Common Sense for the Common Core: A Roundup of Resources (weekly)

• Education Week: Common Standards: The Professional-Development Challenge in Math

  An archive of a live chat held last week. A great discussion about math and the Common Core.

  tags: CCSS commoncore math mathematics

• Shorts | Burkins & Yaris

  Are you following the Burkins & Yaris blog yet? You should be. Every post is an insightful look at some aspect of the ELA Common Core. This post asks whether shorter texts should play a part in reading instruction. Their answer? A resounding “yes.”

  tags: commoncore CCSS ELA reading

• CCSS-CTE-Task-Alignment-Packet.pdf

  The move to performance task-based assessment will be a huge shift for many schools. This guide offers a means of assisting teachers in creating rigorous, CCSS-aligned performance tasks.

  tags: commoncore math CCSS

• CCSS Tip Sheets from ODE « Turn On Your Brain

  Useful tip sheets provided and summarized here for school boards, superintendents, principals and teachers for implementation of the CCSS. I wonder how many schools/districts haven’t even started yet. Hopefully not many.

  tags: commoncore implementation CCSS

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