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Data-Driven Decision Making
What It Is: Five years ago, very few educators had even heard the term “Data-Driven Decision Making.” Today, very few have not. DDDM, or “informed instruction,” is the practice of using real-time…
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Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
What They Are: Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) are educational environments in which teachers work together as a team. They hold each other accountable and focus more on learning and less on teaching (“Are…
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Common Formative Assessments
What They Are Formative assessments are frequently assigned activities (not necessarily test, exams or quizzes) given throughout a lesson or unit that provide teachers with measures of student progress. “Common” assessments refer to those given…
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Priority Standards
What They Are: Most states have hundreds of learning standards and many more subsets of those standards. Educators can’t (and shouldn’t) teach them all in great depth. So, the process of identifying…
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Response to Intervention (RTI)
What It Is: Another practice that is becoming increasingly popular is Response to Intervention (RTI). This refers to the practice of educators intervening to support struggling students in a proactive manner. Schools…
