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Small Pivots to Access Complex Text Across the Curriculum

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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?

Mistakes Tell Us What Students Are Ready to Learn

Standards-Alignment Information

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

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Knowledge-Building Model Lessons for Middle and High School

What Principles Must Underlie Successful Personalized Learning?

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

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Why Re-Humanize Assessment?

What We Pay Attention to Matters

Meeting the Needs of Every Student No Matter What

Tools and Resources

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Discover new tools and materials to integrate into you instruction.

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most recent articles

Top Posts of 2020

Meeting the Needs of Every Student No Matter What

Small Pivots to Access Complex Text Across the Curriculum

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.

See all posts

most recent articles

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

Teacher working at a laptop

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

Mistakes Tell Us What Students Are Ready to Learn

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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most recent articles

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

Not Your Mom’s Professional Development

Reaching New Heights

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What Principles Must Underlie Successful Personalized Learning?

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Research and Reflections
Part 1

Is it Possible to Use Personalized Learning to Accelerate Students’ Literacy Outcomes in the Time of COVID?

Examining the research base
10/06/20, Meredith Liben, Tanji Reed Marshall, Susan Pimentel
Research and Reflections, Standards-Alignment Information, Tools and Resources
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Not Your Mom’s Professional Development

What needs to change in professional learning design
03/06/20, Rachel Etienne
Research and Reflections
Part null

We’re Bullish on Bookworms

A reflection on the free Bookworms ELA curriculum for K-5
12/10/18, David Liben, Meredith Liben, Sue Pimentel
Research and Reflections, Tools and Resources
Part null

Observing Reading Foundational Skills Instruction

Introducing a new tool to observe the components of foundational skills instruction
10/23/18, Carey Swanson
Classroom Strategies, Research and Reflections, Standards-Alignment Information
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Doing Better: Aligned Instructional Practice

An overview of the Instructional Practice Guide suite of tools
09/19/18, Destiny Eldridge, April Pforts
Classroom Strategies, Tools and Resources
Part null

Building A Culturally Responsive Classroom

Why building a culturally responsive classroom matters for the success of ALL students
09/07/18, Jill Yamasawa Fletcher
Classroom Strategies, Research and Reflections, Standards-Alignment Information
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Considering Reading Instruction with the End in Mind

Meet students not only where they are, but also where they're going.
07/30/18, Carey Swanson
Materials Adaptation, Research and Reflections, Standards-Alignment Information, Tools and Resources
Part 2

Piloting New Curriculum Options with Educators

Learn about OUSD’s piloting process and find out what teachers thought of three popular ELA/literacy programs
09/01/16, Student Achievement Partners
Materials Adaptation, Research and Reflections
Part 2

Designing a New ELA Curriculum

How Core Knowledge is different than other curriculum options
05/03/16, Linda Bevilacqua
Classroom Strategies, Research and Reflections
Part 1

The Shifts and ELLs

An ELL expert explains what the Common Core means for teachers of English language learners
04/28/16, Diane Staehr Fenner
Standards-Alignment Information
Part 1

Common Confusions about CCSS-Aligned ELA Materials

Core Knowledge's Linda Bevilacqua explains where purchasers can improve their CCSS understanding to make better decisions
04/22/16, Linda Bevilacqua
Research and Reflections
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Why We’re Choosing Instructional Materials Blindly

A Brookings Institution report explains how much we DON’T know about instructional materials in use in today’s classrooms.
02/05/16, Student Achievement Partners
Materials Adaptation, Research and Reflections
Part 7

Using Complex Texts with All Readers

A reading interventionist explains the strategies she uses to help struggling readers benefit from complex texts.
01/27/16, Katherine Linnehan
Materials Adaptation, Uncategorized
Part null

Call for Common Core-Aligned Units

Achieve and SAP are looking for instructional materials aligned to the CCSS to address weaknesses in existing materials
10/15/15, Cristina Marks, Jeremy Thomas
Research and Reflections, Tools and Resources
Part null

The EQuIP Review Process and Rubric

Achieve created a rubric and review process to facilitate peer reviews
10/08/15, Student Achievement Partners
Research and Reflections, Standards-Alignment Information
Part 4

K-12 OER Collaborative’s Request for Proposals

Learn how the Collaborative is planning on creating and vetting materials.
09/30/15, Karl Nelson, Jennifer Wolfe
Materials Adaptation, Research and Reflections, Tools and Resources
Part 3

Working Together to Create Open Educational Resources

The K-12 OER Collaborative is working to create Common Core-aligned resources
09/25/15, Karl Nelson, Jennifer Wolfe
Materials Adaptation, Research and Reflections, Standards-Alignment Information
Part 4

Collaborative Learning and Updating Materials

Developing a process for teachers to adapt instructional materials in mathematics
09/22/15, Illustrative Mathematics
Materials Adaptation, Research and Reflections
Part 3

What Needs to Change in Instructional Materials: ELA

A panel of experts pinpointed the biggest problems with today’s ELA/literacy materials
09/15/15, Rachel Etienne
Materials Adaptation, Research and Reflections, Tools and Resources
Part null

Six Instructional Materials Articles You Should Be Reading

Keep up-to-date with the latest media coverage of instructional materials
09/11/15, Student Achievement Partners
Research and Reflections
Part null

IMET Evolution: ELA/Literacy

An SAP literacy specialist explains how small changes to the IMET can have a big impact on users
09/02/15, Meredith Liben
Research and Reflections
Part null

IMET Evolution: Math

An SAP math specialist explains how small changes to the IMET can have a big impact on users
09/02/15, Marni Greenstein
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