common core

More About Habits of Mind

By c4kadmin | July 28, 2020 |

Habits of the Mind can be non-cognitive skills that young people need to develop if they are to grow up to be effective and successful as adults. Habits of the Mind provide a foundation for the Common Core and can be developed by all youth. Just like you need to exercise to strengthen your physical…

Implementation of Common Core—Reading Informational Text

By c4kadmin | July 20, 2020 |

One of the key requirements of the Common Core State Standards is that at least 50% of the reading youth do in school is informational text. Historically, reading in school has been stories, novels, poetry, and plays and other forms of narrative text, yet in the “real world” much of the reading we do is…