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I've been reading two books simultaneously!   The first is   Teaching Students to Read Like Detectives,   by Fisher, Frey and Lapp and...

Argument writing is a key area of focus in the CCSS.  The CCSS routinely expects students to draw evidence from texts to produce clear and...

I was very hesitant to open an email from Marianne at Teach to be Happy  because I figured it was a spam or an April Fool's Day joke. ...

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...