T he Common Core Standards require students to engage in collaborative discussions, elaborate on the points of others and clearly explain t...

On Thursday and Friday, I presented at the Superintendent’s Conference in Tinley Park, IL on Getting Your Daily Dose of the CCSS.  It was ...

On February 8th, I published a post on my experience with rekenreks.  I recently received a response from Jami Smith at the Math Learning Ce...

Are you interested in increasing the instructional rigor of the lesson you teach and the tasks that students complete?  I just posted a Dep...

I'm off school today so I'm trying to catch up on everything.  Consequently, I have posted two BLOOM with higher-level thinking pr...

I t has been crazy lately trying to get everything done.  I'm sure you feel the same way.  I was busy preparing materials to facilitate...

Recently I created an interactive focus wall for CCSS and reading in the content areas.  It combines the utilization of reading strategies...