Supporting Students in a time of Core Standards: English Language Arts Grades 9-12 by Sarah Brown Wessling with Danielle Lillge and Crystal VanKooten is a 2011release from NCTE. The authors created a text that demonstrates how to incorporate the Common Core Standards while remaining student-centered. The text is presented in three sections. The first provides an overview of the Common Core State Standards which illustrates the key shifts needed to move from previous standards to the CCSS. The second section [...]
Do you know who Brad Pitt is married to? Do you know the famous celebrity couple who recently got divorced? Do you know which celebrities are excepting their first child? Maybe you do, but I do not, and I do not bother paying any attention. However, I do pay attention to one type of celebrity…writing gurus in education. So, you can imagine my thrill when I met a writing guru a few weeks back. I, Kari Commare, was able to [...]
Have you ever read a book and felt as if the author is talking just to you? If so, you know how I felt when I picked up my copy of 10 Things (Stenhouse, 2011). Anderson has a way of taking concepts and making them attainable and practical. One of the things I loved about this book is that each of the ten things has its own chapter. Within the chapter, Jeff breaks down WHAT the item is as well [...]