To fully prepare K-12 students for life and career, connect with your community! A successful community-based learning program is a triple win-for students, schools, and the entire community. Curriculum becomes more meaningful and relevant, students are more engaged, and schools and districts benefit from new advocates. Authors Prast and Viegut show how to move beyond guest speakers and field trips to creating a vibrant program that promotes academic achievement and future career skills. In this second acclaimed book in The Clarity Series, readers will learn how to Forge rewarding partnerships with local partners, from major employers to small businesses and community groups Implement a high-quality, sustainable initiative that bridges disciplines Recognize and overcome barriers to effectiveness Apply best practices from today's most-effective programs Turn to this helpful guide to tap the limitless opportunities and potential offered by community-based learning. "Community-based learning, as described in this series, just might be the missing piece we are looking for on our competency-based, personalized learning quest for our students. If we can bring this work together-if we can connect them to their passion (personalize), move them along when they are ready (competency-based) and ground them in real life experience (community-based), perhaps we can truly give them the roots and the wings we have only been theorizing about for fifty years." -Dr. Sandra Dop, Program Consultant Iowa Department of Education
This title is designed to institutionalize a "common engagement literacy" for schools and districts to use in creating a culture of "passionate learners."
Professional Learning that Promotes Success for All
Although hundreds of designs and protocols for professional learning have been developed, few have been as widely embraced and studied as the CASL (Collaborative Analysis of Student Work), model developed by authors Colton, Langer, and Goff. The Collaborative Analysis of Student Work is a comprehensive guide to implementing a research-based approach to professional learning that drives educator effectiveness and promotes learning for every student. This new edition will be thoroughly updated with special focus on the following: - how to use the CASL inquiry process to help teachers clarify what it looks like when students reach complex academic standards such as the Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards - use of CASL in teacher evaluation -use of the CASL inquiry process helps teachers to specify and define their professional learning goals -how school leaders can play pivotal roles in successful implement of CASL -how CASL can specifically benefit Culturally and Linguistically Diverse learners -significant updates to facilitation coverage.
Providing a model for how to learn from successes-instead of failures-The Collective Wisdom of Practice introduces an assets-based approach to designing and implementing professional learning and growth.
In this follow-up to her Common Core Companion, Grades 3-5, Leslie Blauman provides an ample supply of connected lessons you can use as booster shots when students need a good dose of integrated reading and writing instruction. The 50+ lessons are divided into five learning sequences that span the ELA standards, bringing a Monday-through-Friday clarity to a process that often overwhelms teachers and coaches alike.
You can find hundreds of literacy lessons in hundreds of places-but none of them will do for students what the ones in this book do. What's the magic bullet? Potent integration. Divided into five weeklong learning sequences, the 50 lessons span the ELA standards, bringing a Monday-through-Friday clarity to the sometimes mysterious process of skill-building through demonstrations and practice. Follow each sequence and week by week, you'll build the instructional potency to help students achieve a year's worth of growth as you integrate: Writing Narratives with Identifying Sensory Words in Text Research with Identifying Topic and Details Opinion Writing with Close Reading for Text Evidence Comparing and Contrasting with Publishing Using Digital Tools Informative Writing with Use of Text Features Each of the 50 lessons is eminently dippable. But if you want to do more extended instructional planning, there are lots of additional tools-including lists of mentor texts, and If/Then and Extending-the-Work charts-within the book and on the companion website: www.corwin.com/commoncorecompanion.
This book explains what the standards say, what they mean, and how to teach them. The book is organized by the Anchor Standards in the following categories: Reading Literature Informational Text Foundational Reading Skills (This is a departure from the 6-12 standards that we will have to consider in design/format) Writing Speaking and Listening Language
That version of the 6-8 standards you wish you had Don't spend another minute poring over the standards. Jim Burke has already done the hard work for you with this roadmap of what each standard says, what each standard means, and how precisely to put that standard into practice across English Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects. Jim clearly lays out: Grades 6-8 standards side by side with key distinctions Different content-area versions of each standard Explanations of each standard, with student prompts Content to cover, lesson ideas, and instructional techniques Glossary and adaptations for ELL students
That version of the 9-12 standards you wish you had If you're a high school teacher, no need to despair. Jim Burke has created a Common Core Companion for you, too. This time positioning the grades 9-10 standards alongside 11-12, it's every bit the roadmap to what each standard says, what each standard means, and how to put that standard into practice across subjects. Jim clearly lays out: - Key distinctions across grade levels - Different content-area versions of each standard - Explanations of each standard, with student prompts - Content to cover, lesson ideas, and instructional techniques - Glossary and adaptations for ELL students
