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7 Strategies for Administrators to Support Writing Across the Curriculum
Implement a uniform approach to writing instruction across a school or district.
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7 Strategies for Administrators to Support Writing Across the Curriculum
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Introducing a Redesigned ThinkCERCA for Students
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8 Minutes with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Principal Mark Bosco
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Fostering Innovation and Collaboration on a Budget
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How Teachers Across the Country are Using ThinkCERCA
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Q&A With Charlotte, N.C. Teacher Patrick Ames
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Advanced Literacies and the 4 Hallmarks
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Q&A With Cincinnati Teacher Michael Armstrong
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Q&A With Arizona Teacher Mark Boen
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Q&A With ThinkCERCA Teacher Rebeca Garza
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Q&A With ThinkCERCA Teacher Liz Kenney
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Q&A With ThinkCERCA Teacher Tiffany Walston
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Meet Kolani Fowler, the Newest School Success Manager
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ThinkCERCA's 2018 Year in Review
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6 Things Every Education Leader Should Know About Equity
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Q&A With Washington Teacher Ryan Custodio
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Q&A with Chicago Teacher Megan Macellaio
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Q&A with Dr. Jennifer Winward, Educator and Entrepreneur
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Bridging the Critical Thinking Skills Gap with Writing
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Q&A With Veteran ThinkCERCA Teacher Ann Whitehair
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We're Sunsetting Our Free Offering. Here's Why.
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We've Refreshed Part of the ThinkCERCA Curriculum
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8 Questions to Consider when Looking for Teacher Professional Development Options
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How Bibb County Designed their Literacy Plan to Align with the Redesigned CCRPI
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Introducing the New ThinkCERCA
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Meeting the Redesigned CCRPI Indicators
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Q&A With the Lead Teacher at One of Our Top-Performing Partner Schools
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Our Favorite Videos Showing How Teachers Use ThinkCERCA
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Quality Review: 3 Ways New York Principals Can Empower Their Team
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5 Questions to Spur Critical Thinking in the Classroom
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Examples of Critical Thinking in Everyday Life
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Why Writing in Math and Science Matters
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Using ThinkCERCA to Impact the Instructional Core on the Quality Review
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5 Tips from Educators on Giving Effective Feedback
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What Instructional Leaders Must Do to Be Successful with ThinkCERCA
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Product Update: Print Class and Grade Usage Reports
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How to Support Long-Term English Learners Across the Curriculum
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12 Ideas for Improving NWEA Scores at the School and Classroom Level
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Personalized Learning Strategies that Make a Difference
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How to Set Ambitious Goals with OKRs
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Why Personalized Learning Is Important
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Personalized, Blended Learning: How to Make It Work
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What Is Personalized Learning?
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5 Reasons to Focus on Being 10 Percent Better and Grateful Every Week
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How to Teach Entrepreneurship to Students
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Teacher Perspective: How I Teach Critical Thinking
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Writing Across the Curriculum Checklist
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VIDEO: What Does "Critical Thinking" Mean to You?
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13 Narrative Writing Prompts About Family
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Product Update: Favoriting Lessons
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9 Writing Prompts to Prepare Students for the College Admissions Essay
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Product Update: Better Highlighting, Navigation, and Scrolling Experiences for Tablet Users
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3 Activities to Help Students Make Sense of the News
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Product Update: Interactive Skills & Concepts Instruction
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The Best Test Prep? It's Great Instruction Every Day
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Building Trust With New Students
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How Are Your Users Responding to the Learning Environment You Have Designed?
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Transform Your School with Google’s Approach to Decision-Making
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Using CHAMPS to Influence Classroom Behavior
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Making Thematic Connections Between Literature and Current Events
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From Mesopotamian Civilization to the Classification of Organisms, Here are Two New CERCA Sets
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Improve Your School’s Approach to Cross-Curricular Collaboration
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3 Ways Instructional Leaders Can Champion Technology in the Classroom
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Project Planning Using MOCHA
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Make Your Senior Team Smarter with Annual "Teach-ins"
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Creating a Culture Where Rigor is the Norm
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9 Movie Trailer Writing Prompts
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Product Update: New Lesson Details Page and Assignment Workflow
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Using the Fogg Behavior Model to Drive Change in Your School
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Cultivating a Growth-Mindset Culture Throughout Your School or District
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Building Community Between Teachers and Admins
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10 Tech Tools Every Administrator Needs
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What Does Differentiation Look Like for Teachers?
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How to Help Teachers Differentiate in the Classroom Effectively
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Product Update: Grade Level and Classroom Usage Reporting for Admins
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Why Students Need to Learn to Write Online to Be Successful
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These Were the Most-Assigned Lessons in the 2016-17 School Year
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Making the Most of ThinkCERCA's Standards-Aligned Rubrics
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Why a Shared Calendar Makes All the Difference for Your Team
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Making Time for Cross-Curricular Collaboration
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The 2017 CERCA Slam Winners
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Stories from the Classroom: Incorporating ThinkCERCA into Special Education Curriculum
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Media Bias: What It Is and How to Spot It
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Why Differentiation is the Most Effective SAT Prep
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VIDEO: Student Voice and Choice at Work in Chicago's Ashburn Elementary
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Break Out of ‘Sit-and-Get’ PD with These Hands-On Workshop Tips
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The Teachers Who Made a Difference
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What Effective Professional Development Looks Like
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62 Differentiated Poetry Lessons for Elementary, Middle, and High School Students
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Why CERCA is a More Rigorous Writing Framework than RACE
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Blended Literacy Scorecard: How can you strengthen your school or district’s approach to personalized literacy?
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Why Teachers and Administrators Should Take Time for Themselves
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5 Non-Education Newsletters Every Educator Should Read
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9 Questions You Should Ask Before Planning a Blended Adventure
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Test or No Test: Skills That Matter
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How to Teach Informative or Explanatory Writing
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Step-by-Step Guide: Planning an Argument Unit
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How to Teach Narrative Writing
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Infographic: 8 Ways to Build Your Students' Argumentation Skills
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The Best Productivity Tools to Make Your School More Efficient (and Fun)
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Using the Start–Stop–Continue Framework to Optimize Classroom Strategies
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How to Teach Argumentative Writing
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Announcing the 2017 Social Impact Challenge Winners
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The Power of Adaptive Learning Spaces in Schools
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Immigration Lessons for Elementary, Middle, and High School Students
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Real News and Sponsored Articles: Distinguish them with this Checklist
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Beyond the Performance Review
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The Power of Repeat Actions and Traditions
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Product Update: New ELA Teaching Resources
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How Students Can Use Argumentation to Evaluate Super Bowl Predictions
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How Art on Walls Can Make a Difference in Schools
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10 Football Argumentative Writing Prompts
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Why Writing Opens Doors for Students
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When Articles Link to Evidence, How do We Know the Evidence is Accurate?
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Differentiated Lessons on Martin Luther King, Jr. for Grades 9-12
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Differentiated Lessons on Martin Luther King, Jr. for Grades 6-8
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Differentiated Lessons on Martin Luther King, Jr. for Grades 3-5
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Designing Classrooms that Promote Rapid Teacher Feedback
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Free and Easy Storytelling Tools for Educators to Leverage
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Dear Mr. President
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Discover Individual Strengths to Optimize Your Team
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Activity: Improve Your School’s Decision-Making with the Marshmallow Challenge
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Helping Students Think Critically in a Post-Truth World
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Improve Collaboration (and Save Time) with a Stand-up Meeting
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We Added a 4-Point Rubric to ThinkCERCA
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Using Math to Tackle One of the World's Biggest Challenges
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Organizing Schools for Success: 5 Levers for Improvement
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Improve Student Outcomes with a Time-on-Task Chart
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How Selling Milkshakes Can Help Us Select Better Ed-Tech Products
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5 Principles for Approaching School Improvement Like an Entrepreneur
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ThinkCERCA Named K-12 Pedagogy Winner at “Oscars of Education”
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6 Things Any Teacher Can Do to Help Close the Achievement Gap
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New Math Literacy Lessons on Systems and Structure
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Product Update: Mid-Year Assessments Are Here!
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College and Career Pay Off in New Math Literacy Lessons
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Infographic: 7 Conversational Strategies for Developing Bilinguals
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ThinkCERCA Wins NewSchools Ignite ELL Challenge
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How Getting My Class to Talk More Made a World of a Difference for a Bilingual Student
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Transform Your Math Class with New Geometry Lessons
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#CERCAtheVote: Nate Silver’s Election Predictions
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115 Lessons for Teaching 2016 Election Issues in Any Classroom
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New Math Literacy Lessons: Patterns in Integers
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Educator Spotlight: Caroline Schmitt of Fayette County Schools
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#CERCAtheVote: Clinton Defends Family Foundation Against “Pay to Play”
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Crack the Code of Math Literacy with Our New Ciphers Lessons
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#CERCAtheVote: Trump Claims Election Is 'Rigged'
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#CERCAtheVote: Michelle Obama Says Trump Comments Can't Be Ignored
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The Best Policy? Teaching Literacy in Math!
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#CERCAtheVote: Does the Chicago Tribune Make an Effective Argument in its Endorsement of Gary Johnson for President?
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New Math Lessons to Connect with Tonight's Debate and More
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#CERCAtheVote: Who Makes a Stronger Accusation on Aiding Terrorism – Trump or Clinton?
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Prepare for Assessments with Great Instruction Every Day
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Kick Off Your Math Class with New Sports Statistics Lessons
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Back to School with a New Math Lesson Set!
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Building Knowledge and Skills in a Meaningful Sequence
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This Toilet Paper Icebreaker is Perfect for the First Day of Class
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Product Update: New Lesson Names
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Product Update: A New Back-to-School Look for the Lesson Library
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5 Tips for Curating a Tech Culture in the Classroom
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Product Update: New Benchmark Assessments
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Infographic: Setting Expectations for Successful Blended Learning Structures
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A Bingo Chart for Adventurous Reading
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Infographic: How Teachers do Summer Reading
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How ThinkCERCA Helps Teachers Support a Growth Mindset
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ThinkCERCA's Year in Review
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ThinkCERCA Wins NewSchools Ignite Math Challenge
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Prepare Your Students for Success on PSSA TDAs
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Stories from the Classroom: Aida Coullias of McIntosh High School
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Stories from the Classroom: Dylan Porter of Patrick Henry Elementary School
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And the 2016 CERCA Slam Winners Are ...
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Artful History Lessons about the Renaissance
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Revolutionary History Lessons about Thomas Paine
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New Leveled Science Lessons for Chemistry, Biology, and Engineering
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Our Evidence-Based Arguments for Why Teachers Are Awesome
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Shake, Rattle, and Roll! Leveled Lessons on Plate Tectonics
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Stories from the Classroom: Observations from Healy Elementary School
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Product Update: Downloadable Class Reports and Insights on Standards Performance
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Leveled Industrial Revolution Lessons: It's About Time!
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Product Update: End of Year Assessments
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The Incredible Lives Behind the New Faces of U.S. Currency
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Video: Bill Gates Highlights ThinkCERCA as Innovative Literacy Tool at ASU GSV
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New Leveled U.S. History Lessons: Westward Expansion and Great Depression
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Go Green with ThinkCERCA: Differentiated Literacy Lessons for Earth Day
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On 400th Anniversary, Analyzing Shakespeare Through the CERCA Lens
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Product Update: "CERCA Starter" Is Now "Progress Monitoring"!
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Find Your Way to Math Success with "Geometry of Maps" Lessons
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Celebrate National Poetry Month with New Sonnets Lessons
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New Differentiated Social Studies Literacy Lesson Sets
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Build Your Students' Math Literacy Skills: Geometry in Architecture
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Evolve Your Students' Critical Thinking Skills with New Science Literacy Lessons
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Women’s History Month: Resources for Your Classroom
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New Narrative Writing Lessons and Spanish-Language Lessons
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Report Shows ThinkCERCA Demonstrates Gains Equal to One Year of Growth
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LEAP Innovations Praises ThinkCERCA’s “Significant Impact”
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Comparing Traditional Tales, Plus More Policy and Debate!
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Product Update: New Reports for Classroom and Schoolwide Progress Monitoring
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New Differentiated Lessons on Narrative Writing and STEM
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Prepare Your Students for Success on New York Regents Exams
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Resources to Engage Students in Political Debate
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Study Materials for U.S. History and Civics Exams
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ThinkCERCA's Social Impact Challenge: And the Winners Are....
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More Free Spanish Close Reading Lessons!
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4 Quick Tips for Integrating ThinkCERCA into Your Curriculum
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Leveled Lesson Ideas for Presidents’ Day
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Geckos and Spiders and Chameleons, Oh My! New Science Lessons
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New Math Literacy Lessons Help Students Prepare for New State Assessments
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46 Differentiated Lessons for Black History Month
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Product Update: The Case of the Mysterious Multiple Choice Answers
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We're Cooking Up Something New: More Math Literacy Lessons!
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Get to Know Your ThinkCERCA Account in 3 Steps
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President Obama's CERCA of the Union
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Differentiated Lessons to Gear Students Up for National History Day
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Back from Break with Something for Everyone! New ELA, Math, Science and Social Studies Lessons
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From Ancient History to Current Events: New Social Studies Leveled Lessons
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New Leveled Physics and Life Science Lessons
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Writing Personal Narratives to Prepare for New State Assessments
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History, Science, and ELA -- New Lessons Now Live!
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(ThinkCERCA + Math) x Support = One Awesome Product Update
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Differentiated Earth and Life Science Writing Modules
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Two Weeks Left Before the Holidays: Your Social Impact Challenge Plan
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ThinkCERCA Named a Winner of the Chicago Inno 50 on Fire Awards
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New Common Core-Aligned Social Studies Lesson Sets
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Remembering Nelson Mandela: Leveled Texts Paired with Automated Assessments
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Leveled Close Reading Lessons About the Origins of Thanksgiving
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Gather Baseline Writing Measures with CERCA Starter's New Writing Assessment
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New Differentiated Social Studies and Science Lesson Sets
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Free Close Reading Lessons: Physics of Skating, History of Weather, and More
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Blended Learning Quick Tip: Parking Laptop
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National Bullying Prevention Month: Lessons for Educating Your Students
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New Differentiated STEM Lessons: Scientists Take On Batteries
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Free Lessons with CCSS-Aligned Assessments: Historical Figures, Sports Health, and More
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Product Update: Change Reading Levels Within CERCA Starter
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New Lessons for ELA and Social Studies: Columbus Day and Kid Inventors
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Stories from the Classroom: Yinka Teibo of West Phoenix High School
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ThinkCERCA Gives Administrators Insights into Student Performance
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Who Knew Differentiation Could Be This Easy?
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New Social Studies and Science Lessons
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More Lessons! Science and Social Studies for Grades 3-5
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New Science and Social Studies Lessons for Grades 3, 4, and 5
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Understanding CERCA Starter Insights
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Can't Get Access to a Computer Lab? Try Our Paper-Based CERCA Starter
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Product Update: New Student View, District-Level Insights
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ThinkCERCA Co-Founder, Abby Ross, Profiled on BusinessCollective
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ThinkCERCA and Cricket Media Extend Partnership
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6 Reasons We Love Back-to-School Season
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New Multitext Social Studies Lessons: Progressive Era Child Labor
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Getting Started With CERCA Starter
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Personalized Learning: Reaching All Students with ThinkCERCA
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New This Week: Technology and the Fourth Amendment
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Chicago Startups "Make Thinking Visible"
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Gates Foundation Highlights One Middle School's Journey with ThinkCERCA
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Bill Gates Talks ThinkCERCA and Teacher Empowerment
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What’s New: New Insight Dashboard and CERCA Starter
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Increasing Rigor Through Close Reading and Argumentative Writing
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New This Week: Discovering Poetry's Sonic Techniques
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Event Wrap-up: EdTech Collaborative's Personalized Learning Summit
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Join the Innovators at EdTech Collaborative's 2015 Personalized Learning Summit
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Using Shared Language to Improve Student Outcomes
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New Lessons This Week: Mahatma Gandhi, Voting and Civil War
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ChicagoInno Looks at EdTech at Techweek
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How to Gain Ed Tech Startup Traction
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CPS Launches an EdTech Catalog with Vetted Software for Schools
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The Atlantic Examines Big Data in Education
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ThinkCERCA Launches 2015 Summer Reading Challenge
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New This Week: More Common Core-Aligned Grade 3-5 Science Lessons
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ThinkCERCA Co-Founders Receive 2015 Moxie Award
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Is Pearson the Biggest Obstacle or Opportunity to Getting Games in the Classroom?
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New This Week: Common Core-Aligned Science Lessons for Grades 3, 4, and 5
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2nd Annual CERCA Slam Winners
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ThinkCERCA Partners with We The Economy on Free Economics Lessons
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New ThinkCERCA Updates: Improved Lesson Library, Cleaner Design
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3 Ways Teachers Can Prepare Students for Testing Season
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ThinkCERCA and Follett Knowledge Fund Partner, Announce Completion of $3.2M Series A Round
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Eileen Murphy on the Startup Accelerator Experience
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Miriam Ivanenko and Natasha Buehler, ThinkCERCA Social Impact Challenge Winners
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The Benefits of Differentiation: ThinkCERCA CEO Interviewed by Edudemic
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Abby Ross’s 3 Strategies for Female Entrepreneurs Shared by Women 2.0
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Q&A with Amaya Fuentes and Guilianna Schamy, ThinkCERCA Social Impact Challenge Winners
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New ThinkCERCA Hires Featured in 'Chicago Business Journal'
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ThinkCERCA Hires VP of School Partnerships and School Success Coordinator
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Q&A with Jia Li, a ThinkCERCA Social Impact Challenge Winner
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Abby Ross: Leadership Lessons for Women in Tech Featured in 'TIME' Magazine
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Q&A with Victor Ren, a ThinkCERCA Social Impact Challenge Winner
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Abby Ross Interviewed by TechRepublic About Co-Working Options for Startups
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Q&A with Andrew Sacks, a ThinkCERCA Social Impact Challenge Winner
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Abby Ross: 3 Leadership Lessons for Women in Tech
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How ThinkCERCA Stays Organized: Abby Ross Shares Her Tips for Fixing Broken Meetings
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ThinkCERCA Named One of the Best Ed Tech Tools of 2014 by Graphite
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NationSwell Spotlights ThinkCERCA's Partnership with UN Foundation
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ThinkCERCA and UN Foundation Announce Nothing But Nets Partnership
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Huffington Post Details Eileen Murphy’s Journey from Educator to Entrepreneur
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ThinkCERCA Wins Chicago Innovation Up-and-Comer Award
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Huffington Post: ThinkCERCA COO on Creating Simple Solutions to Complex Problems
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'Forbes' Features Abby Ross's Leadership Lessons for Women in Tech
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ThinkCERCA Poetry Content
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How Long Should A CERCA Be?
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Using Google Translate
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Using Chrome Speak
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ThinkCERCA Wins $250,000 Grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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