SDE Conference on Common Core State Standards for Grades K-5 - Greensboro, NC: Handouts

1/31/2013

Katie will be a featured presenter at the Conference on Common Core State Standards for Grades K-5, Feb 11−12, 2013 in Greensboro, NC.



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SDE Conference on Common Core State Standards for Grades K-5 - East Lansing, MI: Handouts

1/31/2013

Katie will be a featured presenter at the Conference on Common Core State Standards for Grades K-5, Feb 4−5, 2013 in East Lansing, MI.



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I'm a Content Teacher

1/29/2013

I’m a ____________ (math, science, social studies...) Teacher: How Can I Help a Struggling Reader?

Let’s begin with some reminders about what content literacy actually is. Content literacy (reading and writing in the content area) focuses on strategies for students to use so that they understand specific subject matter and to become more active and independent readers.
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SDE Conference for Ohio Second & Third Grade Teachers: Handouts

1/29/2013

Katie will be presenting Jan 31 in Columbus, OH at the SDE Conference for Ohio Second & Third Grade Teachers.

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Common Core State Standards 4-1-1

1/22/2013

The first thing that we need to think about when we look at CCSS and this new generation of standards is one of the most important aspects about it: students are at the center of learning.

When you read the CCSS, you’ll notice that the standards are written from a student perspective and provides us with a lens as we consider the “how and why” of our instruction at the classroom level. Using this lens, we notice that CCSS defines skills and how these skills can be used and developed in order to acquire content knowledge (and be able to use that content knowledge in significant, meaningful and original ways).

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Speed Date: Reading Strategies

1/17/2013

Last week I worked with my teacher friends at George Washington Community High School in Indianapolis, IN. For the past 20 months we shared a tremendous amount of knowledge and it was definitely time to catalogue all that we know. Recently, the teachers prioritized reviewing and sharing the interdisciplinary literacy strategies. In order to accomplish the cataloguing of their vast knowledge, I introduced “speed dating” to the faculty during the professional learning committee (PLC) meetings last week. Here are step-by-step directions for “speed dating” as a teaching and learning strategy that can also use with your students.

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Victims of Standardized Testing: Where Have All of the Instructional Days Gone?

1/15/2013

Not dissimilar from many other districts across the country, Indianapolis Public Schools are dealing with educational conflicts between sound, research-based instruction, student achievement and the drive to use data to measure student achievement. Let’s also add tremendous political pressure to shut down schools that are deemed underperforming as indicated by test data.

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Bedrock Education in the 21st Century?

1/8/2013

Oftentimes when I talk to teachers about education technology I use the following metaphor: educators are driving around in a Fred Flintstone car and our kids are driving around in the Toyota Prius. The kids look at us and think to themselves, “Why are the teachers driving around in the Fred Flintstone car when they could be driving around in the Prius?”

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