The city of Fort Collins, Colorado, found a win-win solution to problems it faced with 100 acres of abandoned property. The city now enjoys new green space, improved floodwater management, and a boosted economy.

This is an ELA lesson planning template. It follows a gradual release framework. It was adapted from the ELA lesson plan template provided by NCDPI via the VIK.

The 12th grade learning experience consists of 7 mostly month-long units aligned to the Common Core State Standards, with available course material for teachers and students easily accessible online. Over the course of the year there is a steady progression in text complexity levels, sophistication of writing tasks, speaking and listening activities, and increased opportunities for independent and collaborative work. Rubrics and student models accompany many writing assignments.Throughout the 12th grade year, in addition to the Common Read texts that the whole class reads together, students each select an Independent Reading book and engage with peers in group Book Talks. Language study is embedded in every 12th grade unit as students use annotation to closely review aspects of each text. Teacher resources provide additional materials to support each unit.

This project unit—a multimedia self-portrait published in digital form—is the capstone of your students' high school careers. It is a chance for them to pause and reflect on where they've been, where they're going, and who they are as a person. Students will reflect on what they want others to know about them: what they want their message to be and what types of media they might use to convey that message. Students will have the opportunity to express themselves in many different formats—through writing, of course, but also through other media of their choosing. Students will be able to convey your message through visual art, photography, a graphic novel, audio, poetry, or video—practically any type of media they want!

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Students will complete a multimedia self-portrait, capturing important aspects of the essence of themselves.
Students will contribute one chapter from their multimedia self-portrait to a class anthology.
Students will present one chapter from their multimedia self-portrait to the class.

GUIDING QUESTIONS

These questions are a guide to stimulate thinking, discussion, and writing on the themes and ideas in the unit. For complete and thoughtful answers and for meaningful discussions, students must use evidence based on careful reading of the texts.

How is late adolescence a moment of internal and external change?
What are the most important qualities of your character—past, present, and future?
How can you portray these key aspects of yourself using multimedia?

BENCHMARK ASSESSMENT: Cold Read

During this unit, on a day of your choosing, we recommend you administer a Cold Read to assess students’ reading comprehension. For this assessment, students read a text they have never seen before and then respond to multiple-choice and constructed-response questions. The assessment is not included in this course materials.

It’s time to start pulling it all together! Students will work on creating, editing, and compiling the various chapters of their self-portrait.

Students will recognize the importance of gathering research information on life circumstances before making a decision.

Lying directly south of New Orleans on Louisiana’s coast, Grand Isle often bears the brunt of strong waves and storm surge in the Gulf of Mexico. To protect this town and inland parishes from flooding, engineers constructed a first line of defense.

This resource provides a lesson designed to assist learners with acquiring skills needed to differentiate between real and fictious, possibly malicious, websites. Students will evaluate hoax sites prior to outlining and designing one of their own. It is expected that this lesson will help students to better recognize trustworthy sites for online reading and research.

This template provides a framework for planning instructional interventions at any grade level.

With valuable cultural and dietary assets at risk from sea level rise, this Pacific Northwest Tribe developed a plan to identify community adaptation priorities and concerns, and charted a course of action to address them.

This About the Cluster is from the authors of the NC2ML Instructional Frameworks. It provides background information about the mathematics content and pedagogy. This is not remixable since it has been created by the authors of the NC2ML Instructional Frameworks.

This About the Cluster document is from the authors of the NC2ML Instructional Frameworks. The document should be used to support planning Cluster 4 in Grade 4. This is not remixable since it is from the authors of the Instructional Frameworks.

This About the Cluster document was created by the authors of the NC2ML Instructional Frameworks. This document should be used to support the planning of Cluster 5 in Grade 4. This document is not remixable since it is from the authors of the Instructional Frameworks.

This document was written by the authors of the NC2ML Instructional Frameworks. It is not remixable. The document provides insight into the big math ideas and teaching strategies that should be emphasized during Grade 5, Cluster 1.

This About the Cluster document was written by the authors of the NC2ML instructional Frameworks. This document provides information about the major mathematical ideas and strategies in Grade 5 Cluster 2. This is not remixable since it is written by the authors of the NC2ML Instructional Frameworks.

This article provides an overview of the various types of festivals and learning events, ideas for getting started, and links to articles and planning resources.

This professional learning resource was created to provide the BT with one document which houses quick links to a majority of the main resources needed for planning. This "one-stop shop" keeps the BT focused on credible resources without having to search the various sites to locate the planning resources.

This professional learning resource was created to provide the BT with one document which houses quick links to a majority of the main resources needed for planning. This "one-stop shop" keeps the BT focused on credible resources without having to search the various sites to locate the planning resources.

After an extremely heavy rain destroyed almost 500 miles of roadway in Colorado, the state is redesigning some roadways—and the streams they follow—to make the roads more resilient to future floods.