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November 7, 2014

Tricia Ebner is an intervention specialist, teaching gifted and talented students in English-Language Arts in grades 6-8 in Stark County, Ohio Just a couple of days ago, the Rules & Reference Committee of the Ohio House of Representatives voted a bill out of committee that would...

November 3, 2014

Melissa Mazur is a curriculum designer, an educational blogger at Common Core & So Much More, and third grade teacher. New Math.  Parents hate it.  They don't get it.  It's not the way they were taught and they can't understand why learning so many strategies and...

October 30, 2014

Brad Clark is a Kentucky State Fellow for the Hope Street Group, blogger and Virtual Community Organizer for the Center for Teaching Quality, and a fourth and fifth grade Language Arts and Social Studies teacher at Simmons Elementary in Versailles, Kentucky. He tweets at @notbradclark. It...

October 23, 2014

Ryan O. Murphey teaches high school English in Nashville, Tennessee, is  a Grammy-nominated music producer, songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist, and is currently serving as a Tennessee Educator Fellow with SCORE. Throughout Tennessee and across the country, in classrooms just like mine at Maplewood High School in...

October 22, 2014

Jessica Moore is an elementary teacher in Colorado. She is also a member of the PARCC Educator Leadership Cadre. <span "font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-bidi-font-family:calibri;="" mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"="">1.       <span "font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-bidi-font-family:="" tahoma"="">The standards enable me to be creative in my approach and implementation of student learning. They do not limit me to low level,...