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ASCD Fall Conference
Register for ASCD's 2012 Fall Conference, which will be held October 26–28 in Atlanta, Ga. This year's theme is "Revolutionizing the Way We Lead and Learn."
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Find and Follow ASCD on Pinterest
Whether you're looking for interesting quotes and ideas or searching for end-of-day inspiration, check out the latest pins on topics ranging from professional development to a whole child approach to education.
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Seven Tips for Aligning Assignments to Common Core
To match the instructional shifts inherent in the Common Core State Standards, consider these seven guidelines for designing assignments.
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Blog Watch:
YA Why?
This blog features new and classic young adult fiction reviewed by The Onion. Discover titles that readers of all ages won't be able to put down.
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Creating, Cultivating, and Sustaining a Culture of Achievement
Good school culture has high expectations for student behavior and achievement that focuses on building on students' strengths but also zealously giving students (and teachers) the support they need to learn and grow. This issue seeks examples of school cultures that support and sustain student achievement.
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Assignments Matter
In her new ASCD book Assignments Matter: Making the Connections That Help Students Meet Standards, Eleanor Dougherty writes, "Well-crafted assignments hold the potential to make learning and teaching more focused and relevant because in the crafting process teachers must be deliberate and highly aware of the context, content, and charge involved in an assignment."
This issue of ASCD Express describes the building blocks of high-quality assignments and offers tools to kick-start or refine your own practice.
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Assignment—The "-ing" in "Teaching"
Assignment must-haves include a prompt, a product, and a rubric. Find out how these features work together to build a lesson from hook to closure.
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Creating Quality Classroom Assignments
Use this tool to design assignments that are matched to cognitive and content-learning targets and that clearly communicate expectations.
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Five Hallmarks of Good Homework
Is your homework designed to reflect purpose, efficiency, ownership, competence, and aesthetic appeal?
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Designing Well-Crafted Assignments
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How Assignments, Assessments, and Activities Differ and Relate
 Assignments Matter author Eleanor Dougherty describes how assignments differ from assessments and activities and how these three relate to one another.
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My Back Pages:
Ours Is a Singing School (1959)
A California principal strikes a chord with his school community by using song and arts integration to encourage confidence and cohesion.
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Assignments Students Own
  Students must understand why an assignment is relevant, have some say in what they produce and how they produce it, and receive ongoing feedback on where they are in relation to learning goals.
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