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School Improvement Network's Common Core in the Classroom series spotlights classrooms across the country in which lessons aligned with Common Core standards are being taught. In addition to real-life examples of teacher and student engagement, these segments include excerptsfrom teacher interviews that highlight successes of the lesson and the impact the Common Core has had on student learning.

May 4, 2013

Teaching Strategies
Transformational teachers use a variety of effective teaching strategies to fully engage students in learning. Teaching strategies can be used to capture students' attention, facilitate partner and group work, differentiate content for all students, use class time more efficiently, and assess student progress toward mastery. This ongoing series highlights strategies in both elementary and secondary settings.

The all-new, fully redesigned Observation 360 gives you an improved user interface, a full workflow process capability, and more of the features you need to make every teacher effective.

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School Improvement Network filmed 20 Common Core in the Classroom lessons in the DeKalb and Forsyth school districts near Atlanta, Georgia. The breakdown of these lessons is as follows: