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This month’s edition of the Smarter News, the monthly newsletter from the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, one of the two testing consortia. If you’re in a Smarter Balanced state, this may be informative.
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CCSS Math – Resources for all State Standards
This site has resources arranged by standard. Looks like a potential gold mine!
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tweenteacher.com » What’s In a Name? – The Questionable Branding of the “Common” Core
Heather Wolpert-Gawron writes a great piece about the Core here. It is worth the read.
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6 NonFiction Children’s Book Awards–Finding NonFiction Texts for Common Core | English Language Arts
I think, for elementary ELA teachers, finding non-fiction texts can be challenging. (I say this as an elementary teacher myself.) Lists like this help a lot.
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A Letter About My View on the Common Core Learning Standards [Because
What really matters about the Common Core? Some interesting thoughts here. Definitely worth the read.
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A Librarian’s Tricks for Finding Those ‘Complex Texts’ Cited in the Common Core — The Digital Shift
A great post that isn’t just for teacher librarians. Instead it’s for educators anywhere charged with selecting texts to put in front of students. (Especially educators in our situation…working at schools without librarians.)
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