Free seminars offered on Common Core State Standards

[Anonymous]

Discovery Education will hold a series of free professional development seminars for educators implementing the Common Core State Standards.

The seminars will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Jan. 29-31 at Discovery Communications, 1 Discovery Place. Silver Spring.

The sessions are as follows:

• Jan. 29: “Literacy and the Common Core in a Digital World,” offering English language arts instruction and assessment strategies to help develop digitally literate students for college, careers and citizenship.

• Jan. 30: “Teaching and Assessing Common Core Math in a Digital World” on standards for mathematical practice and their implementation with assessment strategies.

• Jan. 31: “Leadership Strategies to Support Digital Literacy and the Common Core,” which offers leadership approaches for administrators to help teachers implement digital literacy instruction and assessment.

Sessions will be led by Johnna Weller of Discovery Education.

For more information or to register, contact Shawnee Cohn at 240-662-2661 or [e-mail].