Technology / Supporting Core Skills Series

Course Description Creating talking stories will brighten the lives of every student! Pictello is a wonderful, inexpensive and easy app used to create talking photo albums and books on an iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. Students and teachers can create text-driven speaking[...]

Course Description: One of the major components of the Common Core standards is the use of technology. Anchor standard 6 for Writing is: Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact with others. In this course you[...]

Course Description: Instructive research on "90/90/90 schools" - 90% poverty, 90% minority, and 90% proficient – gives insights into strategies that support struggling writers. Two key approaches involve calibrated scoring practices as well as a focus on non-fiction. In this course, we[...]