I’m stuck tonight unable to sleep.  It seems dumb, but I cannot stop thinking about those HB555 changes.  I’ve got this image in my head of what the end of the 2014-2015 school year will look like in Ohio, and it’s a little something like this: We’re a year into holding kids back in third grade for the Third Grade Reading Guarantee.  Elementary ...

This morning, I attended an Achieve 3000 webinar on ELA for the Common Core.  Below are the notes I took as the presentation went on–there was some repeated information (things I’ve already heard), but also a LOT of new stuff!  I draw your attention to these new bits of info with bolded, underlined, and/or italicized formatting.  I’ll post the PDF ...