Common Core and 21st Century Learning

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"As you work to integrate Common Core standards into your classroom, it may help to look at sample lessons. In this set, you can see lessons, presentations, and assessments working with informational text (grades 3-5). Remember that you can search the site by grade level and common core standard and that other subject areas besides Common Core are included on the site." --Vicki Davis

Grade to Grade side-by-side changes in standards from year to year K-5 ELA

Past Webinars and some upcoming Webinars from Pearson

TOns of resources here

Not CCSS per se, but a good selection of classroom videos, and the math is NCTM aligned which is quite similar to current CCSS.

ADE's supporting documents for ELA. Starting point for curriculum work and PD.

helps with scaffolding and Common Core

Grades 3-12 English Language Arts. Contains frameworks of what the standards would look like throughout the school year. Great starting point in thinking about how classrooms will look different with Common Core.

Look up lexile measurement for any book.

Tennessee's academic vocabulary lists by grade level and content area. There are also great strategies for teaching academic vocabulary.

Video clips for specific content areas: business/IT/marketing, Engineering & Technology, Family and Consumer Science, Fine Arts, Health & Wellness, History/Social Studies, Physical Education, Science, Trade & Industrial

A rubric to measure the implementation of each of the math practices for a task or a teaching approach.

I really like the lesson plan template included on this link.

Archives of past common core webinars can be found here.

common core resources, videos examples

Big Idea # 1 - The Common Core Standards have new emphases and require a careful reading. Big Idea # 2 - Standards are not curriculum. Big Idea # 3 - Standards need to be "unpacked." When working with the Common Core, we recommend that educators "unpack" them into four broad categories - 1) Long term Transfer Goals, 2) Overarching Understandings, 3)  Overarching Essential Questions, and 4) a set of recurring Cornerstone Tasks. Big Idea # 4 - A coherent curriculum is mapped backwards from desired performances. Big Idea #5 - The Standards come to life through the assessments.