Uncommon Core
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Uncommon Core: Where the Authors of the Standards Go Wrong About Instruction-and How You Can Get It Right
By Deborah Appleman, Michael W. Smith, Jeffrey D. WilhelmKaren, an elementary school principal, had always been involved in politics at the local level in a behind-the-scenes way. She was very effective at encouraging people not to accept how things were but always to try to make things ...
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Uncommon Core: Where the Authors of the Standards Go Wrong About Instruction-and How You Can Get It Right
By Deborah Appleman, Michael W. Smith, Jeffrey D. WilhelmSmith, Appleman, and Wilhelm counter with teaching suggestions that are true to the research and true to our students, including how: Reader-based approaches can complement text-based ones Prereading activities can help students meet the ...
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Uncommon Core
By Deborah Appleman, Michael W. Smith, Jeffrey D. WilhelmThis book identifies three important areas in which Coleman's instructional suggestions are particularly problematic: in their narrow focus on meaning at the expense of significance, in their focus on individual texts, and in their tendency ...
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Uncommon Core: 25 Ways to Help Your Child Succeed in a Cookie Cutter Educational System
By Pauline HawkinsFrom her perspective as both a teacher and a parent, education reformer Pauline Hawkins offers 25 ways that parents can help their children succeed in an educational system that too often confused equality with sameness, and refuses to ...
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Uncommon Core: Contemporary Poems for Learning and Living
A year ago students from Red Beard Press editorial board at the Neutral Zone decided they weren't seeing enough contemporary poetry in their high school classrooms so they decided to...