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Authentic Student Engagement

  Sunset Ridge Elementary School is a Thinking Maps school that exemplifies the passion and belief that all students can be successful and achieve. The school’s motto is simple but very familiar to...

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Moving the Common Core Into the Classroom

If you have been in education for more than 15 minutes, you know that each year we have a special language we must use as we discuss effective instruction. As a teacher, I used to ask “So what words...

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Text Features in a Digital World

I’ve been working on the Common Core standards related to text features and I need some help. I understand text features and their importance for understanding informational text. I also understand...

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Using Thinking Maps to Analyze Text Features

I’ve been working on the Common Core standard related to text features and wanted to share some of the ideas I am developing. A major focus for 21st century learners is teaching them how to...

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Teach Students How to Think, Regardless of Standards

Whether we talk about Common Core or College and Career Readiness Standards or 21st Century Skills, the message is the same:  We in this most valuable of professions, we in education, must make some...

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Be a Part of the Solution

I have been struggling with this one for quite a while. Several weeks ago, I read some posts and articles by Barry Garelick, a fairly recent addition to the field of secondary math education. I was...

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An Amazing Opportunity in Magnolia School District, Anaheim, CA

I spent all of my 31 years in the classroom in districts with 3000 plus teachers so the thought of conducting a training for an entire district was quite mind-boggling. Through a series of...

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Information Text Score!

Hi Chris, I am a half-time fifth grade teacher in Huntington Beach, CA. I am writing to share with you that I have been implementing the Common Core informational text standards using the maps. I had...

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Using Thinking Maps to Teach Academic Vocabulary

Did you happen to catch Edutopia‘s January 2, 2014 article by Todd Finley, 8 Strategies for Teaching Academic Vocabulary? While the use of Thinking Maps is not included as one of the 8 strategies, the...

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From the Mind of a Math-Phobic Educator

In this article titled Great English Teachers Improve Students’ Math Scores, the author explains how researchers found students of good English language arts teachers had higher than expected math...

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