Daily, Simple Ways to Support Learning
It's hard to believe that the trees are just about absent of leaves and the school year is well under way. As a parent of a three-year-old, I spend time talking about the change of seasons as we listen to the sound of the leaves as they crunch beneath our feet. My husband and I take any opportunity that comes our way to explain the world around him to help prepare our son for his future in school and life. In essence, this is a nice comparison to the intent of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). It's often hard to keep up with what's happening in education, but it's important to stop and
Common Core: Let’s Seize the Opportunity Together
Post written by Lora M. Hodges for Northeast Foundation for Children/Responsive Classroom, a whole child partner organization. Crafting powerful solutions for educating all children is an evolutionary and continuous improvement process. Educators and all those responsible for education must always be focused on innovating and pushing boundaries, digging deep, and searching wide for ideas to adva
Sharing Blue Ribbon Strategies for Success
New one-page profiles of the 2013 National Blue Ribbon schools highlight each school's mission, demographics, culture, and goals. The 286 schools—210 elementary schools, 22 middle schools, 53 high schools, and one K–12 school—represent promising ideas in different settings, from rural areas to major cities. Schools were recognized in one of two categories: Exemplary High Performing, based on ove
Aiming High: Working Through the Common Core Shifts
Download Podcast Now [Right-Click to Save] "Educators need to prepare kids to be career and college ready, but they also need to prepare them for their present world. The Common Core State Standards set out to do that. They're not perfect, but they are a starting point" (Peter DeWitt). The standards are not a curriculum. Standards are targets for what students should know and be able
ED Pulse Poll Results: Which Type of Parental Support for the Common Core Would Be Most Useful?
ASCD continually seeks to provide solutions to the challenges that face educators of all levels. Recently, the ASCD SmartBrief ED Pulse poll sought to develop a short list of useful tasks for parents to implement in their daily routine to enhance what is being taught in the classroom. In response to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), many different groups have created documents for parent
Maintaining Resilience in Education
Resilience in education is best developed in the early grades when students' interests are keen and easiest to develop. This is often the time when a teacher can best motivate a child to believe she can do anything if she tries and puts forth her best efforts. Resilience is the ongoing process of building a child's motivation and drive to excel when met with difficult or challenging circumstances
Common Core: An Educator’s Perspective
If the state of North Carolina decides to pull the plug on the Common Core State Standards, it will be a slap in the face to the teachers and administrators who have spent countless hours (most on their own time without reimbursement) preparing to implement the Common Core State Standards to maximize learning for 1.5 million students. On June 2, 2010, the North Carolina State Board of Educatio
THE WHOLE CHILD BLOG 11-13-13 Authenticity to Support Common Core Instruction and Assessment — Whole Child Education
Authenticity to Support Common Core Instruction and Assessment — Whole Child Education: Authenticity to Support Common Core Instruction and AssessmentHow do we support our students in being career and college ready? This is not a new question, and educators continually struggle with what that even means. We leverage rigor and relevance as keys to prepare students for the post K–12 world, but what