EXPAND CORE CURRICULUM PROGRESS WITH CLEAR THINKING  

RESEARCH-BASED STRUCTURES FOR LEARNING PROGRESS

Common Core Literacy and Content Unit and Lesson Planners 

Guide and Assess Nonfiction Reading/Thinking\Writing     

Nonfiction Reading Resources

Graphic Organizers to Guide and Assess Nonfiction Reading

Readings with Skills-Focused Questions 

One-Page Passages to Apply Reading Skills  

Fiction          Nonfiction    Persuasive Speeches, Poems and Songs

Use Graphic Organizers to Guide Thinking and Assess Learning

Graphic organizers challenge students to think clearly--to develop and support ideas with information given and inferred.

"The problem of education is to enable the learner to see the wood by means of the trees."
                Alfred North Whitehead, The Aims of Education

	Develop Academic Vocabulary
	Guide Thinking with Levels of Questions
	Guide Reading -- Fiction and Nonfiction
	Poems, Proverbs and Songs
	Use Graphic Organizers to Guide and Assess
	Guide and Assess Science Learning   To access the Next Generation Science Standards, released 5/11/12, click here.
	Guide and Assess Social Studies Learning                  Teach Chicago
	Guide and Assess Math Progress
	Write Well  Write what you learn to learn more.

Use Art to Expand Learning  Art is the Idea Bridge--Text to Art, Art to Text--envisioning ideas.      "Art is the representation, science the explanation, of the same reality."  Herbert Read

Terra Teacher Lab  Connect American art and the core curriculum.

Museum Connections     Bilingual Resources    High School Resources  

 Election Connections: Presidential Election Reading/Writing Activity Guides

Resources to Connect Common Core Standards and Your Curriculum

Fourth Quarter Weekly Priorities

Next Grade Prep Priorities K-8 Specifications to Prepare to Succeed in the Next Grade

  CPS Learning Targets    EXPLORE Requirements and Resources

Plan Clear Focused Lessons   

ASPIRE: Differentiate to Make the Difference Resources to apply principles of special education to expand learning Network PD Resources Fullerton     Rock Island

Creative Content Poetry by         John P. Curtin, 8/29/1967–4/26/2012

INVOLVE PARENTS

Act: Resources to Learn at Home, in the Community and City

Connect: Chicago Resources for Learning

Expand: Internet Resources

SCHOOL LEADERSHIP

Blueprints and guides emphasizing the five fundamentals of school progress.

Collaborative Leadership Resources

Resources to Increase Progress through Family and Community Involvement

Service Learning

School Progress Planning Tools

Individual School Resources   Living Word  Marconi 

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