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@kvandawalker @MichaelPetrilli @smarick My main point was ccss having positive effect. I saw no evidence of "developmentally inappropriate"
Greg McVerry
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@kvandawalker @MichaelPetrilli @smarick Some schools resorted to paying kids to take PARCC and they got a bonus if they score proficient.
Greg McVerry
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@kvandawalker @MichaelPetrilli @smarick NJASKscience and ANET came right after PARCC while almost every kid in elem DRAed. Plus phonics test
Greg McVerry
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@kvandawalker @MichaelPetrilli @smarick SATs not used for accountability but ACT/SAT only exams impact stdts. May a month of constant test.
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So close to Congress actually doing something by doing nothing. End government spying on citizens. Stop Patriot Act. #PardonSnowden #HERO
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Join #clmooc all the brains do it. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4bnEbX-nqloVlA4bDJwd2kxbFE/edit?usp=docslist_api
Greg McVerry
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@normmacdonald Yep so much for the recollection
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2-0 Lighting. Rangers in trouble
Greg McVerry
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@cogdog @laura_ritchie @Galimotion @GoogleGuacamole @mhawksey I think we used to call it Instructional Design.
Greg McVerry
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@cogdog @laura_ritchie @Galimotion @GoogleGuacamole I agree with @mhawksey LMS creep occurs regardless of tool selected.
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@MichaelPetrilli @smarick It isnt standards. They are good its accountability. In one month PARCC, NJASK, ANET, DRA, SATs, now finals
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@MichaelPetrilli @smarick spent last month on the ground in urban schools in New Jersey, Common Core is working, well Core Knowledge anyway
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@MichaelPetrilli @smarick Similar to folks saying those against accountability are only for "the status quo"
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#MozLove for Tanner | Emma Irwin http://tiptoes.ca/mozlove-for-tanner/ #teachtheweb
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@Ebonyteach Me personally think leveling should end once basic decoding skills mastered. Its pseudo-science bullshit with no evidence
Greg McVerry
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@Ebonyteach For me Agency is a forward trajectory rooted in the past. A sense of knowing you shape the world that tries so hard to shape you
Greg McVerry
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@Ebonyteach I agree. This is where I look to to @diglitalvermann on relevance and @AlfredTatum on trajectories through histories
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@Ebonyteach In terms of assessment my other thought recently has been a cost benefit analysis of the extra variance we can squeak out.
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@Ebonyteach I have preservice tchrs do an autobiography of a reader, twenty years later many still carry scars of being leveled in K-2.
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@Ebonyteach Then again most of these models start sorting kids very early into "leveled books"
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