The nonprofit organization Common Core includes more than 100 arts-infused activities in a set of detailed “curriculum maps” for the English/language arts standards that it created to help ...

Using Visual Storytelling to Teach Common Core ELA and Math. By Christopher Piehler; 08/17/15; Stacie Isenberg is the technology integration coach at Blairsville-Saltsburg School District (PA), which ...

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This week, the National Coalition for Core Arts Standards released the final version of its voluntary national standards in dance, media arts, music, theater, and visual arts—and one coalition ...

Updated April 24 with additional information. Lesson plans and teacher training programs at the K-12 level aren’t the only things being updated to reflect the new Common Core State Standards. The ...

Standards based visual instructional tools enable visual learning and provide the ready-made resource needed to master the quantity and rigor of Common Core. They can be used in many ways to tailor ...

Common Core State Standards, a grade-by-grade set of requirements for what elementary and secondary school children should know in each grade in math and English language arts (ELA), have been said to ...

CARE Trains Teachers in Arts for the New Common Core Curriculum About 20 teachers from school districts across San Diego County sit at tables in a rehearsal studio at the La Jolla Playhouse. Half ...

The Common Core literacy standards were intended to shift instruction toward building knowledge and away from illusory reading comprehension “skills.” But many teachers have stuck with ...

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There has to be more to school than this. Critics of the Common Core initiative have long argued that it’s not just what the standards focus on, but what they don’t focus on, that has damaged ...