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Looking for rigor? Here are 6 places to find it in your classroom.

What does it look and sound like when your students are doing rigorous work and thinking deeply? Over the years, I’ve heard a lot of...

To scaffold or not to scaffold? The first big misconception about rigor.

[Originally published by Renaissance Learning] Think back to the last really rigorous and complex task that you worked on. Did you...

A Roadmap for Student Self-Direction: Building Essential Skills for the Future

[Published November 2020 by Students at the Center] Research tells us and both employers and colleges confirm that communication,...

3 Ingredients for Effective Distance Learning

(Originally posted May 13, 2020) When our governor declared in March that learning would continue while schools are closed, he added that...

Deepening Student Understanding with Collaborative Discourse

(Originally posted April 4, 2019.) Most educators can agree that asking students to engage deeply with the content they are learning is...

College & Career Readiness

College and career readiness includes expectations that students demonstrate deep conceptual understanding through the application of...

About the Learning Progressions Frameworks (LPFs)

Visit Focus Area In 2010, as the Common Core State Standards were simultaneously being developed, Dr. Karin Hess was charged to recruit...

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