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__**Some Resources Related to the Common Core State Standards**__ Here are some links to materials that you might find useful as you become more familiar with the Common Core State Standards. There are many other resources that you can find on your own through a casual search, or through your own professional affiliations.

Common Core State Standards documents
@http://www.corestandards.org/assets/CCSSI_ELA%20Standards.pdf Literacy standards (reading and writing), K-12 for ELA and for History, Science, and Technical Subjects

@http://www.corestandards.org/assets/CCSSI_Math%20Standards.pdf Mathematics standards, K-12

@http://www.corestandards.org/assets/application-for-english-learners.pdf Common Core statement regarding English language learners

@http://www.corestandards.org/assets/application-to-students-with-disabilities.pdf Common Core statement regarding students with disabilities

Materials specific to New York City and New York State
@http://engageny.org/about/ A NYSED site for various constituencies to access and share resources related to the Regents Reform Agenda. The site includes links to a 15-part video series, six exemplar lessons, text samples, a glossary of key terms and background materials related to the Common Core Standards.

@http://www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/common_core_standards/ccstimeline.html NYS timeline for implementing the standards

@http://schools.nyc.gov/Academics/CommonCoreLibrary/Why/default.htm NYC Department of Education’s resources and roll-out of the Common Core

@http://schools.nyc.gov/Academics/CommonCoreLibrary/Toolkit/PD_Day New York City Department of Education resources to support implementation of the Common Core Learning Standards.

Materials from professional organizations and non-profits
@http://www.readwritethink.org/ Teacher resources from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)

@http://wpacouncil.org/framework Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing, from the Council of Writing Program Administrators, NCTE, and the National Writing Project

@http://insidemathematics.org/ A professional resource featuring classroom examples of innovative teaching methods and insights into student learning, tools for mathematics instruction that teachers can use immediately, and video tours of the ideas and materials on the site. Materials aligned with the CCSS.

@http://www.p21.org/ Partnership for 21st Century Skills. Includes CCSS Toolkit.

@http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2011/01/instruction_and_assessment_too.html Links to Gates Foundation papers and resources related to the CCSS.

@https://knowledgebase.newvisions.org/CustomTeamsIndividual.aspx?id=409 CCSS tasks and modules for literacy (and one for math).

@http://www.commoncore.org/free/ ELA curriculum maps aligned with CCSS. (Common Core is a non-profit organization formed in 2007.)

Assessment
[] PARCC is one of the two consortia tasked with creating the assessment instruments for the CCSS. There are videos and links here that provide a sense of their process. New York State will be using PARCC assessments.

[] This 90-page document provides the PARCC model content frameworks, identifying the big ideas behind the CCSS on each grade level, the focus of the various assessment components and assessment blueprints.

[|The Common Core State Standards and Teacher Preparation: The Role of Higher Education] A discussion paper from the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities focused specifically on science and mathematics.
 * Common Core and Higher Education**