Screen Free Week, April 29th to May 5th,
2013
What is Screen Free Week? First of all, it’s not a rant against the TV. We like T...
Came back this week seeing, hearing and talking about so many great things happening in Canby School District. Here are just a few:
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This is the time of year when I typically reflect on how the school year is going and consider next steps for teaching and learning. As I go into the...
Yesterday, our CSD math teachers came together to discuss the performance tasks their 7th and 8th grade students took. After scoring the assessment, ...
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Picture this: 20 educators gather in a classroom, scrutinizing students’ learning moves with specific strategies that promote students making sense o...
The feedback that I continue to get is that teachers want more strategies to help them tackle the work they’re facing this year. After considering ...
One of my goals for the past year has been to support you as learners in
wrapping your arms around the CCSS, and we’ve been doing that i...
Below are excerpts from teachers and administrators who participated in the ELA and Math Performance Task Trainings. There is one more session for ...
CCSS Math: Math Performance Tasks (A Progression)
Tuesday, October 30
Thursday, November 1
Tuesday, November 6
Targets
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When we hear from principals and teachers that we are
pressing teachers too hard, too soon on CCSS, we have to pause and acknowledge
the stru...
It's difficult to envision the classroom of tomorrow without
models or avenues that provide you the opportunity to be creative in shifting
your i...
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Below are CCSS resources specifically for parents:
CCSS Toolkit for Parents (ODE) (In English and Spanish)
Parent ...
Note - “Discourse That Promotes Conceptual Understanding” is for any subject teacher at any grade level. Check it out.
“What does it mean ...
Three factors help determine text complexity, and the CCSS places a lot of trust in teacher expertise to balance qualitative, quantitative, and t...
The memo linked in my blog today doesn't work.
I've attached it here:
[Download file "PT Memo.pdf"]
Most weeks we are using the CCSS Blog to share things happening in the district, new information, innovative instructional strategies, and thought pr...
Joan Flora shared
Mark Bauerlein’s “Too Dumb for Complex Texts?” article with CHS’s faculty in
2011, but she think it’s an effective backdr...
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