New Social Studies The new Social Studies standards that were adopted by the state last Spring are now loaded into Curriculum Manager for your teachers to use and align to their units of instruction! You will find the Standards
ESSA Basics PowerPoint
ESSA Basics PowerPoint Kathleen McCreery from California ASCD sent the following link. Kathy is a great friend of MISIC and has been helping organize the California version of our C3 Cadres in her state. ASCD has created a PowerPoint presentation on
2016 Best Practices in Social Studies Institute
2016 Best Practices in Social Studies Institute – Registration is now open! Please see the invitation below for an opportunity being offered for Social Studies teachers this summer. This was shared with us by Stefanie Wager, the social studies consultant
NEW NGSS Document Released – Accelerated Pathways
NEW NGSS Document Released – Accelerated Pathways During the MISIC fall regional meetings it was mentioned that a new Next Generation Science Standards resource would soon be available that targeted how to accelerate instruction for our top students. That document was
Free Newsletter for Science
Achieve and the National Science Teachers Association sponsor a monthly newsletter about the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). This is a great newsletter for anyone interested in implementing the science standards. Past issues of the newsletter are available. You can
How does the ELA Core Relate to the Early Grades?
In a recent webinar hosted by the Council of Chief School Executive Officers David Liben from Student Achievement Partners (SAP) and Kyle Snow from the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) discussed how the standards, specifically grades
Using MAP Data – Webinars
If you give the web-based MAP test from NWEA, please see the message below about some new resources MISIC has available for you. As we begin another school year, that also means another season of MAP testing. With that, we
Curriculum Manager – Storage Upgrade
Attention Curriculum Manager Users- We are in the process of upgrading the Curriculum Manager servers and more than doubling that amount of storage space available for the program. During this transition it is IMPERATIVE that you do not UPLOAD any