School Improvement in Maryland

What Do Teachers Need To Know?

Teaching Maryland Standards

Understanding State Assessments

Analyzing Data Results

  • What can I learn from analyzing my school's performance on state assessments? • MSA • HSA • AYP
  • What can I learn from examining my students' performance? - Coming Soon

Welcome, Teachers

from Leslie Wilson, Asst. State Superintendent

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Teacher Resources

Websites with useful teaching and learning resources.

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Thinkfinity

NEA

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NCTE

NSTA

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Arts Edge

ED SITEment

Xpeditions

PBS Teachers

Read Write Think

Item of the Week

Every week you'll find new sample questions to test your child’s readiness for the Maryland assessments.

Data Explorer

How MSDE uses a Confidence Interval

Reading your AYP Reading Data

Reading your AYP Math Data

Toolkit

Access more than 2300 Lesson Plans, Prerequisite Skills, Public Release Items to support classroom instruction.

Core Learning Goals Toolkit

English

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Biology

Algebra/Data Analysis

“By thinking differently about how education can be provided, how teachers can be cultivated, how children can learn, we are creating a world-class educational model.”

—Nancy S. Grasmick
Maryland State Superintendent