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ProWriting Aid is an assistant writing coach that provides personalized feedback on students’ writing beyond spelling and grammar. Not only does ProWriting Aid reinforce what is being taught, but it also frees up time for teachers to dedicate to other tasks.

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All I do is Read, Read, Read... No Matter What!

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CommonLit is a collection of leveled passages, which allows for lessons to be tailored and student progress to be tracked. CommonLit provides supplemental reading passages and curriculum with text-dependent questions to improve students’ reading and writing skills. Teachers are able to analyze student performance and compare class reports on key reading and writing skills.

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Now What? Turn the text into a conversation.

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NowComment is a document-annotation and -discussion platform that allows students to mark up and discuss texts. Upload a document (in any number of formats) to create an online discussion area. Paragraphs for text are numbered, with the document shown on the left and the comment panel on the right. You can control when students can comment on a document and when they can see each others' comments. For group projects or peer-reviewed activities, you can have students upload their own documents.

So how is this platform different from any other discussion forum or annotation program? Students aren't simply reading a text or reading and annotating in isolation, they are sharing their ideas and having a discussion with each other. Ultimately, this is an opportunity for the development of higher level thinking through scaffolding, an opportunity to develop writing skills, and to have rich, engaging discussions of online documents.

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When there's so much to say and not enough time to say it.

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FlipGrid allows teachers to create discussion topics and students can respond with video recordings that peers can respond to keep the discussion going, freeing up class time. This tool helps students formulate their ideas in a pre-recorded setting, which means no one gets talked over or ignored by louder voices.

Still not sure how to use this tech tool effectively? Check out this short video highlighting 10 ways to Use FlipGrid.

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ClassLink is HOME - your starting point. Students, educators and leaders can find all of the apps used by our district. ClassLink has a single sign-on, so once you log in, you don't have a problem remembering log in information for every app/ website and can be accessed from any browser without the installation of software.  It includes several apps including:

PowerSchool

StudySync

Schoology

SmartFind Express (Sub system)

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State of Tennessee ELA Standards

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Access to subject and grade level curriculum guides

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Curriculum

School curriculum is based on the TN Department of Education State Curriculum Standards. TNReady Blueprints have been provided by the TN Dept. of Education in order to align instruction with assessment. The scope and sequence documents (curriculum maps) have been developed by Collierville Schools to guide teachers when developing instructional lessons.

Click HERE to preview adopted textbooks/curriculum used by Collierville Schools. To issue a complaint regarding prohibited concepts in accordance with Tenn. Code Ann. 49-6-1019(a), please complete this form and submit to the Curriculum and Accountability office at Curriculum@colliervilleschools.org.

To submit a reconsideration of a work, please complete this form and submit to Chief Academic Officer, Leigh Anne Rainey, at lrainey@colliervilleschools.org

Click HERE to preview summer work for courses offered at Collierville High School.

STEM

For information about STEM or the STEM Scholars program, please click here .

Family Life, Healthy Living

The Family Life, Healthy Living Curriculum is aimed at reaching life-long personal health and wellness skills such as building healthy interpersonal relationships, personal safety, goal-setting and decision-making and communicable disease prevention. The 2016-2017 school year will use a week-long curriculum that will cover all TN State Standards. The curriculum outlines are below.

The link to view the HIV/AIDS video shown ONLY to 6th Grade Students can be found here:

HIGH SCHOOL

Collierville High School offers:

Hands on experience for those students seeking real world employment opportunities with various community partners

Assistance to those students working towards utilizing the Tennessee Promise program

The option to take Dual Enrollment Classes in Science, Math, English, and Social Studies in collaboration with the University of Memphis

English

For English summer work for rising 9th-12th graders, please click here.

Social Studies

Social Studies Standards

Note: New Social Studies Standards will be implemented in the 2019-2020 school year.

For Social Studies summer work, please click here.

Science

Science Standards

Note: New Science Standards will be implemented in the 2018-2019 school year.

For Science summer work, please click here.

World Languages

World Languages Standards

For World Language summer work, please click here.

Mathematics

TN Mathematics Standards

For Math summer work, please click here.

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Collierville Schools is a district with 10 schools from Pre-K through 12th grade in Collierville, Tennessee.

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Kahoot! allows teachers and students to take a break from the monotony of taking notes and raising hands to answer questions. Kahoot! gives students an opportunity to show what they know in a fun and energetic way via games and quizzes. Teachers can also use Kahoot! as a formative assessment and can download reports in a spreadsheet.

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It's like Sesame Street for older students.

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Unlike a video found on YouTube, there are no inappropriate or uncomfortable ads that pop up. TED-Ed is not just a video, follow-up questions are available for students to reflect on their learning. Lessons range across ages and cover a wide variety of topics, including both curriculum-based and off-curriculum materials. There are even TedEd videos for ELA.

Check out on of my favorite videos to use when teaching dramatic irony, which is typically a difficult topic for students to grasp.