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SBS:Main

Welcome to the Adams County School District 50 Standards Based Education Wiki
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Contents

Professional Development & Common Understanding Resources

The SBS Main page has been reorganized to bring the most frequently used links to the top of the page.

  • Standard Operating Procedures & Common Understandings - Resources to provide common understandings amoung Adams 50 staff and stakeholders.
  • Instructional Resources - Resources to support understanding the Colorado Academic Standards and the Common Core State Standards as well as access to instructional resources for use in the classroom.
  • Educate - Recording & Reporting Tool - Training tools for teachers and parents on our Standards-based Recording and Reporting tool, Educate.
  • Instructional Technology wiki page provides a variety of tools and resources to support classroom implementation of technology and information literacy. Instructional Technology resources shared at weekly classes in the district are shared here.
  • D50 Teacher Developed Unit Plans - Please check back often, new units are being posted everyday.
  • Interventionist Corner section of the wiki will include lesson plans, resources, and strategies shared among Adams 50 School District Interventionists within Special Education, ELL, and Title I. These resources are accessible to any professional who works with any student needing "targeted" or "intensive" support.
  • Instructional Leader Support- This section of the Wiki is dedicated to providing support for our instructional leaders.

Content Areas

2011-2012 Adams 50 Learning Targets - Learning Target Supporting Documents

Getting Started - The SBE section of the Adams 50 Wiki provides detailed information about what students are learning in content areas and at each performance level. To access information about your child’s content and performance levels:

  • Select Content Area
  • Select Level

The Measurement Topics are followed by Learning Targets (indicated by the District 50 numbering system), that your child must be able to demonstrate in order to be proficient. The numbers are a tracking system for our teachers. At a point in the future when you click on the numbers, a page will provide students, parents and teachers resources to help students achieve the learning targets on their educational journey.

About Standards-based Education

Standards-based education is a proven approach to teaching — and learning. It clearly spells out what students should know and be able to do from one level to the next in all subjects.

What makes our approach unique? Instead of being grouped by age, students are grouped by what they know and are able to do in some subjects such as reading and math. Students who need more challenging work move to the next level without delay, while those who need extra help get it.

Here is another way to think about it: When students play a video game, they must master one level before moving to the next level. They are highly motivated to succeed and in charge of their own progress. So in the classroom, for example, when students master level three in math, they get to move to level four.

Teachers use a “rubric” — a scoring guide — to make sure students learn what they need to know. Students use a guide of their own to track individual progress.

Students earn scores of 1, 2, 3 or 4 that correspond precisely with how well they know the material. A score of 3 is profi cient, with 4 indicating advanced skill or knowledge. Students must earn a score of 3 in each level and then take a test to demonstrate proficiency before advancing to the next level.

Expectations are consistent from class to class and school to school. Teachers, families and students know what knowledge has been mastered and what still needs to be learned.

SBS Professional Development

Adams County School District 50 Standards-based System website

Instructional Resources: Unit Plan Development Resources

Teacher Created Units

Marzano Taxonomy

Resources to support the Colorado Academic Standards and Common Core implementation.

  • NSDL - National Science Digital Library NSDL is the nation's online portal for education and research on learning in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.
  • Interactivate Interactivate is a set of free, online courseware for exploration in science and mathematics. It is comprised of activities, lessons, and discussions.
  • Marzano Proficiency Scale Banks This tool provides scoring guides and sample tasks for the Common Core.
  • North Carolina Department of Public Instruction - Instructional Support Tools North Carolina has unpacked the Common Core State Standards. This resource serves as good source of example problems related to each individual standard. Select the appropriate content area to open a document like the following 4th Grade Math example. Submitted by Jeff Raposa
  • Arizona Department of Education - Math -- Literacy - Provides breakdown of the Common Core State Standards with sample Mathematical Practices and Explanations & Examples.
  • Idaho Total Instruction Alignment - Provides breakdown of the Common Core State Standards with sample ELL, Task Analysis, Vocabulary, Sample Assessment Item, and Materials & Resources.
  • IXL alignment to Colorado math standards (Common Core Standards) With IXL's state standards alignments, you can easily find unlimited practice problems specifically tailored to each required standard. Submitted by Jeff Raposa
  • Connexions - Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities Connexions is a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute:
    • authors create and collaborate
    • instructors rapidly build and share custom collections
    • learners find and explore content
  • Khan Academy The Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere. All of the site's resources are available to anyone. The Khan Academy's materials and resources are available to you completely free of charge.
  • Beacon Learning Center The Beacon Learning Center houses a variety of Lesson Plans and Unit Plans. Beacon Learning Center is an online educational resource and professional development center currently funded through a Technology Innovation Challenge Grant from the U. S. Department of Education (2000-2005). The resources posted in the Beacon database are products of professional development activities teaching a standards-based planning model. While aligned to the 1996 version of Florida's Sunshine State Standards, they remain educationally sound resources for teachers.
  • PhET Simulations Fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena from the PhET project at the University of Colorado.
  • netTrekker Educational Search Tool that brings over 300,000 digital resources into the classroom in a safe, relevant and engaging way, making it easier for educators to personalize the learning experience for every student. The resources were vetted by highly qualified educators and aligned to Colorado state standards, ISTE-NETS and 21st Century skills. Additional embedded tools provide text-to-speech support and dictionary/translation of selected words. And My Portfolio provides you a tool to easily save, organize and share netTrekker and personal web resources across schools and throughout the district.
  • Thinkfinity thinfinity.org is a web site that brings teachers the best online educational resources for free. Through partnerships with 11 of the most trusted names in education, our site offers premier materials that enhance teacher effectiveness and improve student achievement.
  • Curricki Curriki is more than your average website; we're a community of educators, learners and committed education experts who are working together to create quality materials that will benefit teachers and students around the world. Curriki is an online environment created to support the development and free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs them.
  • UDL Guidelines: National Cener on Universal Design for Learning The UDL Guidelines are organized according to the three main principles of UDL that address representation, expression, and engagement. For each of these areas, specific "Checkpoints" for options are highlighted, followed by examples of practical suggestions. Like UDL itself, these Guidelines are flexible and should be mixed and matched into the curriculum as appropriate. The UDL Guidelines are not meant to be a "prescription" but a set of strategies that can be employed to overcome the barriers inherent in most existing curricula. They may serve as the basis for building in the options and the flexibility that are necessary to maximize learning opportunities for all students. Educators may find that they are already incorporating many of these guidelines into their practice.

Educate - Recording & Reporting Tool

Training and resource guides.

Interventionist Corner

This Interventionist Corner section of the wiki will include lesson plans, resources, and strategies shared among Adams 50 School District Interventionists within Special Education, ELL, and Title I. These resources are accessible to any professional who works with any student needing "targeted" or "intensive" support.

Course Proposals

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