Classroom Strategies

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Explore classroom guidance, techniques, and activities to help you meet the needs of ALL students.

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Shaking Up High School Math

Executive Functions and Literacy Skills in the Classroom

Connecting and Communicating With Families to Help Break Down Barriers to Learning

Tools and Resources

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Discover new tools and materials to integrate into you instruction.

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Culture, Community, and Collaboration

Vertical Progression of Math Strategies – Building Teacher Understanding

“Can I have this? Can I have that?”

Materials Adaptation

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Find instructions and recommendations on how to adapt your existing materials to better align to college- and career-ready standards.

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Textbooks: Who Needs Them?

Which Types of Content Are Key in Content-Focused Professional Learning in Mathematics?

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Which Types of Content Are Key in Content-Focused Professional Learning in ELA/Literacy?

Standards-Alignment Information

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Learn what it means for instructional materials and assessment to be aligned to college- and career-ready standards.

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Let’s Not Make Power ELA/Literacy Standards and Talk About Why We Didn’t

What to Consider if You’re Adopting a New ELA/Literacy Curriculum

Not Your Mom’s Professional Development

Research and Reflections

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Delve into new research and perspectives on instructional materials and practice.

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Summer Reading Club 2023

Collaborating for Multilingual Learners in the Real World

Thoughts on The Right to Read

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What the Data Can’t Tell Us

Concerns about summative assessment in a pandemic year

03/25/21, Katie Keown, Astrid Fossum, Jun Li, John Young

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A New Way to Consider Cognitive Demand in ELA Assessments

A Framework for Text Complexity in ELA and Reading

11/08/19, Katie Keown

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Using Data Binders to Increase Student Independence

A tool for fostering intentional and purposeful learning

03/21/19, John Silverthorne

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Using Exit Tickets Strategically

Educators share how they've made exit tickets a powerful tool for supporting students

02/22/19, Tika Epstein, Cathy Carter-Shide, Morgan Stipe, Karen Hernandez, Dina O'Brien

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Formative Assessments and Feedback in the Digital Age

How implementing Pear Deck changed my classroom.

07/06/18, Jeff Crayton

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Illuminating Interims

What makes a good interim assessment program?

06/07/18, Laura Hansen

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The Role of Educators in Summative Assessment: The Life Cycle of a Question

An inside look at the development of summative assessments

05/02/18, Laura Hansen

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Understanding vocabulary standards: Building students’ skills

Differentiation between the vocabulary standards in the Reading and Language Strands

01/22/18, Vincent Segalini , Melissa Beck

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Most-Read Articles of 2017

12/15/17, Student Achievement Partners

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A Five-Course Meal Complete with Strategies for Assessment

Concrete strategies to help classroom educators get involved with assessment design

11/21/17, Bryan Drost

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The Many Positive Uses for Assessment

Three ways to use assessment for good

11/15/17, Rob Woodworth

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Instead of…Try This

Avoid common pitfalls in the ELA classroom with these strategies

10/03/17, Andrea Raines

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Assessing Grammar and Language Convention Skills

New guidance explains how to assess writing skills through embedded-error passages and multiple-choice items

09/18/17, Laura Hansen, Katie Keown

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I have an assessment dream: Leading to conquer the big, bad ELA test

A curriculum director explains how to help educators see the potential of aligned assessment

05/31/17, Bryan Drost

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What Do They Actually Know?

Using mini-assessments to break free of the norm

01/23/17, Rob Woodworth

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Most-Read Articles of 2016

12/21/16, Student Achievement Partners

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Taking Ownership over Assessments – A Case Study in Kentucky

Assessments should align to good standards-based instruction. Instruction shouldn’t align to a bad assessment.

12/06/16, Jenni Aberli

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Getting to Know Mini-Assessments

Learn about free, high-quality mini-assessments for math and literacy.

11/23/16, Astrid Fossum, Laura Hansen

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Assessment Item Alignment Modules

Learn how examining assessment items can be a source of professional development and deepen your understanding of the Shifts

09/19/16, Shelbi Cole, Katie Keown

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Lessons from the Fordham Assessment Review

One of the reviewers explains how the assessment review was conducted and what the findings mean for educators and students.

08/23/16, Amy Youngblood

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Sitting Beside the Learner: The ‘Me’ in Assessments

Common Core-aligned assessments must capitalize on teacher-student relationships

08/15/16, Bryan Drost