Connect Common Core, inquiry, and technology!

While technology ushers in exciting and innovative educational opportunities, finding best practices for its complete integration remains a challenge.

Christopher Moersch, founder of the internationally recognized and research-based LoTi Framework, provides a concrete tool for implementing digital age best practices. With discussions on how to promote networked collaboration, bolster purposeful inquiry, and anchor student decision-making and learning with technology tools and resources, Moersch uses research-based instructional strategies to deliver:

• A concrete road map for a smooth digital transition into new Common Core Standards
• Lesson plans, benchmarks, and instructional units to help bridge the link between 21st century skills, Common Core Standards, and student achievement
• Practical tips for classroom, building, and district implementation of digital age best practices
• Tools and guidance for successful PLCs

Make the critical connection between effective implementation of 21st century skills/themes and student academic achievement part of your school’s pedagogy!

“When schools need to equip students with the skills to facilitate creativity, here is the blueprint. This carefully crafted advice has been road-tested and it works.”
—Neil MacNeill, Principal
Ellenbrook Independent Primary School, Ellenbrook, WA

• Provides classroom teachers, instructional coaches, building and district administrators with a concrete road map to implement the tenets of 21st Century skills/themes using Digital Age Best Practices that includes the necessary research base, exemplars, and implementation strategies.
• Addresses the link between 21st Century skills/themes, student achievement, and the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), offering a proven methodology that includes sample lesson plans, benchmarks, and instructional units to provide a smooth segue for schools transitioning to the Common Core State Standards.
• The Digital Age Best Practices section gives the reader the background and rationale for each strategie's' inclusion as a best practice, practical implementation tips/examples for classroom, building, and district use, and implementation barriers/solutions as well as sample lesson plans, classroom walkthrough templates, benchmark assessments, staff development agendas, and learning center/station activity cards.
• Provides school and district leaders with an implementation model that shows them how to build capacity for change, implement the change, and then sustain that change.