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This is the NJ ASK information booklet that is sent home with students. It is produced by the NJ Department of Education, and it has information about the NJ ASK as well as sample items.

How do you know if your students are meeting the standards? The Evidence Statements from PARCC will help you determine whether or not your students are making progress toward the PARCC assessments.

Are your students stressed-out about learning? This article discusses how students learn better when content and activities are relevant to their lives. Very good Edutopia article.

ERB may just have the online solution to student writing practice for PARCC. It's a subscription service, but worth investigating.

Try PARCC test questions live online! This is a peek into the future, and it should help us understand how to prepare students for the testing environment they will encounter beginning in the spring of 2015.

Danielson for students? The PARCC Performance Level Descriptors are rubrics related to the CCSS and PARCC "claims." This might give you a great sense of how your instruction is meeting the goals of CCSS.

Achieve the Core is the website for Student Achievement Partners. This is a non-profit group dedicated to helping us all understand and use the Common Core State Standards effectively in our teaching.

Want to try a PARCC test yourself? Maybe your students need a little preview of coming attractions? This page should allow you to access the various PARCC samples and practice tests. Note: Many pages on the PARCC site are constantly changing, so let me know if this link no longer works.

Nice description of instructional shifts and how parents can help their children with Common Core instructional changes.

Scholastic has quality resources, and this overview of the Common Core's mathematical practices is an excellent source of information and links. If you want to ensure your expectations are high enough to prepare students for PARCC testing, this page is a useful start.

NYC's DOE put together a comprehensive and searchable set of sample problems that teachers can use to step-up the rigor in math class. This page allows you to use keywords, grade level and subject to filter results.

While this site is not the easiest to navigate, it has a wealth of information. Keep an eye out for the PLDs (Performance Level Descriptors) for each grade level (3-8). These will help guide your instruction as you move your students toward PARCC success. Use this link to get to the PLDs: scroll down and click math or language arts to see the grade level links you want. If you want to print the PLDs for a grade level, make sure you've got the paper tray full in your printer--some of them are over 30 pages long.