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Greetings to all of you who are interested in Common Core standards, instruction, and methods! This blog is for you! You may add to the content by forwarding your recommendation to me. Only the best will be posted. Thank you for your contributions and your interest in improving mathematics conceptual development for our students, and increasing literacy in English and writing!

Monday, February 17, 2014

Wonderful math curriculum guides by Engage NY (New York) and Common Core

Engage ny

These learning modules for  grades K-12 are wonderful!  Lessons include a fluency practice (called a "sprint"), lesson development with sides notes for good instruction, an exit ticket, and sometimes a homework assignment.   Great lessons, great instruction for developing conceptual understanding, without forgetting about fluency!

Sunday, June 16, 2013

The Khan Academy--an online library of over 3,000 math tutorial videos and more

The goal of the Khan Academy is to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anytime, and it is free.  Over 30,000 teachers have begun to utilize Khan Academy in the classroom, and over 6 million learners visit the site each month.  The data analytics and computer adaptive technology of the Khan Academy is a great resource for teachers.

The Khan Academy

Saturday, June 15, 2013

PARCC Assessment Prototypes

See examples of the PARCC assessments for your grade level.  Notice that they use drag-and-drop technology.  The tests will be computer adaptive.

task prototypes

Monday, February 11, 2013

Friday, January 25, 2013

expert Tim Shanahan on the Common Core

Shanahan on Literacy

Reading expert Tim Shanahan has lots to offer on the Common Core.  Notice that he has a book recommendation to help guide us as we address writing with the new standards.  

Saturday, December 22, 2012

PARCC technology guidelines for district online testing

PARCC has developed recommendations and guidelines for districts in the implementation of the new assessments using technology.  You can find the document here that details requirements:

PARCC's technology recommendations for online testing

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

LearnZillion Common Core Lessons

There are over 2000 lessons available on this website.  Thanks, Cheri Zullo, for the recommendation!

http://learnzillion.com/

School Librarians and the Common Core

livebinder link for librarians

Thanks, Doreen Brown, for sharing this livebinder from the PARCC site especially for school librarians!

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Unpacking the Standards

North Carolina has a grade by grade list for both ELA and Math.  I found it very helpful.  There is also a list of the text exemplars with links to websites to support those texts.

Unpacking the Standards-Math and ELA