teach21

Has some great ideas of how to incorporate information texts into the classroom.

quoted information from the page: "While English classes will still include healthy amounts of fiction, the standards say that students should be reading more nonfiction texts as they get older, to prepare them for the kinds of material they will read in college and careers. In the fourth grade, students should be reading about the same amount from "literary" and "informational" texts, according to the standards; in the eighth grade, 45 percent should be literary and 55 percent informational, and by 12th grade, the split should be 30/70."

Wow! Do I ever applaud the emphasis on reading for information. Why, kids could use reading trick to educate themselves for a lifetime, and in other disciplines - just imagine!

May 6 * Common Core's Curriculum Maps for ELA have exceeded 2 million page views. February 24 * Common Core's Lynne Munson writes on "What Students Really Need to Learn" in the lastest issue of ASCD's Educational Leadership. January 5 * Common Core's Curriculum Maps for English Language Arts have exceeded one million views.

I don't teach 10th grade...but I just looked at the map and it is entirely different than anything our school has ever addressed...

And, please know that our district is in the infancy stages of transitioning to the common core standards. Mrs. Groller and the principals have a plan for systematic implementation. So, nothing has been decided "exactly" at this point. Wonderful thing is . . . we are building the first conversations around common core for our district, pulling together a lot of great resources, with annotations thanks to Diigo I might add, and will be the most knowledgeable as we move forward. It's always good to be in that spot! At the end of this week, I'm going to blog about our teAch21 Diigo research project on the common core and share it with the rest of the staff. Keep up the good work everyone. You are learning and doing great things with Diigo!

Check out some of these teacher blogs that made it to this top 20 list. It's always helpful to see what other educators are doing in their blogs and provides some inspiration and ideas.

This will be our main source for awhile.

Changes are on the horizon for Pennsylvania's graduating class of 2015, as the Department of Education is implementing new graduation requirements, assessment tests and grade-level standards. Current standards include course completion and grades, completion of a culminating project and results of local assessments aligned with the academic standards.

Good news article that give a good overview of the common core standards and how they will be implemented in a few local school districts.

What is the Common Core Standards Initiative (CCSI) ? The CCSI is a common core of state standards in English-language arts and mathematics for grades K-12 developed by Governors and state commissioners of education from 48 states, 2 territories and the District of Columbia.

Common Core's Curriculum Maps in English Language Arts translate the new Common Core State Standards for Kindergarten through 12th grade into unit maps that teachers can use to plan their year, craft their own more detailed curriculum, and create lesson plans.

Blogging Tips

This is a wonderful post, Mary. And, it's a great blog overall . . . one that I'm going to add to my "Google Reader" and keep tabs on. Wondering what Google Reader is??? Well, here you go: http://www.google.com/support/reader/bin/answer.py?answer=113517

Cool Classroom Blogs

Great find! You can certainly find some inspiration from this great compilation of classroom blogs!

The Kto8 Curriculum has over 600 lessons. These lessons are organized into integrated and cross-curricular to maximize the effectiveness for your children. In addition to presenting and teaching a technology skill, each of these lessons has quiz that covers the main points of the lesson's technology objective.

Sue . . . this could be a valuable resource not only for your own lesson planning but also in your co-teaching endeavors.

This wiki includes resources for Common Core Curriculum work. Their crosswalk comparisons are available by clicking on either the "English Language Arts" or "Math" links to get a downloadable Excel spreadsheet. Arizona has recently revamped their Standards Page, and it now includes Crosswalks.

If you scroll over and click on the PA tab, you will be directed to the work that that Capital Area Intermediate Unit has done in the transitioning process to CC

See Resource Link for lots of ideas

I like how the page you linked to uses a Wordle to show the key content knowledge in the elementary common core maps.

lots of stuff

Although this site links to many other sites for classroom worksheets, it doesn't address the Common Core Standards. I've removed the commoncore tag and changed it to worksheets.

Kidblog.org is designed for elementary and middle school teachers who want to provide each student with an individual blog. Kidblog's simple, yet powerful tools allow students to publish posts and participate in discussions within a secure classroom blogging community. Teachers maintain complete control over student blogs.