What might be the most important “back to school” or “opening day” message for the beginning of school? Positive Relationships. These five practices that teachers can use on day one will make learning possible for the rest of the year. Given all of the APPR and Common Core work that’s got everyone occupied, we’ll need to be more deliberate than ever about relationships.
In this excerpt of a longer talk, Sir Ken Robinson tells us how teachers are like gardeners. In a way, he addresses NYS Teaching Standards I and II!
SED has prepared a guide to interpreting growth scores for teachers and principals.
Here’s more information from PARCC – this time some sample items and tasks.
Trying to do a better job with academic vocabulary? Here’s a great resource (including a word list, suffixes, prefixes, and more).
NYSED has placed their first examples of their optional curriculum maps at engageny. The application and interpretation of these is still emerging, so use caution. It is good to be aware of them, though.
The ASCD e-book professional library is provided by Instructional Support Services for the BOCES and all 23 component districts. You (and every educator in the whole OCM BOCES region) have complete access at no additional charge. Not only does it include the ASCD collection, many ISTE titles are included, too. Note: Some users will have to have first opened the ASCD collection on their computer in order to access the books through shortcuts. If prompted for a password, use “ocmboces”
