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UH - Digital History The Standards Building on the best of existing state standards, the Common Core State Standards provide clear and consistent learning goals to help prepare students for college, career, and life. The standards clearly demonstrate what students are expected to learn at each grade level, so that every parent and teacher can understand and support their learning. The standards are: Research and evidence basedClear, understandable, and consistentAligned with college and career expectationsBased on rigorous content and the application of knowledge through higher-order thinking skillsBuilt upon the strengths and lessons of current state standardsInformed by other top-performing countries to prepare all students for success in our global economy and society According to the best available evidence, the mastery of each standard is essential for success in college, career, and life in today’s global economy. For grades K-8, grade-by-grade standards exist in English language arts/literacy and mathematics.

Project Based Learning At the Buck Institute for Education (BIE), our highest priority is to help teachers prepare students for successful lives. We do this by showing teachers how to use Project Based Learning in all grade levels and subject areas. As a mission-driven nonprofit organization, BIE creates, gathers, and shares high-quality PBL instructional practices and products and provides highly effective services to teachers, schools, and districts. For teachers, BIE offers professional development on how to design, assess, and manage projects that engage and motivate students.

Assessments The Project has compiled the following assessment materials, which we use in our professional development services. Please free feel to download, distribute and use most of the assessment materials in your work. However, you will note that the Spelling Assessments require that you log in to your account in order to access these materials. The authors have approved access to this assessment tool only for schools that are receiving professional development services from our staff. Please send comments or questions to assessment@readingandwritingproject.com.

Commas and Semi Colons By Ginger Eiden-Web Content Manager City of Glendale, Arizona Stardust Journalism Program-Grammar/AP Style Mentor Written with the help of Amanda Sass. Lesson overview: This lesson is designed to review the use of commas and semi-colons. Outcomes: 1. 2. Lesson introduction: Ask students to list rules they know regarding the use of commas and semi-colons. Group activity part 1: Divide students into groups of four. Now give each group the list of rules and tell them to go back through the sentences and correct any errors in their initial attempt at inserting commas and semi-colons. Assessment/Practice: Distribute the second worksheets and have students complete them. Worksheet 1 Complete the sentences below by correctly inserting commas and semi-colons. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Basic Rules for Using Commas and Semi-Colons Comma Rules: 1. Examples: I like working outside, and I also enjoy reading. 2. Examples: In order to be successful, one must learn to write well. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 1. 2. 3.

Writer's Diet™ Test The WritersDiet Test Is your writing flabby or fit? Enter a writing sample of 100 to 1000 words and click Run the test. ATTENTION USERS: Please note that the WritersDiet Test is an automated feedback tool, not an assessment tool. The test identifies some of the sentence-level grammatical features that most frequently weigh down academic prose. Run the test! The test automatically excludes in-text citations and all other parenthetical text. The test automatically includes all text in single quotes. The test automatically includes all text in double quotes. If you use certain keywords frequently (e.g. education, organization), you can exclude them from the word count by typing them into the text box. Wildcards can be used: * stands for any letters (so *tion means any word ending in tion), ? Please note that you may need to re-specify the excluded words when you test a new sample.

engageNY - common core curriculum resources Common Core Curriculum In order to assist schools and districts with the implementation of the Common Core, NYSED has provided curricular modules and units in P-12 ELA and math that can be adopted or adapted for local purposes. Full years of curricular materials are currently availableon EngageNY, for grades Kindergarten through 9th grade in Mathematicsand Kindergarten through 8th grade in English Language Arts (ELA). NYSED is working with our partners to deliver high quality curricular materials for all remaining gradesin both Mathematics and ELA. In Mathematics, full years of instruction will be available for all remaining grades this summer. In ELA, full years of instruction will be available in 9th and 10th grade this summer and 11th and 12th grade this fall. Guidance on Integrating Curricular Materials into the Classroom The optional curricular materials on EngageNY are designed to be adopted or adapted. These optional curriculum materials will: Curriculum modules will include:

Common Core Resources Based on long-term goals of college and career readiness for all students, as well as global readiness, the Common Core State Standards call for a general ramping-up of expectations for students at all levels, and specifically an attention to higher-level thinking skills as they play out in reading, writing, speaking, and listening. The TCRWP has studied the CCSS closely in order to understand their infrastructure, locate the standards that enable a host of other proficiencies, and adjust curricular plans in order to address potential instructional gaps. Lucy Calkins, Mary Ehrenworth, and Chris Lehman authored Pathways to the Common Core to help school districts rally to the challenges and opportunities the CCSS provide. Throughout our staff development, our leadership and specialty courses, conference days with teachers and school leaders, and institutes, the TCRWP aims to share information, insight and methods pertaining to the CCSS. We, the TCRWP Community, take the position that:

Bloomin' Apps This page gathers all of the Bloomin' Apps projects in one place.Each image has clickable hotspots and includes suggestions for iPad, Android, Google and online tools and applications to support each of the levels of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy.I have created a page to allow you to share your favorite online tool, iOS, or Android app with others. Cogs of the Cognitive Processes I began to think about the triangular shape of Bloom's Taxonomy and realized I thought of it a bit differently.Since the cognitive processes are meant to be used when necessary, and any learner goes in and out of the each level as they acquire new content and turn it into knowledge, I created a different type of image that showcased my thoughts about Bloom's more meaningfully.Here is my visual which showcases the interlocking nature of the cognitive processes or, simply, the "Cogs of the Cognitive Processes". IPAD APPS TO SUPPORT BLOOM'S REVISED TAXONOMYassembled by Kathy Schrock​ Bloom's and SAMR: My thoughts