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Doing Better: Aligned Instructional Practice
An overview of the Instructional Practice Guide suite of tools
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Making the Connection Between Materials and Instruction
Why instructional practice should be at the heart of all instructional materials decisions
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Seeing College- and Career-Ready Standards through Instruction
Exploring the updates to the Instructional Practice Guide
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Formative Assessments and Feedback in the Digital Age
How implementing Pear Deck changed my classroom.
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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
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The 3 R’s + 4 C’s = 7th Heaven (Part 2)
A technology integrationist introduces digital tools to support collaboration, communication, creativity, and critical thinking.
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The 3 R’s + 4 C’s = 7th Heaven
A Technology Integrationist’s Guide to 21st Century Learning (Part 1)
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The Digital Coaching Menu: Four Reasons Why You Need One
Providing teachers with content-focused options for coaching support
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Three APPS to Support Students with Special Needs
Helping All Kids Grapple with Grade-Level Content
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Creating Student Empowerment Through Your Garden-Variety Graphic Organizer
How I use graphic organizers in my classroom to promote student independence
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A Five-Course Meal Complete with Strategies for Assessment
Concrete strategies to help classroom educators get involved with assessment design
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Designing Effective Homework
Best practices for creating homework that raises student achievement
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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.
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Creating a Feedback Culture
Using effective feedback to help students master their learning goals
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Supporting Excellence: Real Support for Teachers Starts With the District’s Curriculum
A new framework for developing and implementing clear district-wide support for teaching and learning
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Setting S.M.A.R.T. Goals as an Educator
See how using this goal-setting structure can help you achieve content-focused goals during the school year
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State of Our Classrooms: Instructional Materials
Findings from a 2017 survey about instructional materials usage among educators
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Building Teacher Confidence through Content-Infused PD
Working with teachers to improve their understanding and use of curricular materials
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“We’re the best. Just trust us!”
Finding unbiased information about instructional materials.
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Five Places for Trusted Resource Recommendations
Amid the sea of free online materials and digital applications, here are five places we’d start our search.
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Pinterest: A Useful Tool for the Educator’s Toolbox
Learn how educators can use Pinterest to identify and collect high-quality instructional resources
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Strategies to Support Learners Who Are Below Grade Level
An experienced educator introduces different support methods to allow struggling students to engage with grade-level materials.
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Getting to Know Mini-Assessments
Learn about free, high-quality mini-assessments for math and literacy.
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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
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Adapting Journeys Common Core
A veteran Journeys user shares recommendations to improve basal lessons and better support teachers and students.
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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.
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Supporting All Learners with Complex Texts
Strategies to scaffold instruction of Standards-aligned, complex texts
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Sitting Beside the Learner: The ‘Me’ in Assessments
Common Core-aligned assessments must capitalize on teacher-student relationships
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A Recommendation to Fellow Publishers
The President of Core Knowledge challenges fellow publishers to complete an alignment rubric
