Four Ways MAP or MPG Interim Assessments Can Support the Transition to the Common Core 1.23.14 Matt Hicks Many school districts across the country use our interim assessment MAP®, or Measures of Academic Progress® and... More
Academic Vocabulary: Semantics Matter 12.16.13 Kathy Dyer When I worked with a diverse student population I was fortunate to learn SIOP (Sheltered Instruction Observation... More
Interim Assessments’ Role in Showing Common Core Success 12.4.13 Kelly Goodrich Rigorous, inspiring, exciting, and challenging are all accurate descriptions of the Common Core State Standards. And... More
Let the Common Core State Standards be Common 10.25.13 Kelly Goodrich They say politics makes for strange bedfellows. It seems the Common Core State Standards do as well. The initiative was... More
Teacher Voices in the CCSS Conversation 10.14.13 John Wood The implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) has focused the conversation on the standards in a... More
Higher-Order Questions, Rigor, and Meeting the Common Core State Standards 10.11.13 Kathy Dyer Barbara Blackburn, on her website, has a great definition of "rigor" that I think most educators can get behind, and... More
Common Core Assessments – Measuring the Intangible 9.13.13 John Wood Recently in the New York Times, Stanley Fish wrote a piece titled The Two Cultures of Educational Reform. Though his... More
Common Core State Standards: What we can Learn from Massachusetts 9.2.13 John Wood Massachusetts today has some of the best test scores in the country. When Massachusetts is considered by itself in... More
Teacher Professional Development: 5 Formative Assessment Fundamentals for Common Core Success 8.2.13 Kathy Dyer ... More
Multiple choice assessments are good enough for nuclear power, why not education? 7.17.13 Andrew Hegedus As the concluding post to a four-part series on how assessments can be well-aligned to state or common core standards,... More
Common Core State Standards – What’s the Controversy? 7.1.13 John Wood We’ve blogged fairly extensively on the Common Core State Standards over the last several months and generally favor... More
AES and Making Sense in the Common Core State Standards World 6.17.13 John Wood Those who speak and write against automated essay scoring (AES) often create a false dichotomy that the scoring must be... More
