School Improvement in Maryland

What Do High School 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?

Welcome, Teachers

from Leslie Wilson, Asst. State Superintendent

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This section of the site was developed to support your efforts in providing a quality education to Maryland students. The VSC Toolkits contain over 3,000 resources to support you in the classroom. Let us know what you find useful and what changes you would like to see. You may want to bookmark this page as your mdk12.org homepage.

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Teacher Resources

Websites with useful teaching and learning resources.

ASCD

Thinkfinity

NEA

NCTM

NCTE

NSTA

NCSS

Arts Edge

Item of the Week

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

Practice Scoring HSA

English

Government

Biology

Algebra/Data Analysis

Data Explorer

Learn how to read and analyze your school's performance on HSA and AYP.

AYP Reading • AYP Mathematics

Safe Harbor

Confidence Interval

Toolkit

Access more than 1300 Lesson Plans, Prerequisite Skills, Public Release Items to support classroom instruction.

Core Learning Goals Toolkit

VSC

CLG

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“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