Closing the Gap between Risk and Resilience

How Struggling Learners Can Cope with the Common Core State Standards

By (author) Harriet D. Porton

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Publication date:

24 January 2014

Length of book:

166 pages

Publisher

R&L Education

ISBN-13: 9781475805772

Although there has been considerable interest and concern surrounding the implementation of the Common Core State Standards, there is almost no information regarding best practices for getting at-risk students to attempt the rigor embraced by the Standards. This text offers lesson plans, realistic advice, and explanations and descriptions focused on how to move academically discouraged students from failure to thrive to success with the Common Core.
As teachers we look for specific ways to scaffold instruction to assist students in reaching the goals we set forth. Harriet has scored another hit in Closing the Gap Between Risk and Rigor by providing numerous model sample lesson plans (and personal life-long experiences) which deliberately expose students to learning opportunities to challenge and extend their higher order thinking skills. Like the peeling of an onion, she exposes each new layer of student need in order to scaffold instruction and thereby construct the bridge that students need to meet the Common Core State Standards.