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LIVE BINDER: ELA Common Core State Standards Resources. Core Strategies for Innovation and Reform in Learning. Edutopia's Comprehensive List of CC Resources. Parents' Guide to the CCSS. Currently, each state has a separate set of education standards, lists of skills that students are expected to do by the time they graduate each grade.

Parents' Guide to the CCSS

However, in response to concerns about American student achievement and just how prepared students are for college and careers, education leaders in 48 states, along with the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), have written a set of standards for student across the U.S. Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity. LearnZillion CC aligned ELA and math. LIVEBINDERS CCSS for Mathematics. Common Core Resource Guide.pdf. Common Core Support Tools. Below you will find unpacking standards documents to support teachers in their understanding of the common core and essential standards.

Common Core Support Tools

The unpacking documents demonstrate at a granular level the knowledge and skills students are expected to master at a particular grade. Important Note: The current Standard Course of Study will continue to be taught and tested during the 2010-11 and 2011-12 school years. New standards and assessments are to be implemented for the first time beginning with the 2012-13 school year. Please send any thoughts, feedback, questions and ideas about additional resources that would help you start preparing to teach the new standards to feedback@dpi.nc.gov.

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PARCC Assessment System and ELA, Part 2 « PARCC in Massachusetts. In Part 1 on the PARCC assessment system I tried to walk through, though somewhat briefly, a general sense of the design principles and the general architecture of the assessment system.

PARCC Assessment System and ELA, Part 2 « PARCC in Massachusetts

In this post I am going to try to convey what I learned specifically about the design of the ELA assessment and review the general evidence-centered design principle. Below is the picture of evidence-centered design construction: Evidence-Centered Claims Driving Design of ELA Assessment The ELA assessment has a broad set of claims about what students should know and be able to do that should be supported by the evidence collected through the assessment tasks. These claims are intended to support the intent of the PARCC assessment system’s larger function of determining if students are on-track or ready for college and careers. Broad ELA/Literacy Task Types. Common Core Essentials - Home.

Livebinder: CC and 21st C skills. LiveBinder- CC. PARCC updates (RI Info) Ohio Academic CC Standards. Links to CC Analyses and Research. 50 Important Links for Common Core Educators. Educators across the nation are working hard this summer to begin developing updated curricula that will fit into the new Common Core State Standards, which will be fully applied in 45 U.S. states (Texas, Alaska, Nebraska, Virginia, and Minnesota have opted out of statewide participation) by 2015.

50 Important Links for Common Core Educators

Yet despite the hubbub about the new standards, which were created as a means of better equipping students with the knowledge they need to be competitive in the modern world, many teachers still have a lot of unanswered questions about what Common Core will mean for them, their students, and their schools. Luckily, the Internet abounds with helpful resources that can explain the intricacies of Common Core, offer resources for curriculum development, and even let teachers keep up with the latest news on the subject.

We’ve collected just a few of those great resources here, which are essential reads for any K-12 educator in a Common Core-adopting state. All Things Common Core. Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! Resources for Understanding the Common Core State Standards. The Hunt Institute. Common Core Implementation Video Series To further aid states as they continue to implement the Common Core State Standards (Standards), the Hunt Institute and the Council of Chief State School Officers have commissioned a series of video vignettes that explain the Standards in far greater depth.

The Hunt Institute

Several of the key Standards writers were asked, in their own words, to talk about how the Standards were developedand the goals they set for all students. These videos were developed to help diverse groups – educators, policymakers, parents – better understand the breadth and depth of the Standards and how they will improve teaching, make classrooms better, create shared expectations, and cultivate lifelong learning for all students.

The segments are organized into separate Mathematics and ELA sections, and demonstrate critical concepts related to each. States, schools, districts and teachers can use these videos in a number of ways—including, but not limited to: The Hunt Institute. Customizable Developmental Continuum fo all CC Standards. 1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

Customizable Developmental Continuum fo all CC Standards

Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. (show more) Print many upper- and lowercase letters. Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs. Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes). Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how). Kanaal van TEDEducation. What Is Educational Publishers' Role in Developing Common Core? - Marketplace K-12.

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What Is Educational Publishers' Role in Developing Common Core? - Marketplace K-12

21stcenturyprojects_ebook. Over 300 LiveBinders on Common Core. Common Core Online. Mentoring Minds $$ Mentoring Minds' Common Core Standards & Strategies K-12 Math and ELA Flip Charts on your iPad!

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Our Common Core Standards & Strategies K-12 Math and ELA Flip Charts are available on your iPad through the iTunes App Store! At your fingertips and through your mobile device, our flip chart provides you with strategies for the delivery of effective instruction pertaining to the new Math and ELA Standards. We also include clarifying activities so you know how best to utilize the content in your classroom. Enroll in Apple's Volume Purchase Program (ASVPP) to buy in bulk. Common Core Online. 50 Important Links for Common Core Educators. EduCore - Tools for Teaching the Common Core - ASCD.

CC and 21st C Skills P2P CommonCoreToolkit.pdf. Tools for the Common Core Standards. Phil Daro, Bill McCallum, Jason Zimba A Grecian urn You have just purchased an expensive Grecian urn and asked the dealer to ship it to your house. He picks up a hammer, shatters it into pieces, and explains that he will send one piece a day in an envelope for the next year.

You object; he says “don’t worry, I’ll make sure that you get every single piece, and the markings are clear, so you’ll be able to glue them all back together. I’ve got it covered.” 10 Common Core Resources. Webinars: Key Shifts ELA and Math from Achieve the Core. +Pathways+to+the+Common+Core+-+July+2012. Common Core Curriculum Mapping Project: ELA. Symbaloo (60 CC links) Multimedia Resource Center. Common Core Standards: Lessons, Ideas, and Discussions #ccchat. Common Standards Ignite Debate Over Prereading. Published Online: April 24, 2012 Published in Print: April 25, 2012, as Common Standards Ignite Debate Over Student 'Prereading' Exercises Sparked by the Common Core State Standards, teachers and literacy experts are arguing about the role of a time-honored pillar of English/language arts instruction: classroom activities designed to help students understand what they are about to read.

Common Standards Ignite Debate Over Prereading

The attacks on—and defenses of—"prereading" are unfolding largely in cyberspace, through online forums, blogs, and email exchanges. CC Achievement Strategy Site. The Most Useful Resources For Implementing Common Core — I Hope You’ll Contribute More. (NOTE: Readers have begun to contribute some excellent ideas in the comments. I’ll get around to adding them to the body of this post but, until then, be sure to review the comments, too!) I’m obviously not a real big fan of Common Core standards, and am a bit skeptical about its practical impact on what happens in the classroom. Nevertheless, they’re here, and I thought it would be useful to readers and to me to begin to collect some practical and helpful tools. I’m starting off with a few today, and hope readers will contribute a whole lot more — for all subjects and grade levels. You might also be interested in these other lists: Common-core-resources.