Sentences with phrase «about common core curriculum»

Thousands of frustrated parents and educators from across Long Island were expected to attend a forum in Garden City Tuesday night for an opportunity to speak with New York State Education Commissioner John King about Common Core curriculum and state testing.

Not exact matches

That said, there has been an about 180 - degree about - face on the governor's part when it comes to the controversial Common Core curriculum, the opt - out movement and linking test results to teacher performance evaluations.

That's about half as many as last year, before the new Common Core Curriculum was adopted in the state.

Addressing a question about how best to communicate Common Core curriculum demands to parents of English language learners, Contreras plugged a SCSD program - «Parent University» - that helps parents understand how best to support their children.

To walk from a conversation about the need for a common core curriculum to one about turning schools into digital gaming parlors modeled after Grand Theft Auto — well, it's what we in the business call a head jerk.

Darling - Hammond praises «good language» in the Common Core national curriculum - content standards about critical thinking skills and problem - solving.

But not for all the usual reasons that people raise concerns: the worry about whether we've got good measures of teacher performance, especially for instructors in subjects other than reading and math; the likelihood that tying achievement to evaluations will spur teaching to the test in ways that warp instruction and curriculum; the futility of trying to «principal - proof» our schools by forcing formulaic, one - size - fits - all evaluation models upon all K — 12 campuses; the terrible timing of introducing new evaluation systems at the same time that educators are working to implement the Common Core.

In the same issue, teacher Lucy Boyd wrote about the experience of creating a curriculum based on the Common Core.

Multimedia storytelling is a perfect match for Common Core curriculum, so we can finally feel confident about integrating it into our classes.

Here's a plan to put a hopeful message in a bottle for the summer of 2015: America Achieves and the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) would work with the America Achieves to design a teacher survey asking about the Common Core implementation identified treatments and other strategies (e.g., instructional coaching using digital video captured by coached teachers, a specific textbook or curriculum, supplemental programs for students, etc.) their school is using, and a principal survey asking about similar topics.

NYSUT Vice President Maria Neira said the union has been sounding warning bells since 2011 about the over-emphasis on standardized testing and the state's rushed and unrealistic timeline for introducing curriculum and assessments tied to the Common Core state standards.

Dr. Corinne Hyde talks about Common Core controversy, standards implementation, tests, curriculum materials and USC's online guide to the Common Core.

Driven by compelling cognitive science, a renewed focus on curriculum in the wake of the Common Core State Standards, and a culture of innovation encouraged by the Every Student Succeeds Act, curiosity has piqued about what «knowledge - rich schooling» really means — and how the heck you do it.

To be sure — and to be fair — there is much room for concern about the uneven quality of curriculum and instruction, a problem that Common Core has done less to create than to reveal.

«The proponents of Common Core and PARCC continue to insist that tests and standards are not about curriculum, but that's a ruse.

I'm talking about things like teacher licensing mandates, which researchers have long found do not improve teacher quality and traffic in disproven education fads (but do provide easy - access cash cows for state departments of education and teacher colleges since teachers are required to keep buying their products to maintain certification); ever - increasing testing and data - entry mandates; centralized curriculum mandates like Common Core; centralized teacher evaluation and ratings systems; and the massive data entry required to document things like student behavior problems and special education services.

To proclaim that one test and one set of curriculum standards, the Common Core, can provide meaningful data about whether a child is college and career ready, that is, ready to attend one of the over 4,400 colleges and universities in the US or pursue one of the tens of thousands of careers that exist or those that don't but will by the time this year's preschool class, the class or 2029 or 2030 graduates high school, is educationally bankrupt.

Here's another way to think about it: Many high school teachers are, in theory, being asked to build a house without a foundation, since their students were presumably not taught a curriculum aligned with the Common Core for most of their prior academic career.

Some districts which had curriculum dedicated to the Common Core and teachers who taught to it diligently had low test scores, and some districts that just about ignored the Common Core in curriculum and practice had good scores.

In Part One of a two - part interview, LA School Report contributor Vanessa Romo talks with Deasy about his relationship with teachers, the challenges of pioneering the new Common Core curriculum and the possibility that district - wide test scores might fall this year.

«While we do high - level thinking about things like teacher effectiveness or Common Core [curriculum], the question is what exactly will we do tomorrow about those districts.»

Origianlly you took common core assessments out of the equations and were talking about curriculums not tests.

Today's education reformers don't want teachers who cost more, or who speak their mind about untested curriculum changes, who bitch about Common Core State Standards, high - stakes testing or crummy student treatment.

While both groups learned about content - appropriate scaffolding and how to remove scaffolds over time, the professional learning sessions were each grounded intensively in the teachers» curriculum, Common Core State Standards, and content area practices.

«The emphasis on writing across the curriculum is a great thing about the Common Core State Standards.»

Hidden behind the debate about turnaround programs, charter schools, standardized testing, evaluation methods and the common core curriculum rages a far more fundamental argument; what do we actually expect our public education to achieve... What is the purpose of public education?

Now, Fariña's curriculum choices carry even higher stakes: Some educators and parents are already unhappy about the transition to the Common Core, and missteps early on could cost the new chancellor dearly.

But if the UTLA leadership is dubious of the Common Core budget, some union members are dubious of the survey, which ask teachers about their familiarity and comfort with the Common Core curriculum, including how much «professional development» they have received and whether they feel prepared to teach it.

«What the proponents of Common Core have proved in this case is that Common Core is about controlling curriculum,» he said.

With engaging questions, open - ended tasks, and four - color visuals that will help kids get excited about mathematics, Mindset Mathematics is organized around nine big ideas which emphasize the connections within the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and can be used with any current curriculum.

«One of my deepest concerns about the imposition of the Common Core is that private, religious, and homeschool educators might be forced into adopting government - dictated curricula and assessments that violate their academic freedom and rights of conscience.

Shortly thereafter, EL releases Transformational Literacy, a great companion to EL's grades 3 - 8 ELA curriculum that deepens understanding about the Common Core instructional shifts, curriculum decisions, and includes videos to support teachers» learning.

View the Materials Analysis Tools by NCSM to view a webinar about their Curriculum Materials Analysis Tool, read about the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) Mathematics Curriculum Materials Analysis Project, and to download the tool.

I am angry about what Coleman's statement says about what he has unleashed on the public schools in this country that misguidedly follow the Common Core curriculum.

As Dropout Nation has noted within the past year, those very review boards have raised significant concerns about many of the plans submitted by states such as New York as well as by the District of Columbia; D.C., one panel was particularly concerned that D.C.'s transition plan to embrace Common Core math and reading standards was not «realistic and of high quality», and lacked a «high - quality plan» for ensuring that English Language Learners and special ed students could get strong, comprehensive, college [preparatory curricula.

I hope that this critique of the Common Core is part of the 2016 rallying cry for parents to opt their children out of tests on those inadequate standards, a rallying cry for school districts to not design curricula based on the intellectually bankrupt Common Core, and a rallying cry for good teachers everywhere to speak up about what learning really is and to make sure that real learning, not test prep, is what they foster in their classrooms.

In an effort to support school leaders in designing learning environments that produce career and college ready learners, Teaching Matters» Fourth Annual Summer Forum for Principals will feature a discussion about the implications of the Common Core State Standards on curriculum and assessment.

«The thing about this work is that no one here has done it before, so we don't know exactly what we'll need» to spend for Common Core, says David Christiansen, Fresno's associate superintendent for curriculum and instruction.

Many teachers are concerned about what they see as a lack of freedom in curriculum planning and personal teaching style, and fear being evaluated based on their students» Common Core test scores.

While teachers make many decisions about their lessons, in the post NCLB — Common Core era, with the continued emphasis on high stakes assessments, teachers still tend to follow curriculum pacing guides, marching to the drumbeat established in an electronic log that continuously grabs for completion of more, for reaching more benchmarks, at a pace that barely allows anyone to catch their breath, let alone breathe.

To help educators become that trusted voice, ASCD's next issue of Policy Points, to be released in the coming weeks, dispels those aforementioned Common Core myths, addressing widespread questions about federal involvement and local control of schools as well as other misunderstandings related to the standards» relationship to curriculum, their cost to states, student privacy, and more.

With the heavy push for high - stakes testing, the questionable negative rhetoric by the Obama Administration and others about STEM, and the dramatic changes to the curriculum with Common Core State Standards, is this country going to wake -LSB-...]

The following are suggestions for sharing books about electricity across the curriculum while implementing the Common Core State Standards.