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Back to School Family Guide - Grade 1

This guide is meant to support families and students academically in literacy and math. Of course, students will be learning other subjects too, but literacy and math are the building blocks for everything else.

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Elementary (K − 6)

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May 09, 2025

John Wray Common Core Teaching Practices Part 4

John Wray discusses using math practice cards, tools, and strategies to promote deeper mathematics learning school-wide. He shows how to use rubrics to assess which math practices evolve from students’ work and how we can identify those practices.

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None

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September 03, 2025

Four Effective Mathematics Practices: Adaptations for All Learning Environments

Bradley Witzel, Ph.D., is an award winning K-18 teacher and the Adelaide Worth Daniels Distinguished Professor of Education at Western Carolina University. As a classroom teacher, and before that as a paraeducator, he worked in multiple settings teaching mainly math and science to high achieving ...

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All Ages

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September 03, 2025

An Administrator's Guide and Checklist To: ESSA- Every Student Succeeds Act- Parent and Family Engagement.

An Administrator’s Checklist to ESSA-Parent and Family Involvement” identifies approximately twenty five requirements relating to parent and family engagement across the federal title programs: Title I, Part A; Title I, Part C (migrant); Title III, Part A (EL); Title IX (McKinney-Vento). We hope ...

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All Ages

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May 09, 2025

Chaining

Chaining DefinitionChaining is an instructional strategy grounded in applied behavior analysis (ABA) theory. Chaining is based on task analysis, in which individual steps are recognized as requirements for task mastery.Chaining breaks a task down into small steps and then teaches each step within...

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All Ages

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February 06, 2025

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