Tools and Resources
Discover new tools and materials to integrate into you instruction.
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Including Tier 2 Vocabulary Instruction in Curricular Materials
Building tier 2 vocabulary is critical to comprehending texts across content areas, yet it often receives insufficient attention in existing curriculum options. What can teachers do to fill the gap?
Creating a Coherent Math Curriculum
The Coherence Map can help you uncover gaps in understanding and find resources to supplement your instructional materials.
The EQuIP Review Process and Rubric
Achieve created a rubric and review process to facilitate peer reviews
Part 3
Working Together to Create Open Educational Resources
The K-12 OER Collaborative is working to create Common Core-aligned resources
Six Instructional Materials Articles You Should Be Reading
Keep up-to-date with the latest media coverage of instructional materials
Part 4
Publishing Review Results
Why Louisiana chose to share all its curricular reviews online and where you can see the findings
Teachers Create Lessons and Adaptations to Strengthen ELA Learning
Common Core-aligned resources for popular read-alouds, basal stories, and anthology selections
Part 2
Mathematics in the Common Core Classroom
A Kentucky teacher explains what the CCSS Math Shifts mean for classroom materials
Part 2
Open Educational Resources in Action
Washington's work to identify OER and put them to use in classrooms
Part 1
Introduction to Open Educational Resources
What are OER? Where can you find them? How should you use them?
Materials Adaptation, Research and Reflections, Standards-Alignment Information, Tools and Resources
Lament of a Review Team Member
Conducting a review was harder than expected, but it illuminated how critical this information is for publishers
Introduction to the Publishers’ Criteria for ELA/Literacy
Sue Pimentel, one of the lead writers of the Common Core, introduces the Publishers’ Criteria
Using What You Have
An introduction to supplementing and adapting instructional materials
Reviewing Is a Journey and the Benefits Aren’t What We’d Expected
Educators from Granite Falls uncovered benefits to reviewing that they hadn’t anticipated
How Reviewing Materials Changed My Classroom Practice
A teacher explains the unexpected connection she uncovered between materials reviews and the classroom
When to Use the IMET
When is the right time to use the IMET? Whether you’re purchasing, supplementing, designing, or simply building capacity, the IMET can help.
Why Not Just Crosswalk?
Reviewing instructional materials for CCSS alignment means looking for evidence of the Standards and the Shifts
Should We Bother with Other People’s Reviews?
As instructional materials reviews are made public, how should states and districts use that information?
Building the Right Review Team
Today’s review teams will function differently than review teams of the past, requiring new skills and experience
What My District Gained From Collaboration
Even when districts approach materials review processes from different perspectives – and with different objectives – collaboration provides important benefits
Searching for Aligned Materials Doesn’t Have to Be Lonely
Breaking district and state lines in the journey toward finding Common Core-aligned materials
Part 1
New Standards, New Approach to Reviews
Details Louisiana's instructional materials review process
Instructional Materials Evaluation Tool (IMET)
Designed by some of the lead writers of the Common Core, the IMET is a free tool that states and districts are using to evaluate the alignment of instructional materials to the Common Core
Why We Chose this Work
One district leader explains how joining the Instructional Materials Task Force offered an opportunity for collaboration, professional development and deeper clarity on the Standards
