Curriculum & Instruction Department in the Amazing Clovis Unified School District

Joined November 2016
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Try something new this week...add a little movement to your lesson and see what learning sticks! cultofpedagogy.com/movement/

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Need help revising your rubrics? Learn 5 steps to making your rubrics more powerful in this 40 minute Podcast from Cult of Pedagogy. It really connects to John Hattie's work and the shifts we are making towards student centered learning. cultofpedagogy.com/rubric-re…

Math Fluency Activities achievethecore.org/page/2948…

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We've waited for so long, and it's finally here! The Coherence Map from @achievethecore now includes high school standards! Teachers, get great practice tasks by standard, see what related learning happened in earlier... facebook.com/CICUSD/posts/12…

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Here's a really helpful resource that includes both the how and why of instructional moves to support discourse. Check out the Doing and Talking Mathematics and Doing and Talking Science Teacher's Guides attached here:... stem4els.wceruw.org/resource…

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Interesting article on how our students are processing text different than from how we did as students. We always need to keep our students' learning styles in mind. corwin-connect.com/2019/01/a…

Want to learn more about how to use the ELD piece in Benchmark? Join Brittany Cufaude this Saturday at 5:00. Free for those who are members of the Joyful Classrooms Community Facebook page. facebook.com/CICUSD/posts/11…

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Today Demonstration Summer Academy moves over to Tarpey, where we are observing small group instruction in 5th and 3rd grade.
Session 2 of Demonstration Summer Academy is this week at Boris and Tarpey. This week we’ll be doing a deeper dive into the Benchmark curriculum.