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The Montana Learning Center (MLC) and Montana State University's National Teacher Enhancement Network are offering a new remote telescope course. The course will help teachers and their students learn how to use the MLC's 16-inch research-grade Ritchey-Chretien telescope for classroom projects. The course runs from January 27, 2020 to May 8, 2020. Register here to sign up for the course. The course is free.
The Montana Historical Society has a new hands-on-history footlocker, Discover Lewis and Clark. The footlocker traces their expedition through Montana and their encounters with American Indians. Visit the society's website for more information about the new footlocker.
To support your students with reading informational text, take the Hub course “Supporting Readers with Informational Texts.” This course is a reading methods course for any teacher who wishes to deepen students' comprehension and engagement with challenging informational text. The course will teach you how to help any reader by modifying lesson structure, teaching and modeling comprehension strategies, and employing fix-up strategies when comprehension breaks down. It features the Montana Historical Society’s wonderful history book, Stories of the Land.
A new report from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute confirms some concerns with online resources. “Reviewers evaluated more than 300 resources from three online platforms—ReadWriteThink, Share My Lesson, and Teachers Pay Teachers—for alignment to the Common Core State Standards and overall quality. Most of the materials, 64 percent, received an overall rating of very poor or mediocre.” Check out our vetted, Smarter Balanced Digital Library resources created with the help of Montana educators and available for free to all Montana teachers. For science, visit the OpenSciEd units for science. All units were independently reviewed by Achieve's Science Peer Review Panel and are listed as examples of quality materials on the nextgenscience.org website. Read more here.
The Content Standards & Instruction Team
Director - Colet Bartow, 406-444-3583
English Language Arts Coordinator - Christy Mock-Stutz, 406-444-0736
Montana Comprehensive Literacy Project Manager - Terri Barclay, 406-444-0753
Science Coordinator - Michelle McCarthy, 406-444-3537
Mathematics Coordinator - Marisa Graybill, 406-444-0706
Professional Learning Coordinator - Carli Cockrell, 406-444-0769
Teacher Learning Hub Coordinator - Jessica Bryant, 406-444-3557
Teacher Learning Hub Project Specialist - Allen Way, 406-444-4422
Professional Learning Data & Information Specialist - Marjorie O'Rourke, 406-444-3538
The OPI is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to people with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation, require an alternate format, or have questions concerning accessibility, contact the OPI ADA Coordinator, 406-444-3161, opiada@mt.gov, TTY 406-444-0235.
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