Super Summary

What a wonderful resource this site is.  Thank you to Lorrie Dyson for suggesting it.  This site contains all subjects and is a great resource for lots of topics and subjects.

supersummary.com

I also found that Jefferson County Schools has a nice chart of instructional resources aligned to grade level standards.  Jefferson County School Instructional Resources

Prediction

This is how I see last year's group coming in this year:


 

They think they've got this place down.

But all of their new teachers will be like




and soon... they aren't so badass anymore...

It has begun

It has begun...  the life of a special education teacher is not always fun, especially just before school starts.  I just read my incoming IEP's.  All I can say is:

Moving to the Common Core

Just found this resource while searching for performance tasks...

Moving to the Common Core

M-STEP year two (and last year?) what's up with that?

Wow, It's been a year since I've posted here!  Yikes!  I've been so busy I haven't even thought about this lonely old blog.

So, it seems as though M-STEP will be going away.  I just don't understand how we can continue to be evaluated with a new test every year.  Really... next year will be our third new test.  I guess I feel that if the state doesn't feel it's a good test for kids, how can they feel that it's still okay to evaluate us using it?

Go figure...

Anyway, the good thing is that they now have come out with student tutorials :)

Here's the link:
M-STEP tutorial

Happy testing :)

M-step

Boy am I glad the M-step is over!  I do wish that our classes would have spent more time on the practice page set up by MDE.

Here's the link:  M-step practice page

American Statistical Association

It's been a long time, but I found another good site.  This one is for statistics lessons.

http://www.amstat.org/education/stew/