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              Making the Common Core More Common...In Our Classrooms
            
			            By Jessica Olamit on April 25, 2013        
 
I'm not sure what is happening at your schools around the shift to Common Core Standards (CCS), but I do know that it is a BIG topic at my school right now.        	
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              We’re Engaged! or 3 Must-Do Strategies to Move from Compliance to Engagement
            
			            By Melissa Camilleri on April 15, 2013        
 
I guarantee, if you’re anything like me, you’ve been there before. Maybe it was during your undergrad. Maybe during your credential program. Maybe it’s been at (dare I say it?) a professional development seminar. You’re sitting there watching a bunch of projected slides, with a bunch of handouts in front of you. You nod when you’re supposed to.        	
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              A Thought Provoking Journal Entry
            
			            By Jonathan LeMaster on April 1, 2013        
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Last year, my senior AVID students and I researched social classes in America. We read five articles and wrote four papers. The last paper was a synthesis essay.
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              Interactive Sentence Types
            
			            By Jonathan LeMaster on March 20, 2013        
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Teaching grammar can be a painful process and is usually met with great resistance from students. When I mention the word grammar or ask my students to take out their grammar books, I hear: "Ah man..."; "What? Do we have to?"; "Psshhhh"; and occasionally I get "Can we watch a movie instead?" This last request is my favorite.        	
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              Evaluating the Credibility of Websites
            
			            By Jessica Olamit on March 17, 2013        
 
My 8th graders are in the middle of a research paper on Westward Movement. For this assignment students are required to use at least three sources: one print source, one web based source, and a third of their choice. Every year we deal with the issue of students wanting to use sites like Wikipedia, About.com, and Ask.com as cited sources.        	
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