I recently facilitated a School Improvement Day for a friend that’s a principal of a K-6 building with gen ed, dual language and gifted cla...

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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...

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