The Common Core brings many new opportunities and challenges to teachers, and nowhere is that more evident than in the planning process.  This workshop will give you real-world examples of teachers working with colleagues to link instruction with the Common Core, and take you step-by-step through the process of connecting assessments and lesson planning.

Questions answered during the workshop will include:

What are the key instruction and assessment shifts fostered by the Common Core?

How does lesson planning change when linked to the Common Core?

What planning tools and templates are most helpful for teachers?

How can daily, weekly, and long-term formative assessments in classrooms be used to enhance instruction?

This workshop will include video and print case studies of teachers from diverse schools implementing the Common Core in their classrooms, and working with colleagues to ensure continuity within and across grade levels.  You'll leave with a new knowledge base about the Common Core, as well as many practical tools for planning. You can preview footage from the companion DVD given to participants in the player below:

Clare Landrigan and Tammy Mulligan met fourteen years ago and knew right away they were a match made in professional heaven. They taught together at a laboratory school at Tufts University in Boston and moved on to work as curriculum coordinators at a large public school district. They realized they loved teaching adults and having dialogues with other practitioners. In their current consultation work, they work with a half dozen districts in New England on long-term assessment and curriculum develop projects, building internal expertise and collaboration at each site. They are the authors of the book Assessment: Finding the Stories of Our Students (forthcoming from Stenhouse Publishers).

Testimonials from previous Choice Literacy workshops led by Clare Landrigan and Tammy Mulligan:

This is the highest quality of presenters - the day is packed with information to take immediately back to the classroom. There is a true appreciation of teachers in this workshop.

                                                                                   Geri Williams

In a time when assessment is all over the page, it is refreshing to participate in a day where informal assessments are deemed valuable as well as formal assessments. I enjoyed the relaxed, small-group atmosphere.

                                                                                  Leslie Paul

This workshop is wonderful and would be great for a school team to attend. We are all facing the same issues no matter where we are from - the information is valuable and applicable.

                                                                               Jeanne Wood

I now have several "how tos" that I can use with my faculty. Even though the participants were from several states, the material presented was timely for us all. It was so relevant.

                                                                             Sharon Cantrell

As a literacy coach, the ideas for protocols in meetings and jointly planning a lesson were the most helpful to me. I wish others from my district had the opportunity to attend.

                                                                                 Teresa Williams

Presenters modeled good pedagogy - much of the day was totally at my district's point of need, even as I made connections to other districts from so many far-flung places! Thank you!

                                                                                       Ann Hengen

It was all very helpful - the protocols for lifting the quality of instruction and the information really got me thinking and probably will be where I begin.

                                                                                   Debbie Andrews

I loved the video clips and the follow-up discussion right after. It was a nice, small group of people. You made the work seem doable and not frightening - thanks, Clare and Tammy!

                                                                              Jeannie Ferguson

It was so helpful how you interacted with the group and kept the day moving along with lots of great dialogue. The content was "easy" to transfer to our schools on Monday. The materials you provided will help.

                                                                                      Jennifer Ward