie School District 204, Illinois, shares the importance of a collaborative curriculum development process, starting with developing consensus curriculum
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Teaching Strategies, Educator Insights | June 27, 2015
Reluctant to Ready: Ah-ha Moments from a 1st Grade Teacher
Have you ever heard teachers refer to mapping as something I have to get done or out of sight, out of mind. We have certainly heard these sentiments before, and we recently heard them from Wheat Teller
Teaching Strategies | June 15, 2015
Discovery Outside the Classroom: A Biology Teacher's Reflections
During my first year of teaching, I used an analogy to introduce our class goals and pacing-- our year in Biology would be like hiking a trail. Throughout the year I d sprinkle in some photographs from hiking adventures and field biology jobs from my own past
Other Languages | May 31, 2015
Yaşam Boyu Öğrenmeye İlham Verecek Temel Sorular
M fredat n Temelleri'ni kullanarak m fredat planlar n z geli tirin
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