I am a connected educator. Through dynamic networks such as Twitter, the National Writing Project, MERIT, and Google Certified Teachers, I can start every day with amazing new resources and thought-provoking, shared conversations on educational topics – such as the Common Core State Standards. Below are a few of my favorite CCSS-related links that have […]
Common Core State Standards
David Coleman on Teaching Reading
What the world needs most right now is wonderful questions about things worth reading. Things worth read and rereading that don’t avoid the text but bring kids into a deeper consideration of it.” David Coleman David Coleman? Although I’ve been visiting the Common Core State Standards site for over a year now, it was just […]
Common Core State Standards – What do you think?
Just started looking through the newly released Common Core State Standards. I like the fact that technology is integrated through writing – across the curriculum, rather than as a separate subject. So what’s the downside of Common Core State Standards? I’ve read through Ben Boychuk’s special to the Sac Bee and can see that: The […]