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Month: November 2013

How We’re Building PARCC: ELA and Literacy

Posted on November 25, 2013 by Lior Klirs

I recently spent a week in Orlando, but I didn’t hobnob with cartoon animals or traverse any kingdoms, magical or otherwise. In fact, the only mouse ears I saw were in the airport gift shop.  Instead, I spent five days with educators from across the country — including fellow Tennesseans — reviewing test items for…

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Lessons Learned from Tennessee’s Education Milestone

Posted on November 18, 2013 by Jamie Woodson

Just a few years ago, Tennessee embarked on an ambitious plan to better prepare students for the future.  Tennesseans took a hard look at student proficiency and concluded that continuing to accept mediocre academic performance was a disservice to our students. When SCORE was launched in 2009, we identified a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” for unprecedented growth…

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A+ for New Teacher Common Core Implementation

Posted on November 14, 2013 by Elana Cole

At 9:00 a.m. on a Monday morning, I find myself walking into a South Memphis classroom taught by a second-year middle school English teacher who is determined to “make a difference in the lives of children.” My initial thought was that within the fourth week of a new school year, I would hardly see any…

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Data Tell Fuller Story of Tennessee’s NAEP Performance

Posted on November 13, 2013 by Emily Carter

Tennessee set an ambitious goal in 2009 for our education system to be the fastest-improving among all states. The results are in: Tennessee students in fourth and eighth grade surpassed their peers across the country in overall gains on national math and reading tests, making Tennessee the fastest-improving state in the nation. Not only did…

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The Best Day of My Professional Life

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Hannah Parker

November 7 was maybe the best day of my professional life, and I started not to write about it. I was going to play it cool, I wasn’t going to “geek out”, and I certainly wasn’t going to expend my own “personal social media capital” to talk about it. So much for that.

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