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Smart moves: Powering up the brain with physical activity
By Marcus Conyers and Donna Wilson Learning is not just a cognitive function. Thinking, feeling, and physicality all come together to develop new knowledge and skills. Active play and regular physical...
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The Common Core’s first casualty: Playful learning
By Jill Bowdon The Common Core’s higher standards need not be met by pressuring teachers to discard proven playful learning strategies in favor of procedural pedagogies. Playful learning may sound...
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Supporting classroom instruction: The Textbook Navigator/Journal
By Leland S. Cogan, Nathan Burroughs, and William H. Schmidt Researchers have developed a tool to help teachers implement the Common Core by letting standards, not textbooks, guide their instruction....
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What should Common Core assessments measure?
By Kayla Chandler, Nicholas Fortune, Jennifer N. Lovett, and Jimmy Scherrer The new math standards ask for more than content memorization and application. They require math literacy and new assessments...
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Taking a comprehensive approach to Common Core roll out
By Amy Illingworth South Bay Union School District in Southern California takes takes a comprehensive approach to the implementation of Common Core standards by supporting teachers and coaches with...
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Examining text complexity in the early grades
Choosing texts for early-grade students is critical if educators hope to reach the Common Core goal of improving reading skills. By Jill Fitzgerald, Jeff Elmore, Elfrieda H. Hiebert, Heather H. Koons,...
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Information is a Common Core dish best served first
Engage parents with information about the Common Core that dispels the myths and helps to keep students interested. By Temple A. Walkowiak “I can’t help my child with this ‘new’ math!” “That’s not the...
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Making early math education work for all children
Prekindergarten teachers lay the foundation for later success in mathematics when they attend to the concepts that young children can and should learn. By Karen C. Fuson, Douglas H. Clements, and Julie...
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Goldilocks Discourse — math scaffolding that’s just right
The Common Core places new requirements for mathematics literacy and those call for instructors to do neither too much nor too little scaffolding to acquire mathematical practices. By Rachel Dale and...
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A teaching makeover improves learning for diverse students
Early-grade teachers broadened their views of students’ skills knowledge, and culture to improve their teaching and advance student learning. By Kristina J. Doubet, Jessica A. Hockett, and Catherine M....
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Improve math teaching with incremental improvements
The education world has a bent toward large-scale reform. But that almost never works the way it should. Perhaps it’s better to ask teachers to make more modest changes to their current practices. By...
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Schooling leaders on the Common Core
Student success on tougher assessments from the Common Core and rigorous mathematics standards requires school leaders to have a firm grasp of those standards of the instruction needed to prepare...
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Math and ELA meet at the Common Core
The Common Core’s math and English language arts standards have more in common than you might think. By Nancy S. Gardner and Nicole Smith Math and English language arts. Match.com would never put these...
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Unpacking standards to improve instruction
Ensuring that teachers understand what hides inside each standard is a first and crucial step to helping students master each standard. By Michael Schrimpf My wife and I have very different ideas about...
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Got voice?
We cannot teach writing effectively without nurturing students’ voice in their writing. By Leslie Laud Why don’t the Common Core State Standards use the term voice in writing standards? Common Core...
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Teacher preparation key to Common Core success
University supervisors are often overlooked, underprepared, and on the outskirts of teacher preparation, but they provide an important link in helping improve mathematics teaching and learning. By...
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The power of the pen — in the hand of a math teacher
Disappointed with curricula and materials, a math teacher in rural, upstate New York keeps asking questions until she is part of the team writing curricula for the entire state. By Saffron VanGalder...
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Teachers collaborate across state lines to design high-quality units
By Ash Vasudeva and Amy Slamp Common Core and Literacy Design Collaborative tools provide the foundation for strengthening teaching and learning. With states and districts implementing new academic...
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Create crosswalks to bridge formal and informal learning experiences
By Meg Gravil and Katherine Reynolds Collaboration among formal and informal educators yields rich, standards-focused early learning. Children’s experiences outside formal classroom settings...
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Team work boosts student learning and professional community
By Thomas M. Van Soelen A team of kindergarten teachers in rural Georgia dig deeply into student work and standards to build a common understanding of writing expectations. As the kindergarten team...
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