Skill Building the CCSS Way
June 20, 2016What do the 2016 ACTions mean for education? More reform; more alignment, and more data mining.
Tag: PARCC assessments
States Get Graded CCR, Style!
March 17, 2016How CCR is measured in your state. How it connects to the ESSA.
Weekend News: College, Career Readiness Updates
October 3, 2015Warriors Against all things connected to Common Core, this weekend’s news will give you an update on CCR, ‘college and career readiness’. We know there are ‘CCR Standards’. What else can we learn? What defines ‘college, career readiness’? If we look at…
Monday Musings: Purposed Embedding for the Core
March 2, 2015Going through my email a couple of days ago, I opened this ‘lovely gem’. It’s all about how I can learn to purposefully embed formative assessments in my classroom. While many anti CCSS warriors AND pro CCSS supporters have tackled formative assessments,…
FTF: Creating Common Core Minions
February 17, 2015“Create” (Consortium for Research on Educational Assessment and Teacher Effectiveness). Common Core is all over this Consortium. Here are their own words about their vision, “The vision of the Consortium for Research on Educational Assessment and Teaching Effectiveness (CREATE) is improved student…
Monday Musings: Assessments Data Mining, CCSS Style
January 12, 2015Common Core aligned projects, initiatives, and assessments appear to be a dime a dozen these days. So when a new one pops up, many don’t really notice. For example, did you know the U.S. Dept of Education AND the U.S. Dept of…