Materials Adaptation Archives - Peers and Pedagogy

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

The Professional Learning Core Content in ELA/Literacy

09/25/20, Kate Crist, Jun Li

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Mistakes Tell Us What Students Are Ready to Learn

Learning from students' mistakes to enhance instruction

03/13/20, Michael Pershan

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Reaching New Heights

A Framework for Examining Cognitive Complexity in Mathematics

01/06/20, Shelbi Cole, Ph.D, Ted Coe, Ph.D

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Math Instructional Routines: Creating Opportunities for Students With Disabilities to Grapple with Grade-Level Math

How Routines for Reasoning can support all students to engage with the mathematical practices

12/01/19, Grace Kelemanik, Amy Lucenta

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Designing and Integrating a Grade 3 Assessment on Fractions

A Q&A With Raven Redmond and Jennifer Ahearn

11/15/19, Raven Redmond, Jennifer Ahearn

Developing the Math Language Routines

Foster Student Participation Through Building Math Language, Practices, and Content

10/28/19, Jack Dieckmann, Renae Skarin

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The Connection Between Math Materials and Assessment

What happens when curricula and summative assessments don't match?

09/28/18, Shelbi Cole, Anna Schattauer Paillé

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enVisionmath 2.0: Focusing the K-5 Mathematics Curriculum

The process and the documents one district designed to support alignment of their curriculum to the standards.

05/30/18, Jaime Pitkin

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Making enVisionmath 2.0 Work

An Introduction to Adapting enVisionmath 2.0 K-5

04/25/18, Anna Schattauer Paillé, Marni Greenstein

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Three Ways You Can Improve Your Math Textbook Tomorrow

A mathematics specialist shares quick adaptations you can apply to any textbook to quickly improve it to better serve students.

03/29/18, Marni Greenstein

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Three APPS to Support Students with Special Needs

Helping All Kids Grapple with Grade-Level Content

12/21/17, Dr. Bryan Drost

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Most-Read Articles of 2017

12/15/17, Student Achievement Partners

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The Instructional Practice Toolkit: An Introduction

Learn how the Instructional Practice Toolkit can help teachers make connections between planning, instruction, and student outcomes.

09/22/17, Rachel Etienne

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Creating Professional Learning for Eureka Math

Approaching year three of implementation, a math interventionist describes how her district has supported teachers in using the curriculum

07/28/17, Tina Eisenbeis

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Students JUMP at the Opportunity to Learn

Building confidence with JUMP Math’s guided discovery approach.

07/26/17, Melanie Greene

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Designing content-infused, year-round professional learning in math

A math specialist illustrates the importance of providing ongoing professional development centered on quality programming.

07/18/17, Carie DeBaca

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Finding Our Way in Fluency – A School’s Journey to Strengthen Math Fluency Instruction

A personal story of how educators built their knowledge of mathematics fluency from the ground up, and identified creative ways to help their students master fluency expectations

07/05/17, Amanda Davis, Catie Warren

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Eureka Math – A View from Second Grade

An honest reflection on Eureka Math's strengths and challenges

06/16/17, Whitney Haynes

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A Third Grade Teacher’s Perspective on Eureka Math

What does Eureka look like in the classroom?

05/22/17, Jessica Doughty

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Empowering Primary Math Teachers

How one school moved from contention to ownership of their math curriculum

03/27/17, Danielle Brown

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Lessons Learned after Teaching without a Textbook

A high school teacher explores the lessons learned after moving away from a textbook-based curriculum.

02/14/17, Bob Janes

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Math in Focus: The Search for an Aligned Math Program

One district’s implementation of a new elementary math program

02/10/17, Kathryn Lemerich

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Navigating the Spiral in Mathematics Textbooks

A classroom teacher and curriculum coordinator describe how they used the spiral design of their textbook to help them focus on creating coherent instruction.

02/02/17, Bethany Lockhart, Jody Guarino

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Using an EdReports Review to Improve My Math Curriculum

A 5th grade teacher explains how she made small adjustments to improve the Everyday Math Curriculum after identifying its weaknesses.

01/26/17, Ingrid Beaty

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Most-Read Articles of 2016

12/21/16, Student Achievement Partners

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Everyday Math Kindergarten Tips

A kindergarten teacher explains how she adapted some of the Everyday Math Daily Routines to challenge her students more.

12/12/16, Bethany Lockhart

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Introduction to EdReports

Identifying excellence in instructional materials

11/28/16, Mia Peterson

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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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Everyday Math: Small Routines Build Bigger Understanding

A Kindergarten teacher dives into Everyday Math and finds ways to make minor Routines into Major Work of the Grade practice

11/08/16, Bethany Lockhart

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Putting Focus into Practice: The Case of Word Problems in Grades K–2

Standards co-author Jason Zimba explains how word problems can build understanding of addition and subtraction.

10/18/16, Jason Zimba

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Adapting Journeys Common Core

A veteran Journeys user shares recommendations to improve basal lessons and better support teachers and students.

09/07/16, Karen Vogelsang

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Supporting All Learners with Complex Texts

Strategies to scaffold instruction of Standards-aligned, complex texts

08/17/16, Carey Swanson

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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

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How to Adapt GO Math!

Guidance Documents to Support the Alignment of GO Math! to the CCSSM

08/03/16, Kevin Larkin

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Digging Deeper into SMP 4 – Model with Mathematics

Learn the difference between modeling the math and modeling WITH math

07/29/16, Sarah Galasso

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Choosing Alignment over Familiarity

How a district made the decision to select a new textbook provider instead of a long-used vendor

07/18/16, Carolyn Karatzas Eastman

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Putting the Math Practices into Practice

A K-12 math team collaborated in creating tools about the practices to enhance understanding and planning

06/29/16, Wichita Public Schools - Mathematics Department

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Digging Deeper into SMP 3 – Construct Viable Arguments and Critique the Reasoning of Others

A math teacher explains how to recognize math tasks that help students craft strong mathematical arguments

06/17/16, Sarah Galasso

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Criteria for Curricular Materials Labeled as Appropriate for ELLs

How to determine whether instructional materials support ELL's needs

05/05/16, Diane Staehr Fenner

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Essential Knowledge for Adapting Math Instructional Materials

What do teachers need to know to make decisions about adapting math materials?

03/23/16, Jody Guarino

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Supplementing Your Anchor Math Curriculum with Rich Tasks

A New York math specialist explains how he’s enhanced his school’s curriculum with tasks from Illustrative Mathematics.

03/16/16, David Michal

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A More Powerful Teacher’s Guide

How administrators can help teachers sort through the clutter in today’s math textbooks

02/23/16, Lauren DelFavero

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Decision-Making that Matters: 10 Ways Teachers Can Impact Curricular Decisions

A high school English teacher shares 10 ways classroom teachers can influence curriculum

01/20/16, Lauren Trahan

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Top Five Ways to Make the Most of Your Math Materials

If you’re not satisfied with the quality and CCSS-alignment of your existing math materials, here are five tips to improve them.

01/05/16, Student Achievement Partners

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Outcomes of the Adaptation Process

New case studies share a look at the process of adapting math and ELA materials

11/13/15, Stacy Wetcher

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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

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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

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Collaborative Learning and Updating Materials

Developing a process for teachers to adapt instructional materials in mathematics

09/22/15, Illustrative Mathematics

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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

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An Introduction to the Adapting Materials Project

The challenging, yet rewarding process of adapting instructional materials

08/20/15, Stacy Wetcher

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Publishing Review Results

Why Louisiana chose to share all its curricular reviews online and where you can see the findings

08/13/15, Student Achievement Partners

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Working with Publishers

How Louisiana communicated its alignment concerns to publishers

06/30/15,

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Using What You Have

An introduction to supplementing and adapting instructional materials

06/26/15,

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Conducting a State-Centered Curriculum Review

Selecting and training the review team

05/13/15,

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New Standards, New Approach to Reviews

Details Louisiana's instructional materials review process

04/10/15,

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