Elementary School (K-5) – Page 26 – Center for Standards, Assessment, and Accountability

The Implications of Deeper Learning for Adolescent Immigrants and English Language Learners

From the introduction: “I begin… by describing the current educational status of the nation’s ELLs and immigrant students. I go on to describe the ways in which their skills have been denigrated, and I consider a number of ways in which linguistic and cultural diversity and immigrant experiences might be reframed as valuable resources for deeper […]

Video: Whole Class Instruction in Opinion Writing: Teaching for Transfer as Students Move Between Persuasive Speeches and Petitions 3-5

This is a video of elementary school writing instruction aligned to college and career ready standards. The teacher has students utilize what they learned when they previously created persuasive speeches to now write different kinds of opinion pieces. The teacher and students together analyze a written petition to Lego for author’s “moves” that they recognize and can use […]

How Students Thrive: Positive Youth Development in Practice

The paper outlines five, research-based tenets that underlie schools that can support positive youth development and includes tools that can help educators identify positive youth development practices that are associated with each tenet. The five tenets are: Young people need caring, trusting, and supportive relationships with adults and with other young people. Young people respond to […]

Measuring the Monitoring Progress K-12 STEM Education Indicators: A Road Map

This roadmap provides information for measuring and reporting on the 14 STEM Education Indicators as described by the National Research Council’s report on monitoring successful science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) K-12 programs. SRI’s roadmap summarizes available data on each indicator and proposes more detailed operational definitions, as well as actions and future work needed […]

Performance Assessment Resource Bank

Performance assessments require students to construct an original response rather than bubbling or filling in a correct answer. This website provides teachers, leaders, and policymakers with high-quality, expert-reviewed performance tasks, tools, and resources aligned to college and career ready standards in K-12 math, ELA, science, and history/social studies. In addition, this website includes tools and […]

Rethinking How Students Succeed

Noncognitive skills initiatives hold promise for making students more successful. Noncognitive skills, the term used in this article, are related to social and emotional learning (SEL) and academic mindsets; they encompass academic attitudes and behaviors like self-awareness, self-control, persistence, social awareness, and relationship development. Recent work in noncognitve skills with students, teachers, and schools reveal that these sets […]

Grade Level: Elementary School (K-5)

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