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I attended a workshop about PARCC and middle school math at the NJ Principals and Supervisors Association in March 2014. The presentation was made by people from TMI Education, and these links are from their presentation.

The NJ DOE Office of Assessment prepared this slide show about the Spring 2014 NJ ASK. This document is a PDF version of their PowerPoint, and its relevant sections will be shared with you at CPT and department meetings.

Ready to turn math instruction on its head?

This is a booklet published by Louisiana's department of education. It is valuable for ECR questions and discussion of the mathematical practices.

Do you ask your students to show their work? Should they? This article has an interesting perspective.

I ask them too because I teach alg, these problems become more complicated as the year moves on and they need to write their steps down because there are multiple steps. The ones that have been doing it in their heads for years suddenly cant seem to do that anymore and find themselves in a tricky situation because they don't know how to show their work.

This is an interesting look at how Americans have led the way in developing math instruction but not following through on it (according to the NY Times author).

Nice EdWeek article and video with many links about how teaching of fractions has changed because it is considered integral to math skills.