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A veritable cornucopia of CCSS resources and information. Bay Shore High School also offers up a model of how a simple wikispaces wiki can make school-wide collaboration a snap.
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Featured Common Core LiveBinders
Livebinders are great ways to organize content. There are scads of them being created about the CCSS. Here are a few.
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Standards, Teachers, and Curriculum | Alliance for Excellent Education
An update on where the CCSS stands now…and a look at where it might be headed thanks to Race to the Top grants in three states.
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Here’s an example of a 21st Century way to address Speaking and Listening anchor standards.
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Core Math Tools is a downloadable suite of interactive software tools for algebra and functions, geometry and trigonometry, and statistics and probability. The tools are appropriate for use with any high school mathematics curriculum and compatible with the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics in terms of content and mathematical practices. Java required.
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Student Friendly Posters to Illustrate the CCSS mathematical practices
Might help students and teachers alike! Really clarifies what each of the practices calls for.
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Seven Useful Common Core State Standards Resources | Yummy Math
A great collection for math teachers.
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Why The Common Core Might Not Be Classroom-Ready | StateImpact Indiana
Could the need for billions in professional development be the CCSS’s Achilles heel?
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Is there anything “common” left in Common Core?
From the article, which highlights the divisive turn conversations about the Core have taken: “The debate over the Common Core is now caught up in a larger fight about the merits of education reform writ large. In this increasingly toxic environment, Common Core has become one more conspiracy to uncover, one more grand scheme for the fringe on the right and left to fight against.”
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What do ninjas and the Common Core have in common? You’d be surprised.
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7-Actions that teachers can take right now re: Text-Complexity
I found this helpful for thinking about dealing with the CCSS demands regarding text complexity.
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Hawaii Standards Database :: Common Core State Standards
The group of states with high-quality CCSS resource collections continues to grow. Came across this site from Hawaii this week and it looks good. I still wish that there was a common resource site for all states (it only make sense with the “common” core, right?) but right now, there isn’t. I also wish every state was offering as much as states like Hawaii, Kansas, North Carolina, and others.
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Buyer Beware | Burkins & Yaris
So wary of publishers that claim to be “aligned” to the CCSS. How is that possible when we don’t know what the assessments look like?
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Alfie Kohn is a thought leader that I really respect. His opinions always seem to resonate with me. I’m curious to dig into this interview to find out what he thinks about the CCSS. He certainly has some criticisms of national standards that are worthy of consideration.
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I.N.K.: There’s a Sea-Change Coming to Education
Great interview with professor Myra Zarnowski of Queens College about nonfiction and the Common Core state standards. I.N.K. (Interesting Non-Fiction for Kids) is a great blog by non-fiction authors…a good one to follow!
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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