Series - Peers and Pedagogy

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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Serving Language Learners From an Asset-Based Lens

Using Math Milestones to Activate Student Agency

Students Know Themselves Best

Tools and Resources

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Discover new tools and materials to integrate into you instruction.

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How the Text Analysis Toolkit Expands Both Teaching and Learning in Classrooms

Text Complexity is…well…complex!

Challenging the Status Quo

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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Helping Our Students See Themselves and the World Through the Books They Read in Our Classrooms

Textbooks: Who Needs Them?

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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The Science of Reading as a Literacy for All Campaign

High-Quality Curriculum Raised the Bar, But Not High Enough

Research-based AND Responsive

Achieve The Core

Part 1

Introduction to Open Educational Resources

What are OER? Where can you find them? How should you use them?

07/09/15, Barbara Soots

Part 2

Open Educational Resources in Action

Washington's work to identify OER and put them to use in classrooms

07/17/15, Barbara Soots

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

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

Part 5

Creating Full-Course Open Educational Resources (OER)

The K-12 OER Collaborative plans to create a year-long open educational resources curriculum.

12/03/15, Karl Nelson, Jennifer Wolfe