Common Core CPR: What About the Adolescents Who Struggle . . . or Just Don’t Care?

by ReLeah Cossett Lent, Barry Gilmore

How to revive your most resistant learners Common Core CPR is needed. Urgently. Because if we continue to insist that all students meet expectations that are well beyond their abilities, these kids will only decline faster. We must cast aside what we know harms students and apply the teaching methods we know work.

Embracing what is best about the standards, Lent and Gilmore explicitly connect ideal outcomes to practical classroom strategies, including how to  

Genres: Education

344 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2013

Reviews

[Heather Stringham · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book took me so long to review because I kept putting it to the side rather than just reading it all at once. This book gives reading lists and ideas for how to implement the standards into what you already do. I appreciated the way the author talked to current teachers and asked how what they do is interpreted by the standards.

[Kim · Rating 3 out of 5]

Teacher book about working with striving learners and the CCSS. (Reader, please know I try to tolerate the ubiquitous CCSS label on teacher literacy texts, but it tires my very soul). This book would have four stars without the CCSS.

[M Miller · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really great take on the core standards--good for middle school and struggling learners. This one is a new favorite resource!

[Meg · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great reminder of many best practices (engagement, autonomy, scaffolding, etc.) while showing their relation to the CCSS.