Author Archive: Heather Crossin
State board member recommends adoption of pre-Common Core Standards
Andrea Neal is a sitting member of the Indiana State Board of Education, representing District 5. She teaches Grade 6 and Grade 7 English, as well as 8th Grade U.S. History, at St. Richards Episcopal School in Indianapolis. Since the proposed Indiana academic standards for Math and ELA were released last Tuesday, she is just […]
Dr. Stotsky in Indiana Critiquing Hoosier ELA Standards
“Meaningless verbiage… Empty skill sets…No progression from grade to grade… Too much emphasis on informational text… Absence of purpose.” These were some of the comments made this past Saturday by Indiana high school English teachers about the latest draft of the Indiana ELA Standards at a workshop led by standards guru Sandra […]
Professional Development Opportunity for all Hoosier High School Literature Teachers
As Indiana is in the process of creating a new set of K-12 English and Math Standards, a unique professional development opportunity exists for Indiana high school literature teachers. They are invited to attend any portion, or all, of a FREE conference this coming weekend, April 3-5, which is being hosted by the Association of […]
Proposed Indiana Social Studies Standards: A Step Down!
If you haven’t heard that the Indiana State Board of Education is scheduled to vote this coming Wednesday, March 12, 2013, on new proposed Social Studies Standards, you aren’t alone. Even though we are fairly watchful, it was not until last week that we discovered this information. Upon googling it this morning, guess what? As […]
A Peek at Indiana’s New Draft ELA Standards
We recently put out a general request for feedback on the new “draft” Indiana standards. Here are some general comments that we have heard from teachers on the ELA Standards. It is by NO means a comprehensive critique, but rather a compilation of some of the comments we have received to date. We expect that […]
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