Content Areas

The New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards include Preschool Teaching and Learning Standards as well as K-12 standards for: Visual and Performing Arts; Comprehensive Health and Physical Education; Science; Social Studies; World Languages; Technology; and 21st-Century Life and Careers. Standards for Mathematics and Language Arts Literacy are part of the Common Core State Standards initiative coordinated by the Council of Chief States School Officers (CCSSO) and the National Governor’s Association (NGA) in partnership with other national organizations. New Jersey is one of 44 states, Washington, DC and the U.S. Virgin Islands to join the state-led Common Core State Standards initiative.

Podcasts/Videos

• How Differentiated Instruction and Formative Assessment Work at Forest Lake Elementary
• Tapscott on Teaching the Net Generation
• Making Data Matter (Video Interviews)
  Education leaders and school data experts from the district, state, and national levels discuss how data-driven decision making can be used to drive instruction during a recent Education Week Leadership Forum on “Making Data Matter.”

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For Professional Discussion

Implementation of the Model Curriculum

• The Misuse of Professional Development
• Finding new ways to educate kids
  Many local teachers are getting creative as they try to address budget cuts
• Safe Strategies for Children to Engage in Social Media

** Hot Topics **

• Social Networking Goes to School

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Digital Learner

• Five lessons from the nation’s best online teacher
• Blogging with Middle Schoolers: Frontloading and First Steps
• Raising a Generation of Digital Citizens

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