{"id":2233,"date":"2012-10-18T17:36:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T17:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ccsprojects.com\/?p=247"},"modified":"2012-10-18T17:36:10","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T17:36:10","slug":"corefocus-interactive-solution-used-in-k-1-common-core-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ccsprojects.com\/corefocus-interactive-solution-used-in-k-1-common-core-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"CoreFocus Interactive Solution Used in K-1 Common Core Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Developed for Kindergarten to grade 1 classrooms, CoreFocus is a comprehensive digital content solution that enables teachers to immediately integrate an <a title=\"interactive whiteboard in classroom\" href=\"https:\/\/ccsmidatlantic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interactive whiteboard content solution into their classroom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Launched in June 2012 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smarttech.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SMART Technologies CoreFocus<\/a> is packed with more than 2500 research-based math and literacy lesson activities delivered in SMART Notebook collaborative learning software and\u00a0designed for the U.S. Common Core State Standards. It comes available in both Windows and Mac versions.<\/p>\n<p>CoreFocus comes with intelligent navigation software, which enables teachers to search content by skill level, to add content and to create lesson plans. Developed for child students aged 4-8 years old, the interactive activities of CoreFocus were built on research culled from classroom studies. The program implements approaches that are shown to be most effective in increasing the educational aptitude of early learners.<\/p>\n<p>Having SMART Technologies CoreFocus in the classroom is an added enhancement to learning. The interactive solution can help these young learners through the use of kinesthetic, auditory and visual methods, as well as engaging audio content that supports specific instruction.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/snd-store\/2254797\/original.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/snd-store\/2254797\/original.png\" alt=\"CoreFocus CCS Presentation Systems\" title=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nCoreFocus activities are designed to support skill progression and are organized by pre-emerging, emerging, developing and developed skill levels, with each activity aligned to the U.S. Common Core State Standards.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Some of the features of the SMART Technologies CoreFocus program include:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Easily find activities by standards alignment and add them to the activity calendar;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Utilize the built-in assessment tools, including question sets for the SMART Response interactive response system;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Track progress and collect data for individual students throughout the school year;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Browse content library by correlated curriculum standards and skill levels, and<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Use the keyword activity search to find activities for a specific theme or topic, developmental level or group size.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We\u2019re proud to be one of SMART Technologies resellers. Find out how we can complement your classroom setting with SMART software. Based in Scottsdale, Ariz., with 26 branch offices in a variety of states, <a href=\"https:\/\/ccsmidatlantic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CCS Presentation Systems<\/a> is one of the largest system integration firms in the U.S. We\u2019re one of the leading providers of audio video products and solutions in the nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developed for Kindergarten to grade 1 classrooms, CoreFocus is a comprehensive digital content solution that enables teachers to immediately integrate an interactive whiteboard content solution into their classroom. Launched in June 2012 by SMART Technologies CoreFocus is packed with more than 2500 research-based math and literacy lesson activities delivered in SMART Notebook collaborative learning software [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[46,31,177,178,34,104],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccsprojects.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccsprojects.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccsprojects.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccsprojects.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccsprojects.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ccsprojects.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccsprojects.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccsprojects.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccsprojects.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}