Idaho Librarians

Common Sense Media's Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum maps to a number of national and Common Core standards. Use these charts to identify the ways in which our lessons and units help meet the learning objective for your students. English Language Arts Common Core (ELA) American Association of School Librarians (AASL) International Society of Technology Education (ISTE)

Common Sense Media partnered with Teaching Channel to produce this series of nine videos spotlighting how our lessons meet critical ELA Common Core standards for middle school.

The Common Core: Idaho Educators Share Their Tips & Advice

To be ready for college, workforce training and life in a technological society, students need the ability to gather, comprehend, evaluate, synthesize, and report on information and ideas, to conduct original research in order to answer questions or solve problems, and to analyze and create a high volume and extensive range of print and non-print texts in media forms old and new

The sample items and performance tasks are intended to help teachers, administrators, and policymakers implementing the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and preparing for next-generation assessments. They provide an early look into the depth of understanding of the CCSS that will be measured by the Smarter Balanced assessment system. While the items and tasks are not intended to be used as sample tests, educators can use them to begin planning the shifts in instruction that will be required to help students meet the demands of the new assessments.

The following pages include tables that help school librarians learn how the AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner and the Common Core State Standards align.

n observation of National Bullying Prevention Month (October), Idaho Public Television has gathered together several collections of broadcast programs and online resources designed to raise awareness about how to prevent bullying.

A growing number of top-ranked U.S. colleges say they are finding objectionable material online that hurts the chances of prospective freshmen.

bout a quarter of admissions officers at the nation's top 500 colleges have used websites such as Facebook and Google to vet applicants, according to an annual Kaplan Test Prep survey. Of those, more than one-third say they have found something that has hurt a student's chance of admission, up from 12% last year.