Skill Building the CCSS Way
What do the 2016 ACTions mean for education? More reform; more alignment, and more data mining.
Continue Reading
Tag: SBAC assessments
States Get Graded CCR, Style!
How CCR is measured in your state. How it connects to the ESSA.
Continue ReadingWeekend News: College, Career Readiness Updates
Warriors 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 the pro CCSS parameters, CCR (college, career readiness) is: 1) “With the growing […]
Continue ReadingSic’ ‘Em Saturday: Open Letter to CCSS Assessments
A special edition of my “Sic’ ‘Em Saturday. My thanks to whomever created the graphic you see above. What you’ll find my anti CCSS warriors, is a letter I’d love to see written to any of those CCSS assessment writers. To my Mom or Dad, I HATE the TESTS you write! If you think I […]
Continue ReadingMonday Musings: Purposed Embedding for the Core
Going 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, we still are seeing new resources everyday geared to help us shine in […]
Continue ReadingFTF: Creating Common Core Minions
“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 learning, development, and achievement in PK-12 schools, institutes of higher education, and other […]
Continue ReadingWYBI Wednesday: National Center for Post Secondary Research and CCSS
It’s “Would You Believe It Wednesday” and I cannot think of a better follow up for this week’s “From the File Tuesday” about SHEEO, the CCSSO, and CCSS than today’s eye-opener of a research paper by the NCPSR (National Center for Post Secondary Research) describing in detail the purposed implementation of CCSS!! In our above […]
Continue Reading