2014 Common Core Catalog

Solutions Fall 2014

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Challenges you’re facing

• Gaining the know-how to monitor and support the Common Core

• Aligning resources with the Common Core and filling any gaps

• Training staff to design assessments that align with the CCSS

• Increasing rigor and relevance in every classroom

• Integrating the literacy and mathematics standards into all academic disciplines

Here’s how we can help Our experts know the CCSS inside and out and have a deep understanding of the complexities and shifts you’re dealing with at the leadership and classroom levels. On these pages, you’ll find top-of-the-line resources, events, and on-site PD that will help your team leverage the work you’ve already done to move further ahead with successful integration.

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Common Core Services Integrating the Common Core Across All Content Areas • Learn to hold students accountable for writing competence across disciplines.

• Discover how to integrate speaking and listening requirements into course content.

• R ecognize recommended levels of rigor and text complexity, and explore scaffolding strategies to ensure student success.

Two days on-site with an expert Interactive web conferences Teaching Students to Read Like Detectives

Mapping the Common Core • Create a curriculum based on the Common Core State Standards.

• Experience an ongoing curriculum-mapping process that provides continuous improvement.

• Acquire dozens of tools to support curriculum mapping.

• Develop an evidence-based process to analyze student achievement data.

Two 2-day sessions on-site with an expert Interactive web conferences Building a Common Core–Based Curriculum

Performance Tasks, Scales, and Rubrics for the Common Core • Gain experience designing and assessing performance tasks aligned with the CCSS. • Design analytic and holistic rubrics.

• Recognize how to use proficiency scales effectively in the classroom.

Two days on-site with an expert Collaborating for Success With the Common Core

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COMMON CORE Coaching Academy

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Partner with leading experts to seamlessly integrate the Common Core State Standards into your curriculum. Gain hands-on strategies for classroom, leadership, curriculum, and assessment practices that can be implemented immediately. Your team will complete research through assigned reading after the first day of each session and create assessments as part of homework activities between sessions.

Carefully designed by CCSS experts, this academy: • Develops your school’s or district’s capacity for meeting the demands of the CCSS • I s facilitated by one or more experts who are trained in the CCSS and have considerable experience in education • Includes six days on-site with an expert (three sessions, two days each) and a selection of resources • Offers strategies and activities that can be replicated in any setting • Extends beyond session days with phone and email support

Features • Targeted homework is assigned after the first day of each session.

• A special Powerful Principles session for administrators will be held at the end of the first day of each session to address their leadership roles in the transformation.

• Every session will conclude with a debriefing for all attendees.

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Curriculum and Assessment Application

SESSION 1: Next-Generation Readiness

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Participants brainstorm the shifts required in critical areas for full integration.

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Teams determine how to use the unpacking process to create student-friendly learning targets.

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Participants assess their needs by indicating past steps and future directions.

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Leadership teams explore the complexities and demands of the CCSS.

CAA

Considerations for curriculum and assessment changes are explored.

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A crosswalk document is used to show connections between previous standards and current CCSS. Teams discuss: What will be assessed? What is the guaranteed and viable curriculum? How can the standards be placed in a yearlong plan to determine when proficiency is expected to inform assessments and instruction?

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SESSION 2: Last Things First

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Determine what the teachers will need to know and be able to do to create assessments aligned with the CCSS during team reflection time.

Leadership teams share their next-generation readiness vision statements.

Participants learn what to consider when designing assessments that include relevance and rigor.

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Participants collaboratively score site-created assessments and use student work to determine evidence of learning.

LA

Develop a plan for creating and using common formative and summative assessments during team reflection time.

CAA

Participants will: • Learn how to create proficiency scales and rubrics to determine student achievement.

• Use the Quality Indicators for Assessments to rate team, school, or district assessments.

• Build a Common Assessment Protocol, and discuss how it can be used to create an assessment plan.

• Give feedback to other teams regarding their common assessments using the Assessment Review Protocol.

SESSION 3: Closing the Gap

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Participants will: • Identify shifts in teaching practices needed to create student engagement.

• Develop a shared understanding of student engagement and what evidence to look for/collect related to student engagement.

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Participants explore how to meet the needs of all students through quality core instruction as they learn grade-level CCSS.

Leadership teams discuss how full integration of the CCSS fits in the current school initiatives and system alignment.

• Determine the necessary shifts in mathematics and cross-content instruction.

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Leadership teams use their vision statement to determine building direction for next-generation common assessments.

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Cultural Literacy for the Common Core

Six Steps to Powerful, Practical Instruction for All Learners

By Bonnie M. Davis Foreword by Mary Kim Schreck

Build your cultural literacy while inspiring deep, thoughtful, unbiased thinking in students.

Discover a six-step framework for becoming culturally literate that complements the Common Core and encourages students to be at the center of learning. Explore how to develop teacherstudent relationships, engage in collaborative conversations, and encourage feedback to give voice to the increasingly diverse student body found in today’s classrooms. 224 pages Benefits • Motivate students to take renewed ownership of their learning.

• Stimulate creative thinking with culturally responsive instruction.

• Cultivate reflective dialogue through diverse lesson materials.

49BCJ–BKF592 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-40-2

Building a Common Core–Based Curriculum Mapping With Focus and Fidelity

By Susan Udelhofen Discover your road map for creating a curriculum based on the Common Core State Standards.

Explore various stages of curriculum development, from the preliminary work of building academic support to creating Common Core curriculum maps and tracking school improvement goals. Learn to effectively share information during the curriculum-building process, and engage in significant, collaborative conversations around the curriculum. 128 pages Benefits • Develop a curriculum founded on the Common Core State Standards.

• Learn the three essential structures for curriculum building: active administrative involvement, focused curriculum conversations, and effective assessments.

• Foster a collaborative environment in which teachers can share their teaching and learning expectations.

49BCJ–BKF549 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-68-6

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Teaching Common Core English Language Arts Standards 20 Lesson Frameworks for Elementary Grades

By Patricia M. Cunningham and James W. Cunningham Ensure students develop proficiency in reading, speaking and listening, writing, and language.

Explore 20 lesson frameworks to help teach the Common Core State Standards for English language arts. Discover targeted lessons to help students master critical skills, including how to organize ideas from informational texts, identify similarities and differences, scrutinize words to gain deeper meaning of readings, and write with grade-appropriate language. 208 pages; grades K–5 Benefits • Pair the gradual release of responsibility model with several lesson frameworks that support the CCSS for English language arts.

• Access a variety of tools and resources to help students master the CCSS for English language arts.

• Support the CCSS for English language arts goals to improve students’ reading comprehension, writing skills, and desire to read and write.

49BCJ–BKF617 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936763-25-2

20 Literacy Strategies to Meet the Common Core Increasing Rigor in Middle & High School Classrooms

By Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins and Allyson J. Burnett With the advent of the Common Core State Standards and high expectations with regard to content literacy, some secondary teachers are scrambling for what to do and how to do it. This book provides an accessible plan for implementing content literacy and offers 20 researchbased literacy strategies designed to help students meet those standards and become expert readers. 328 pages; grades 6–12 Benefits • Access activities, lesson plans, organizers, and other research-based tools that promote secondary content literacy.

• Strengthen your understanding of CCSS for English language arts and literacy in history/ social studies, science, and technical subjects.

• Learn 20 literacy strategies to help students become expert readers.

49BCJ–BKF588 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-28-0

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Bringing the Common Core to Life in K–8 Classrooms 30 Strategies to Build Literacy Skills

By Eric Jensen and LeAnn Nickelsen Actively engage students in their own learning. Discover strategies to promote student mastery of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts across the curriculum. Explore techniques to lead students in close reading, activate their background knowledge to prepare them for learning, and gain insight into habit formation. You’ll develop the know-how to effectively structure teaching to empower all students. 240 pages Benefits • Understand the components of engaged classrooms, and create an environment where students are active participants in their learning.

• Structure learning that encourages students to work smarter, not harder.

• Teach students to engage emotionally with text and to retain and explain what they read.

49BCJ–BKF442 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-64-8

Related Workshop Common Core for English Language Arts See page 15 for more information.

Vocabulary for the Common Core

By Robert J. Marzano and Julia A. Simms Bestseller The Common Core State Standards present unique demands on students’ ability to learn vocabulary and teachers’ ability to teach it. The authors address these challenges in this resource. Work toward the creation of a successful vocabulary program, guided by both academic and content-area terms taken directly from the mathematics and English language arts standards. 280 pages Benefits • Learn to incorporate CCSS vocabulary into teaching and student learning.

• Recognize the impact that quality vocabulary instruction can make on reading ability, mental process, and academic achievement.

• Understand how students learn vocabulary.

49BCJ–BKL014 $34.95 ISBN 978-0-9858902-2-3

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Common Core English Language Arts in a PLC at Work series TM

By Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Cynthia L. Uline These teacher guides illustrate how to sustain successful implementation of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts in K–12 instruction, curriculum, assessment, and intervention practices within the powerful Professional Learning Communities at WorkTM process. Teachers will discover the fundamental learning targets necessary for college and career readiness and how students can master them for each grade level. Each book includes comprehensive and research-affirmed analysis tools and strategies to help collaborative teams develop and assess student understanding.

Joint Publications With the International Reading Association

Grades K–2; 184 pages

Grades 3–5; 184 pages

Grades 6–8; 184 pages

Grades 9–12; 184 pages

49BCJ–BKF580 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-16-7

49BCJ–BKF582 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-19-8

49BCJ–BKF584 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-22-8

49BCJ–BKF586 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-25-9

Leader’s Guide; 144 pages 49BCJ–BKF578 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-13-6

Teaching Students to Read Like Detectives Comprehending, Analyzing, and Discussing Text

By Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Diane Lapp Bestseller Prompt students to become the sophisticated readers, writers, and thinkers they need to be to achieve higher learning. The authors explore the important relationship between text, learner, and learning. With an array of methods and assignments to establish critical literacy in a discussion-based and reflective classroom, you’ll encourage students to find meaning and cultivate thinking from even the most challenging expository texts. 176 pages 49BCJ–BKF499 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-52-7

Common Core State Standards in Literacy, Grades 3–8 Online Course

Presenters: Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey

Included ebook: Common Core English Language Arts in a PLC at Work™, Grades 3–5

Tackle the demands of the CCSS for English language arts, and differentiate instruction while aligning assessment practices. Work with Dr. Fisher and Dr. Frey to select appropriate texts for students, develop lesson plans focused on close reading and text-based discussion, master the art of checking for understanding through a variety of tasks, and link assessments with instruction.

Learning Outcomes • Identify the major goals of the CCSS for English language arts.

• Release responsibility to students to foster their learning.

• Check for understanding using oral language, questions, writing, projects, performances, and tests.

• Link formative and summative assessments with instruction.

CEUs: 49BCJ–KDS032 $279.00 3 Semester Hours: 49BCJ–KDS033 $499.00

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Empower your students to meet or exceed state expectations for mathematics achievement. Mathematics at Work™, designed by renowned experts and led by Dr. Timothy D. Kanold, is a research-affirmed and evidence-based K–12 collaborative professional development process used by diverse districts while demonstrating proven increases in student performance.

Work with us to exceed your expectations for student learning by using effective mathematical content, practices, and processes; gain a deeper understanding of how to use higher-level cognitive demand tasks; design effective and common mathematics assessments and homework; and deliver mathematics instruction using formative assessment processes every day.

DISTRICT SOLUTIONS M AT H E M AT I C S AT W O R K

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Mathematics Vision, Implementation, and Focus Implement systematic change in your district. This service integrates the lessons from Dr. Kanold’s The Five Disciplines of PLC Leaders and the Common Core Mathematics in a PLC at Work™ series to significantly improve sustainable districtwide results in mathematics.

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Mathematics Teaching and Learning Impact student learning using the Mathematics at Work™ 10 high-leverage team actions for effective instruction and assessment. Learn to teach mathematics based on the Standards for Mathematical Practice, and discover how to create and use high-quality assessments, homework, and formative assessment processes in the classroom.

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Coaching Academy: Deep Mathematics Teaching, Assessing, and Learning in a PLC Learn to design high-quality instruction and formative assessment processes based on the Common Core’s eight mathematical practices and the Mathematics at Work™ 10 high-leverage team actions.

The coaching academy—a train-the-trainer model—uses the PLC at Work™ teaching-assessinglearning cycle to achieve the necessary rigor, coherence, and focus of CCSS-M-type assessments.

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Embedded On-Site Coaching: Deep Mathematics Teaching, Assessing, and Learning in a PLC Engage in job-embedded real-time coaching and feedback on how to effectively teach, assess, and align mathematics instruction and formative assessment processes in and out of the classroom.

Teachers engage one-to-one with an expert both at their school building site and through virtual interactive coaching about their unit-by-unit work for effective lesson design, homework, and common assessment protocols. This service includes classroom observations and deep feedback for collaborative teams based on the 10 high-leverage team actions of Mathematics at Work™.

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Beyond the Common Core series Handbooks for Mathematics in a PLC at Work

New TM

Edited by Timothy D. Kanold

By Thomasenia Lott Adams, Diane J. Briars, Juli K. Dixon, Jessica Kanold-McIntyre, Timothy D. Kanold, Matthew R. Larson, Edward C. Nolan, and Mona Toncheff Designed to go well beyond the focus of your state’s standards, this series offers K–12 mathematics instructors and other educators in PLCs a step-by-step guide for developing a focused curriculum that significantly impacts student achievement. Your team will gain targeted support, uncover research-based strategies, and learn 10 high-leverage team actions they can take to ensure students achieve top levels of mathematics performance.

Benefits • Identify and cultivate the elements of mathematics instruction and assessment that yield the greatest impact on student learning.

• Increase student learning through 10 high-leverage team actions for mathematics instruction and assessment.

• Understand which actions must occur before, during, and after unit instruction with your collaborative team.

• Access reproducibles and appendices to gain instructional strategies aligned with your state’s standards.

Joint Publications With the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Grades K–5 49BCJ–BKF626 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936763-46-7

Available December Grades 6–8 49BCJ–BKF627 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936763-48-1

Available October High School 49BCJ–BKF628 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936763-50-4

“This K–5 mathematics teaching and assessing handbook is designed to take you beyond the product of standards themselves by providing you and your collaborative team with the guidance, support, and process tools necessary to achieve mathematics program greatness within the context of higher levels of demonstrated student learning and performance.”

—Beyond the Common Core (Grades K–5)

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Common Core Mathematics in a PLC at Work series TM

Edited by Timothy D. Kanold

By Thomasenia Lott Adams, Harold Asturias, Diane J. Briars, John A. Carter, Juli K. Dixon, Francis (Skip) Fennell, David Foster, Mardi A. Gale, Timothy D. Kanold, Beth McCord Kobett, Matthew R. Larson, Mona Toncheff, Jonathan A. Wray, and Gwendolyn Zimmermann These teacher guides illustrate how to sustain successful implementation of the Common Core State Standards for mathematics. Discover what students should learn and how they should learn it at each grade level. Comprehensive and research-affirmed analysis tools and strategies will help you and your collaborative team develop and assess student demonstrations of deep conceptual understanding and procedural fluency. You’ll also learn how fundamental shifts in collaboration, instruction, curriculum, assessment, and intervention can increase college and career readiness in every one of your students.

Joint Publications With the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Leader’s Guide; 176 pages

Grades K–2; 216 pages

Grades 3–5; 224 pages

Grades 6–8; 248 pages

High School; 224 pages

49BCJ–BKF559 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-936765-47-8

49BCJ–BKF566 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936765-97-3

49BCJ–BKF568 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-00-6

49BCJ–BKF574 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-10-5

49BCJ–BKF561 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936765-50-8

What Principals Need to Know About Teaching and Learning Mathematics

By Timothy D. Kanold, Diane J. Briars, and Francis (Skip) Fennell Ensure a challenging mathematics experience for every learner, every day. This must-have resource offers support and encouragement for improved mathematics achievement across every grade level of your school. With an emphasis on Principles and Standards for School Mathematics and Common Core State Standards, this book covers the importance of mathematics content, learning and instruction, and mathematics assessment. 136 pages; grades K–8 49BCJ–BKF501 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-55-8

A Joint Publication With the National Association of Elementary School Principals

Common Core State Standards in Mathematics, Grades 3–8 Online Course

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Presenters: Diane J. Briars and Timothy D. Kanold

Included ebook: Common Core Mathematics in a PLC at Work™, Grades 3–5

Dr. Kanold and Dr. Briars explain both the whys and the how-tos for implementing the CCSS for mathematics in this timely and practical course. You’ll gain strategies for teaching for understanding, tools for planning lessons and evaluating assessments, and classroom-ready tasks that put theory into practice. You’ll also visit classrooms where educators are piloting the CCSS to see their results.

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• Support the eight mathematical practices.

• Maintain high cognitive demand.

• Include assessing and advancing questions for formative assessment.

• Meet the needs of all learners.

CEUs: 49BCJ–KDS034 $279.00 3 Semester Hours: 49BCJ–KDS035 $499.00

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Using Common Core Standards to Enhance Classroom Instruction & Assessment

By Robert J. Marzano, David C. Yanoski, Jan K. Hoegh, and Julia A. Simms With Tammy Heflebower and Phil Warrick

Bestseller Discover how to weave an in-depth understanding of the Common Core into successful classroom practice with this two-part resource. You’ll learn how to power the standards with guided assessment and measure student progress in a way that accurately reflects learning. Included are hundreds of ready-to-use, research-based proficiency scales for both English language arts and mathematics. 304 pages

Benefits • Gain a clear understanding of what the CCSS are, how they are organized, and how they can be used in the classroom.

• Learn how to integrate 21st century thinking and reasoning into instruction.

• Design learning goals and proficiency standards geared toward individual students.

49BCJ–BKL015 $34.95 ISBN 978-0-9833512-9-0

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Common Formative Assessment A Toolkit for Professional Learning Communities at Work

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By Kim Bailey and Chris Jakicic Foreword by Richard DuFour and Rebecca DuFour

Bestseller Teams that engage in designing, using, and responding to common formative assessments are more knowledgeable about their own standards, more assessment literate, and able to develop more strategies for helping all students learn. In this conversational guide, the authors offer tools, templates, and protocols to incorporate common formative assessments into the practices of a PLC to monitor and enhance student learning. 144 pages

Benefits • Gain strategies for how to identify and unwrap power standards to use as the basis for learning targets and common formative assessments.

• Use protocols and reproducibles to facilitate the formative assessment process.

• Get tools to create pacing guides and to design units for conducting and responding to assessments.

49BCJ–BKF538 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-936765-14-0

Assessment and the Common Core State Standards Online Course

Presenter: Kay Burke

Included ebook: Balanced Assessment

Construct a balanced set of assessment tools that will improve instruction as well as gauge its success. Dr. Burke demonstrates how to repack the Common Core State Standards with a collaborative team, generate checklists and rubrics, share meaningful learning objectives with students, and craft performance tasks that will motivate students in every grade. Gain tools and strategies you can use immediately.

Learning Outcomes • Identify power standards.

• Repack the Common Core State Standards as part of a collaborative team.

• Collaborate with grade-level or subject-area teams to create common assessments.

• Create performance tasks, checklists, and rubrics appropriate to your grade level or subject area.

CEUs: 49BCJ–KDS013 $279.00 3 Semester Hours: 49BCJ–KDS014 $499.00

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How to Teach Thinking Skills Within the Common Core Seven Key Student Proficiencies of the New National Standards

By James A. Bellanca, Robin J. Fogarty, and Brian M. Pete Bestseller Empower your students to thrive across the curriculum. Packed with examples and tools, this practical guide prepares teachers across all grade levels and content areas to teach the most critical cognitive skills from the Common Core State Standards. 240 pages 49BCJ–BKF576 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-07-5

Collaborating for Success With the Common Core A Toolkit for Professional Learning Communities at Work

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By Kim Bailey, Chris Jakicic, and Jeanne Spiller Leverage teamwork to integrate the CCSS into your curriculum, and build on a foundational knowledge of PLCs. You’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of the shifts required to implement the standards in core content areas and find tips and strategies for strong collaborative practices. 232 pages 49BCJ–BKF556 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-72-3

Teaching Students to Think Like Scientists Strategies Aligned With Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards

By Maria C. Grant, Douglas Fisher, and Diane Lapp Using these instructional methods and lesson scenarios, teachers of all disciplines will gain the tools needed to offer students a richer, lasting understanding of science, its concepts, and its place in their lives and the global community. 232 pages 49BCJ–BKF555 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936765-38-6

School Leader’s Guide to the Common Core Achieving Results Through Rigor and Relevance

By James A. Bellanca, Robin J. Fogarty, Brian M. Pete, and Rebecca L. Stinson Implement the Common Core State Standards with downloadable reproducibles, lists of resources to support the topics affected, discussion questions, and relevant information to share with your colleagues.

Explore the background of the standards and the changes necessary to meet them. 176 pages 49BCJ–BKF597 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-45-7

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2-day workshops Fall 2014 November 3–4

Common Core for English Language Arts

San Diego, CA

The CCSS for English language arts demand that students

Spring 2015 March 9–10 April 21–22

learn to justify their responses with evidence and to read

Seattle, WA San Diego, CA

Nancy Frey

increasingly complex text. Learn what changes to curriculum and instruction are necessary to meet the standards and ensure student achievement.

Fall 2014 November 19–20

Teaching and Assessing Mathematics in a PLC at Work™

Orlando, FL

Helping students meet or exceed CCSS-M expectations Timothy D. Kanold

requires providing them with a vision and process for learning mathematics. Learn how with your teacher team, school, or district at this high-energy, dynamic PLC and CCSS-M workshop led by mathematics thought leaders.

Juli K. Dixon

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COMMON CORE Coaching Academy

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Seamlessly integrate the Common Core State Standards into your curriculum. Gain hands-on strategies for classroom, leadership, curriculum, and assessment practices that can be implemented immediately.

Features • Targeted homework is assigned after the first day of each session.

• A special Powerful Principles session for administrators will be held at the end of the first day of each session to address their leadership roles in the transformation.

• Every session will conclude with a debriefing for all attendees.

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