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1 online resource (xxiii, 261 pages) |
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NU Curriculum
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| Contents |
Dedication -- Foreword / Dan Domenech -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the authors -- Introduction: Why American schools must move toward common core state standards: -- World is flat -- Problem and the solution: education -- Can government rescue our schools? -- Section 1: Designing Competitive Curriculum For A Global Economy: -- Chapter 1: Common core state standards: what are they?: -- Common core standards: more than standards with an international flavor -- Quick trip around the world -- Moving forward -- Chapter 2: School leader's role in making the common core state standards work: -- Creating guiding ideas to implement the common core state standards: -- Guiding ideas and evidence -- Guiding to how: operationalize your guiding ideas -- Identifying the innovation -- Teaching the change -- Social and emotional literacy components of the common core state standards -- School leaders and teachers partner to help students -- Inspiring trust, creativity, transparency, and success: a framework for loose versus tight leadership -- Part 1: Building understanding about the issue and its impact on your organization -- Part 2: Moving from understanding to action |
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Section 2: Helping Communities Create A New Future: -- Chapter 3: Designing local curriculum to absorb the common core state standards in english: -- Real-world applications: -- Grades K-2: Phonological awareness (one topic) -- Grades K-2: Key ideas and details and craft and structure -- Grades 3-5: Fluency (one topic) -- Grade 5: Reading with fluency and accuracy -- Grades 6-8: Key ideas and details (one topic) -- Grades 9-10: English language arts curriculum -- Grades 11-12: Reading and writing -- Chapter 4: Designing local curriculum to absorb the common core state standards in mathematics: -- Comparison of state and common core state math standard emphasis -- Common core state math standards: -- Kindergarten common core state standard and local curriculum math standards -- Grade 1 Common core state standard and local curriculum math standards -- Grade 2 Common core state standard and local curriculum math standards -- Grade 5 Common core state standard and local curriculum math standards -- Six domains of instructional strategies for all students -- Purpose of the math common core: -- Grade 7 Common core state math standards: ratios and proportional relationships -- Grades 9-10 Common core state math standards: real number system -- Grade 10 Common core state math standards for geometry: congruence -- Grade 12 Common core state math standards for statistics: using probability to make decisions -- Chapter 5: Challenges to the implementation of rigorous common core state standards: -- Testing policies do not improve schools -- Common core state standards: opportunities for equity and excellence |
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Section 3: Helping Teachers Redefine Their Profession: -- Chapter 6: How to assess mastery of the common core curriculum state standards: -- Direct instruction -- Power of formative assessments -- Formative assessment examples from real schools -- Building successful schools -- Special education and general education -- Chapter 7: Leadership challenge: creating common understandings of the common core state standards: -- Role of school leaders: -- Envisioning excellence -- We get the results we design schools to achieve -- Vision or nightmare? -- Enter the common core state standards -- Chapter 8: Dialogue: providing opportunity so facts influence opinions: -- Creating context for the common core state standards -- Teachers need deep understanding of the common core state standards -- Identifying gaps: current versus desired reality -- Section 4: Creating Systems That Accelerate Learning For All: -- Chapter 9: Multicultural issues that teachers and school leaders must face beyond the common core state standards: -- Common core state standards lift us beyond difference -- What all teachers and school leaders need to know about multiculturalism -- Grouping and labeling students -- Building a multicultural learning community -- Chapter 10: Effective intervention in schools that improves instruction and learning: -- Creating sustainable change in struggling schools -- Leaders create the context and design for change to succeed -- Homework -- Student work and deficit assumptions -- Focus groups: -- School leaders -- Parent involvement -- Students -- Changing public mental models about school reform -- Chapter 11: Public policy: helpful and harmful -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
Overview: With the Common Core State Standards adopted by the vast majority of U.S. states, educators face the challenge of translating the standards into successful, positive change within schools. Written for school leaders, this practical guide offers a blueprint for implementing and exceeding the new standards using precisely targeted professional development. Readers will find realistic strategies supported by examples from a diverse range of schools. Topics include: Empowering teachers and staff as partners in planning for and implementing the new standards; Adapting existing curricula to meet goals for mathematics and language arts at each grade level; Designing assessments that measure mastery of the standards; Ensuring that the standards benefit learning for all students, including multicultural learners. Lead your school or district in fulfilling the promise of the Common Core State Standards and preparing students for a competitive global economy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-248) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Education -- Standards -- United States.
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Education -- Curricula -- United States
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Educational leadership -- United States
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EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
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EDUCATION -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General.
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Education -- Curricula
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Education -- Standards
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Educational leadership
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012039715 |
| ISBN |
9781452277509 |
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1452277508 |
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9781452284439 |
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1452284431 |
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9781483387949 |
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1483387941 |
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