FTF: CCSS ‘Pearsonites’, at Your Higher Ed Campuses Now!
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Monday Musings: CCSS Field Trips?
Who doesn’t love a great field trip with the class or group? How far as CCSS gone to line up these educational excursions? Let’s see if we can find out! Road Trip Ahead!: I don’t know how much you may or may not know about field trips. I know plenty. It used to be my […]
Continue ReadingFTF Tuesday: AACTE and Common Core
Have you heard of the AACTE? American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Their main goal? Prepping the next generation of teachers to lead in the classrooms. So, how aligned with Common Core programs are they? Let’s see if we can find out in today’s “From the Files” article. AACTE: Founded in 1948 (their 50th […]
Continue ReadingTech Thursday: Difference Between Careers
In our fight against Common Core, we’ve learned that it’s a lie to think CC is only for K-12. We’ve learned it’s before K and after 12th. So, what IS the difference between a Career Cluster and a Career Pathway? They are both Common Core aligned. I often thought they were the same thing, just […]
Continue ReadingFTF: Romancing the CCSS
If you’ve followed my blog long, you know that each Tuesday I feature a file of some sort that’s from the CC past. A few months ago, a devoted follower requested I supply documents from the ‘dark period’ for CC. What she shared was, the overabundance of proof that’s been uncovered from before the Core […]
Continue ReadingWYBI: Up Close with the NSF
How much do you know about the NSF (National Science Foundation) and their ties to CCSS and STEM? Would you believe Arne Duncan was considered an expert by them back in 2007? Yep! It happened. But wait, there’s more… A brief look at NSF’s History: NSF has been around since 1950. President Truman signed the […]
Continue ReadingRMT: New Education?
I don’t know about you, but being the researcher on Common Core Standards that I’ve become, I get quite a bit of email. So, imagine my surprise when I received the following excerpt, “Join us for this two-day opportunity to connect and collaborate with colleagues from the school, library, museum, and home learning worlds–and anyone […]
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