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"Teachers know their students best. CommonLit is not a scripted curriculum - we provide high-quality materials, selected by teachers, to help professionals teach at the highest level. CommonLit is compatible with any curriculum or standards. Our goal is to challenge students to think deeply and answer important questions. We help teachers meet reading standards in every state. Engaged students learn more, do better on standardized tests, and become life-long readers. We help teachers get kids excited about the themes that run through life and literature."

According to the Standards, teachers must teach and students must learn using relevant technology that students will need to succeed beyond high school. 10 Tech Tools That Can Help!

"The ELA Common Core State Standards (CCSS)  suggest the use of more primary source materials in science and social studies classes.  I agree that this will bring some interesting experiences to class and expose kids to some historically important documents."

Media and publishing professionals know that infographics are hugely popular, and are more likely to be shared via social media than a standard blog post or article.

"21st century skills are an important consideration for every educator as we are striving to prepare today's students to become prepared for the competitive global market of tomorrow. This website seeks to provide a resource that allows educators an opportunity to easily navigate educationally relevant Web 2.0 tools, resources, and examples of standards alignment."

Services like CK-12 make it easy for teachers to assemble their own textbooks. Content is mapped to a variety of levels and standards including common core. You can start from scratch or build from anything the the FlexBooks library.

"Ben Rimes talks about connecting technology and Common Core standards.  Ben is passionate about technology in the classroom, digital storytelling, and social media."

This website will help you get started using OneNote and integrating it into your classroom with your students...very powerful tool. "With Microsoft OneNote, educators can create digital notebooks that support academic standards and outcomes across disciplines. Students may use OneNote across content areas and grade levels. OneNote also supports research, collaboration, information management, communication, note taking, journaling, and other academic requirements."

"Click and Choose. Drag and Drop. Edit and Play. That's Animaker - 10X Better than other Online Animation Video Making software (#DIY). Animaker is a simple animated video making app which helps a wide range of users to craft videos of studio standard without much training or external guidance."

"Each question in an OpenEd assessment has an instructional resource attached to it that is hand-picked to target that exact learning objective. Students take quizzes, then play videos/games to address knowledge gaps whenever they miss a question!" Here is a quick video on how to tie your Google Classroom to an OpenEd assessment: https://youtu.be/3BCUTuHDKzo

"Empower your students to think critically about data, ask meaningful questions, and communicate their conclusions." Conduct inquiry-based activities and lessons in Math, Science, and Social Studies topics aligned to the Common Core Content and Practice Standards.