Overview Materials - Curriculum Designers
The Impact of Common Core State Standards on Curriculum Design
- Illuminating Standards Video Series – What would it look like if standards were met with depth, and imagination? The Illuminating Standards Project, a collaborative project of Expeditionary Learning and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, showcases a video collection of long-term, interdisciplinary, arts-infused, community-connected projects illustrating how to make standards come alive in project-based learning. The videos could be used in a professional development setting to have staff examine the relationship between meeting the demands of state standards and the creation of powerful learning experiences for students. (centerforstudentwork.elschools.org)
- Connecticut Common Core Standards Toolbox — This Power Point presentation explains the EQuIP review process, Classroom Look Fors and how to assess and debrief classroom lessons.
- What Makes Instruction Aligned - The Instructional Practice Guide suite of tools focus not on every pedagogical move in the classroom, but on the specific actions teachers and students take to address the Key Shifts required by the Standards. To understand aligned practice, you must first understand the Key Shifts. (achievethecore.org)
- Building Knowledge – provides resources for exploring the shifts required by the Common Core State Standards as well as a link to the Text Set Project. (achievethecore.org)
- Finding Overlap in the Common Core Math, Language Arts, and National Science Standards (Education Week, October 2014)
- A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas – by the National Research Council, 2012 offers free electronic access to the NRC Report upon which the NGSS were based. It is recommended reading for teachers trying to understand NGSS. (nap.edu)
- The Coherence Map shows the connections between Common Core State Standards for mathematics. It illustrates how to build student understanding by linking together concepts within and across grades, identifies gaps in a student’s knowledge by tracing a standard back through its logical pre-requisites, and helps the teacher to visualize and understand how supporting standards relate to the major work of the grade. Standards are illustrated with tasks, lessons, and assessments, as well as excerpts from the Progressions documents. (achievethecore.org)
- Relationships and Convergences—a Venn Diagram which shows how the practice standards overlap in Math, Language Arts, and Science (ell.stanford.edu)
Common Core State Standards
ELA/LITERACY
- Common Core State Standards and Appendices for English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science and Technical Subjects (corestandards.org)
- Spanish Language Version of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/ Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects (commoncore-espanol.sdcoe.net)
- English Language Arts K-5 Standards Progression (PCG in collaboration with the Connecticut State Department of Education)
- English Language Arts 6-12 Standards Progression (PCG in collaboration with the Connecticut State Department of Education)
- Core Content Connectors identify the most salient grade-level, core academic content in ELA and Mathematics found in both the Common Core State Standards and the Learning Progression Frameworks. CCCs illustrate the knowledge and skills needed at each grade to promote success at the next, and identify priorities in each content area to guide instruction. (ncscpartners.org)
- Teaching Channel Videos:
MATH
- Common Core State Standards and Appendix for Mathematics (corestandards.org/math)
- Spanish Language Version of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (commoncore-espanol.sdcoe.net)
- Mathematics K-2 Standards Progression (Hawaii DOE)
- Mathematics 3-5 Standards Progression (Hawaii DOE)
- Mathematics 6-8 Standards Progression (Hawaii DOE)
- Conceptual Category Progressions- Traditional Pathways
- Core Content Connectors identify the most salient grade-level, core academic content in ELA and Mathematics found in both the Common Core State Standards and the Learning Progression Frameworks. CCCs illustrate the knowledge and skills needed at each grade to promote success at the next, and identify priorities in each content area to guide instruction. (ncscpartners.org)
- This 14 minute video introduces the Common Core State Standards for Math (teachingchannel.org)
- Illustrating the Standards for Mathematical Practice—NCSM, learning modules (mathleadership.org)
EQuIP Resources for Common Core Alignment
ALL SUBJECTS
- EQuIP e-Learning Modules - The purpose of this e-Learning module is to develop the learner's knowledge and understanding of the EQuIP Quality Review Process, which is designed to increase the ability of educators – and educational leaders – to identify and create quality instructional materials aligned to the Common Core State Standards. Specifically, learners will explore what effective observations and criterion-based feedback look like and experience the process of reviewing instructional materials using the EQuIP Quality Review criteria, rating scales, and rating descriptors. (achieve.org)
- The EQuIP Student Work Protocol is designed to establish or articulate the relationship between student work and the quality and alignment of instructional materials that previously have been reviewed using the EQuIP quality review process. Focusing on this relationship enables educators to develop a common understanding of the challenging work required by the CCSS. (achieve.org)
- An Introduction to the EQuIP Rubric – This webinar explores the development of the EQuIP rubric, how teachers use it to improve their practice and transition to the Common Core, and resources available to help teachers make this transition. (LearnZillion and Achieve)
- Strengthening Lessons for the Common Core – This video explores the role of the EQuIP rubrics in instructional planning, calibration and what teachers might learn from evaluating lessons together. (Achieve and Teaching Channel)
- EQuIP: Educators Evaluating the Quality of Instructional Products (achieve.org)
ELA/LITERACY
- EQuIP Rubric for Lessons & Units: ELA/Literacy Grades K-2 (achieve.org)
- EQuIP Rubric for Lessons and Units: ELA/Literacy (Grades 3-5) and ELA (Grades 6-12) (achieve.org)
- Peer Review in Action: The ELA EQuIP Rubric – This video introduces a Student Work Protocol to evaluate an ELA/Literacy lesson using the EQuIP rubric. (Achieve and Teaching Channel)
MATH
- EQuIP Rubric for Lessons & Units: Mathematics (achieve.org)
- Peer Review in Action: The Math EQuIP Rubric – This video shows a group of educators evaluating a math lesson using the EQuIP rubric (Teaching Channel in collaboration with Achieve)
- Understanding Quality and Alignment: EQuIP Mathematics – This video provides an overview of Achieve’s EQuIP collaborative and the Tri-State Rubrics for evaluating the quality of instructional materials. (achieve.org/EQuIP)
SCIENCE
- EQuIP Rubric for Lessons & Units: Science – The NGSS EQuIP rubric describes a set of criteria for high-quality science lessons and units.
- What can the EQuIP Rubric Do For You? – This blog hosted on Teaching Channel provides an in-depth discussion of the NGSS EQuIP rubric as well as links to websites and resources to facilitate implementation of NGSS in the classroom.
- NGSS Video Series –This video series, produced through a collaboration between Achieve and Teaching Channel, helps educators gain a deeper understanding of the features and shifts that are inherent in the NGSS. Videos showcase explicit “look-fors” used to evaluate the quality of instructional materials using the NGSS EQuIP rubric.
Common Core Implementation for All Students—Curriculum Considerations
- NEA - How Educators Can Advocate for English Language Learners: ALL IN! 2015 Advocacy Guide (nea.org and colorincolorado.org)
- An Innovative High School CCSS Lesson for ELLS: Letters from John Smith – This blog posted on colorincolorado.org by Diane Staehr Fenner describes some innovations that provide strategies for all teachers of ELLs. (colorincolorado.org)
- Using Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) to Implement Common Core—a white paper that encourages schools to embrace the needs of ALL students, and recommends implementing the standards within a framework of a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) to help ensure that all students succee (cgcs.org)
- Understanding Language—Language, Literacy, and the Content Areas–Teaching resources that exemplify quality instruction for ELLs across three content areas: English Language Arts, Mathematics, and the Next Generation Science Standards. (ell.stanford.edu)
- Linking Assessment with Reading Instruction for ELL Students (lexile.com)