Center for Excellence and Equity in Teacher Preparation
Common Core State Standards Resources
Professional Resources
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- Council of the Chief State School Officers
- Professional Development ELA Modules
- Common Core Implementation Video Series
- Common Core Implementation and Resources Guide
- Aspen Education and Society Program Digital Resource Library
- Southeast Comprehensive Center CCSS Videos
- Two 30-second Public Service Announcements (one in English and one in Spanish) explaining the Common Core Standards
- Two three-minute videos (one in English and one in Spanish) explaining the Common Core Standards
- AACTE webinar series on resources and tools for the Common Core
- School Improvement Network and Common Core Strategy of the Week
Curriculum Resources & Videos
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- Curriculum Development Tools
- Teaching the Core (The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust funded the development of this collection of classroom videos and associated lesson materials to help K-12 educators implement the instructional shifts required by the Common Core State Standards. Each videotaped lesson includes descriptive annotations that identify lesson elements and teacher and student actions and behaviors that support Common Core learning.)
- Common Core State Standards for ELA & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects. Appendix B: Text Exemplars and Sample Performance Tasks
- English Language Arts
- Resources for Common Core State Standards in Social Studies
- Common Core ELA Instructional Samplers
- Delaware Writing Project 2011 Summer Institute lessons aligned to Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts
- Delaware Reading Cadre Vocabulary Modules
- Instructional Units for Grades 4-11 aligned to Common Core State Standards developed by the University of Delaware and the Delaware Department of Education
- Academic Vocabulary and the CCSS
- The Academic Word List (AWL)
- IES Practice Guide for Improving Reading Comprehension, Grades K-3
- From the Page to the Classroom: Implementing the Common Core Standards in English Language Arts and Literacy
- Classroom tools for adapting basal texts to the rigor of the Common Core in English language arts and literacy
- Common Core Appendix A : Text Complexity and Supplement
- Mathematics
- Languages
- “The Common Core Framework and World Languages: A Wake-up Call for All” by Audrey L Heining-Boynton and Mary Lynn Redmond
- Science
- Next Generation Science Standards (http://www.nextgenscience.
org/) - NGSS@NSTA (http://ngss.nsta.org/) — Information on NGSS for teachers by the National Science Teachers Association
- Next Generation Science Standards (http://www.nextgenscience.
- Social Studies
- LearnZillion 2000+ high quality lessons by top teachers, all built from the Common Core State Standards
- BetterLessons – >3000 lesson plans aligned to the Common Core
- Khan Academy Common Core resources—Khan Academy has free online resources and exercises that align with the Common Core and that can be personalized to the needs of individual students.
Assessment
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- Assessing Early Learning through Formative Assessment
- Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) video “How the Assessment Consortia are Influencing Common Core Implementation in the States”
- Information on field tests of the Common Core State Standards assessments developed by the Smarter Balanced consortium
- Smarter Balanced field test: http://www.smarterbalanced.org/field-test/
- Smarter Balanced practice test: http://www.smarterbalanced.org/practice-test/
- Archived webinar “Getting Ready for the Assessment Consortia Field Tests”: http://all4ed.org/webinar/mar-20-2014/(transcript of the webinar also provided)
- One-page summaries of the assessments: http://www.k12center.org/
- A Primer on Common Core–Aligned Assessments —Education First developed a briefing for state policymakers and advocates about Common Core–aligned assessment systems, including Smarter Balanced. The presentation can be found at http://www.education-first.
com/files/A_Primer_on_Common_ Core-Aligned_Assessments_ Education_First.pdf.
Parent Resources
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- (English) K-12 Parent Guides for the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts/Literacy
- (Spanish) K-12 Parent Guides for the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts/Literacy
- (English) K-12 Parent Guides for the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics
- (Spanish) K-12 Parent Guides for the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics