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Greater Boston DSAC Literacy Blog: January 2015
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Greater Boston DSAC Literacy Blog. Literacy Tips and Information for the Greater Boston Region. Wednesday, January 28, 2015. The Latest and Greatest from PARCC. Even though we are still anxiously awaiting the release of the ELA end of the year (EOY) assessment, PARCC has been busy releasing and updating current online functions. With the performance based test right around the corner here is the latest and greatest from PARCC. Identifying Texts Worth Reading. Connecting Texts to ELA Standards. The confer...
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Greater Boston DSAC Literacy Blog: July 2015
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Greater Boston DSAC Literacy Blog. Literacy Tips and Information for the Greater Boston Region. Tuesday, July 14, 2015. PARCC Bias and Sensistivity Review and PARCC on NPR. Additionally, last week NPR's Claudio Sanchez reported on the how PARCC is scored, taking a deeper look into the scoring facility. To hear about the process and from voices of those scoring, click here. Tuesday, July 7, 2015. Summer Opportunities Available through 5DP. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). GB DSAC Data Blog. GB DSAC Math Blog.
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Greater Boston DSAC Literacy Blog: Learning Targets and Success Criteria
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Greater Boston DSAC Literacy Blog. Literacy Tips and Information for the Greater Boston Region. Friday, June 19, 2015. Learning Targets and Success Criteria. Research has proven that providing students with clear learning goals help students to learn better (Seidel, Rimmele, and Prenzel, 2005). In fact according to two studies, (Black, Harrison, Lee, Marshall and Wiliam, 2004 and Moss, Brookhart and Long, 2011), ". Learning Targets on Parade. A learning target should. 4 Be embodied in a performance of un...
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Greater Boston DSAC Literacy Blog: March 2015
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Greater Boston DSAC Literacy Blog. Literacy Tips and Information for the Greater Boston Region. Tuesday, March 31, 2015. A New Way to Share. Recently, I was able to attend Boston Public School's K2 Focus Curriculum training. They take the idea of the sharing time, and shift it in a creative and effective way, which makes learning, problem and revision a whole group process, packaged into what they refer to as Thinking and Feedback. BPS describes Thinking and Feedback as a. During independent working time...
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Greater Boston DSAC Literacy Blog: October 2014
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Greater Boston DSAC Literacy Blog. Literacy Tips and Information for the Greater Boston Region. Tuesday, October 28, 2014. Think of it as the Facebook for educators and students. Edmodo. Is a free resource offering teacher’s lessons, PD and other classroom materials aligned to the common core standards. This site developed out of the idea for educational professionals to share Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK), with each other throughout the country. LearnZillion is directly linked to Edm...Sick and ti...
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Greater Boston DSAC Data: May 2015
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Greater Boston DSAC Data. Supporting school districts in the Greater Boston area in collaborative inquiry and data use. Tuesday, May 26, 2015. Important Changes to the PARCC Test Design. On May 20, 2015 the PARCC governing board (made up of state education commissioners and superintendents) voted to:. Reduce the testing time for students. By about 90 minutes overall (60 minutes in mathematics; 30 minutes in English language arts) and create more uniformity of test unit times. Consolidate the two windows.
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Greater Boston DSAC Data: December 2013
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Greater Boston DSAC Data. Supporting school districts in the Greater Boston area in collaborative inquiry and data use. Friday, December 6, 2013. Edwin is the man.". When it rains, it pours…at least with the GBDSAC Data blog this week. But when I hear that “Edwin is the man” I can’t resist. This quote comes from a blog post. From The Data Quality Campaign (DQC). DQC is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, national advocacy organization based in Washington, DC, and they sing the praises of Edwin. At this point, acce...
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Greater Boston DSAC Data: April 2015
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Greater Boston DSAC Data. Supporting school districts in the Greater Boston area in collaborative inquiry and data use. Monday, April 27, 2015. Post-secondary Attendance and Persistence. As seniors receive acceptance letters from colleges and universities, high schools across the state are also gaining valuable data, including: rates of students applying to college, and rates of students gaining acceptance and enrolling in two and four year postsecondary institutions. Wednesday, April 22, 2015. When deve...
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Greater Boston DSAC Data: New Edwin Reports
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Greater Boston DSAC Data. Supporting school districts in the Greater Boston area in collaborative inquiry and data use. Thursday, June 18, 2015. Available on District and School – Public tab Enrollment and Indicators. ELL Longitudinal Outcomes (EL324),. Disciplinary Removal Analysis (SD320),. Students with IEPs Comparison (SP323). Available on District and School – Public tab Postsecondary Readiness and Success. CVTE Graduate Pathway Summary: MA Public Postsecondary (CR321). School and District Profiles.
