7-12 Proficiency 18 November

Content Area Standards, Indicators, and Rubric Review Members of each department have spent the spring and summer identifying content area standards, drafting indicators, and drafting rubrics for these content area graduation standards. Each department and each department member should review these closely to ensure that they describe measurable outcomes, are important enough to identify as […]

Agenda Proficiency Team Nov 4 2015

Agenda 12:30-1:00  Review and catch up.  Discuss meetings going forward 1:00-2:30  Review Protocol for Department work. 2:30-3:00  Next steps.  Issues to address. Language in rubric (deficiency vs. proficiency) Benchmarked rubrics Draft Content Area Standards Science NotesSci.Dept.Proficiency1-7 Mathematics MathGraduationStandardsandIndicators MathematicsPracticesRubric AlgebraRubric ProbabilityandStatisticsRubricforIndicators RubricforFunctionIndicators NumbersandQuantityRubric GeometryRubricforIndicators ELA ELA Reading Comprehension ELA Speaking: Performance ELA Speaking: Presentation ELA […]

Free Sources for Common Core Aligned Content

Browse the following sites These resources were recently highlighted in a document from a website I follow The School Improvement Network.  They are well designed sites, with a wealth of common core aligned materials.  Any of these may take a while to fully explore, but each has a search bar and organization that allow you […]

NGSS Learning Guide

The NGSS EQuIP Professional Learning Facilitator’s Guide is a series of 10 modules that were designed to provide guidance on building the capacity of educators and education leaders to use the EQuIP Rubric for Science. Completing this professional learning will provide science educators and education leaders with the processes and procedures necessary to use the EQuIP Rubric […]

Proficiency Materials for Summer

Summer Proficiency Work Hi all.  Thank you for your willingness to continue the development of our Proficiency System.  I will use this post to collect resources and your work.  I will organize it by content area.  The beginning will be general resources that may apply to all departments.  I will pin it to the first […]

Homework in a standards’ based classroom

Food for Thought I am sharing a document from  @cvulearns (Emily Rinkema and Stan Williams, erinkema@cvuhs.org and swilliams@cvuhs.org“).  It was shared with me by Craig Kesselheim at Great Schools Partnership and by Christine Anderson-Morehouse, the Midcoast Superintendents’ professional development coordinator. I know some schools have begun to address their homework policies and this document pulls together a few important […]