Richard Byrne, the pretty amazing author of the blog Free Technology for Teachers, has highlighted new tools for history teachers in this post:
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Hello, fellow NWP friends: I hope you've had a wonderful start to the school year! We've had excellent responses to NIWP Common Core workshops and classes, and we look forward to digging in even deeper over the next year.
In EdWeek's free content area (no subscription needed), a recent piece discusses the early glimpses of assessment items from the two consortia formed to create assessments for the Common Core: PARRC and Smarter Balanced.
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Melissa Seiderman, a history/econ/government teachers from New York state, blogs about her teaching and history as a disciplines. has pulled together a set of useful websites for history teachers wanting to move instruction toward CCSS. Read her picks at US History Websites with the Common Core.
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Area 3 Teacher Consultant, @nicolekukral, is teaching summer school this summer, for the first time in years. This time, she writes, its not because this is her first year out of college and she's completely broke, but because she is, in her words, obsessing about the common core.
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CCSS puts a premium on the role of rich text in content area instruction. In 2009 Stanford was named West Coast partner of the largest library in the world, the Library of Congress. The Library's Teaching with Primary Sources Program connects educators with an extensive collection of digitized primary sources.
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Michael Milton, a history teacher at Burlington High School, is publishying his experiments in aligning his favorite lessons to the Common Core. He explains:
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Tim Bailey, a teacher from Salt Lake City, Utah who was the 2009 History Teacher of the Year, has published a set of CCSS aligned history lessons at the Gilder Lehman Institute of American History. At Teaching the Common Core, he summarizes his thinking about the lessons this way:
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In Trickle or Tsunami?: Getting Involved with the Common Core Standards, Daisy Martin, Director of History Education at Teachinghistory.org, introduces the CCSS to History teachers and discusses how they might want to think about them:
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I would suggest subscribing to NWP friend Fred Mindlin's daily news roundup of links and posts on the theme of digital literacy and the Common Core. I find it a wealthy trove of insight.
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Fred writes:
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