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A Teacher's Guide to the Common Core: A Resource Guide f…
The purpose of this guide is to assist specialists and mainstream educators to engage in professional dialogues and practice…
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- 10/31/13
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Advancing Our Students' Language and Literacy: The Chall…
Article about text complexity by Marilyn Adams in American Educator magazine
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- 07/26/17
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Aligning Content and Practice: The Design of the Instruc…
Content-specific feedback is a critical part of a teacher’s professional development. The highest-impact feedback and professiona…
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- 09/11/13
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"Both And" Literacy Instruction
A Proposed Paradigm Shift for the Common Core ELA Classroom An "either-or" approach to concepts like close reading and volume of readi…
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- 02/10/15
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Building Knowledge: Research Supporting Shift 3
A summary of key research and relevant findings related to building knowledge.
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- 10/27/16
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Can parents help with math homework? YES
A guest post by Jason Zimba on the Fordham Instititute website edexcellence.net with examples of how parents can help students with mat…
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- 08/23/13
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CCSS Math Discussion Forum
A discussion forum on the blog maintained by CCSSM lead writer William McCallum. Includes rich discussions of the mathematical content …
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- 10/01/13
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CCSSM Wiring Diagram
A detailed graphic created by CCSSM lead writer Jason Zimba showing the connections among standards within and across grades K–8.…
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- 08/23/13
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Close Analytical Reading Through a Structured Journal: E…
Lifelong ELA teacher Meredith Liben offers a strategy drawn from her experience supporting students in close readings of texts.…
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- 12/17/13
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Common Core Fractions Progression Module
A 7 unit module from Illustrative Mathematics that presents the key ideas of the domain, Number and Operations – Fracti…
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- 10/27/16
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Common Core standards emphasize 'math that matters most'…
Interview on edsource.org of Jason Zimba.
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- 09/05/13
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Common Core State Standards Mathematics: The Relationsh…
Research by education professor Bill Schmidt provides evidence for the claim that successful implementation of the CCSS can improve stu…
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- 02/10/15
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Complex Text: Research Supporting Shift 1
A summary of key research and relevant findings related to complex text.
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- 09/05/13
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ELA / Literacy Appendix A: Research Supporting Key Eleme…
Research demonstrating that while the complexity of reading demands for college and careers have risen over the past 50 years, the comp…
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- 07/30/14
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ELA / Literacy Appendix B: Text Exemplars and Sample Per…
Exemplars of reading text complexity, quality, and range & sample performance tasks related to the Common Core State Standards…
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- 02/08/16
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ELA / Literacy Appendix C: Samples of Student Writing
Writing samples that have been annotated to illustrate the criteria required to meet the Common Core State Standards for particular typ…
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- 08/23/13
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Focusing on the High Impact Excerpts When Reading Full L…
High school social studies teacher David Reisenfeld describes his strategy for choosing texts for close reading lessons.
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- 05/20/15
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Framework for Close Reading
Detailed, step-by-step guide to preparing, implementing, and assessing close reading lessons by veteran educator David Liben.
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- 08/20/13
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How To Achieve Deep Understanding of a Complex Text
Middle school ELA and social studies teacher Joanna Hawkins discusses the thoughtful craftsmanship it takes for teachers to create deep…
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- 02/10/15
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Implementation - Issues With a Leveled-Only Text Approac…
The instructional approach of matching text difficulty levels to student ability levels is not directly addressed by the Standards…
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- 02/10/15
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Implementation - The Role of Close Reading
Close reading is an instructional approach strongly associated with the CCSS Shifts. It is designed to 1) help make students bette…
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- 09/05/13
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Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics
Using concrete examples from Liping Ma's famous book, mathematician Richard Askey explores what it takes to achieve deeper mathematics …
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- 08/23/13
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Lasting Achievement in Grades K–8: How Learning Lasts Ac…
CCSSM lead writer Jason Zimba describes the connections between key mathematical content from lower grades and how it connects to high …
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- 02/26/16
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Learning to Look
Learning to Look: How rigorous arts classrooms provide insight into teaching the Common Core State Standards.
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- 03/26/13
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Measures of Text Difficulty
A research study of text analysis tools that measure text complexity quantitatively. 58-pg PDF.
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- 08/23/13
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New Twists on an Old Standard
Jason Zimba, a CCSS lead writer, uses specific standards as examples to explain the ways in which the CCSS differ from traditional…
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- 05/27/15
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Observations on CCSSM Standards for Mathematical Content…
This document shows how the concept of focus in mathematics was built into the Common Core State Standards. It shows different ways you…
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- 09/05/13
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Phoenix Rising: Bringing the Common Core State Mathemati…
Berkeley mathematics professor, Hung-Hsi Wu, explores deficits in existing mathematics textbooks and teacher preparation and how the CC…
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- 04/27/17
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Practice What You Teach: Connecting Curriculum & Profess…
To improve teaching and advance student learning requires weaving together the curriculum that students engage with every day with the …
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- 08/23/13
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Progressions Documents for the Common Core State Standar…
The Common Core State Standards in mathematics were built on progressions: narrative documents describing the progression of a topic ac…
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- 08/23/13
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Publishers' Criteria for ELA/Literacy
Supports faithful implementation of the Common Core State Standards for ELA / Literacy by providing criteria for aligned materials. &nb…
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- 08/23/13
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Publishers' Criteria for Mathematics
Provides criteria for selecting, developing, or revising curricular materials, textbooks, and other resources at the high school level.…
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- 08/23/13
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Reaching the Goal: The Applicability and Importance of t…
Research on how applicable and important the CCSS are to entry-level college courses and entering the workforce. Scholarly article by e…
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- 09/05/13
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Reading Between the Lines: What the ACT Reveals about Co…
Based on data gathered from ACT results, this report focuses on steps to improve reading skills among high school students. Specificall…
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- 09/05/13
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Realizing Opportunities for English Learners in the Com…
Explores strategies for supporting ELL students in mastering Common Core literacy.
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- 09/05/13
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Reassessing U.S. International Mathematics Performance: …
AIR research study concludes that improved performance on international mathematics assessments requires building a strong mathematics …
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- 02/10/15
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Research Supporting the ELA Standards and Shifts
The following selected bibliography provides key research in two areas: Research which supports the Instructional Shifts demanded by…
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- 09/10/13
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Standards for Mathematical Practice
Describe varieties of expertise that mathematics educators at all levels should seek to develop in their students.
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- 09/05/13
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Supplement to Appendix A
New research on text complexity. Offers the official grade band ranges to use for text complexity along with explanations of how to mea…
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- 02/26/16
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Teaching Fractions According to The Common Core State St…
This is one person’s view of how the Common Core Standards on fractions in grades 3-7 may be taught. Students’ learni…
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- 10/27/16
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The Common Core and the Potential for Mathematicians to …
Article by Jason Zimba in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 63, Number 2, pp. 154–158.
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- 10/27/16
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The Development and Design of the Common Core State Stan…
As one of the lead writers of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, I begin by explaining what the standards are, what they …
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- 09/10/15
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The Developmental Appropriateness of the Common Core Sta…
One of the lead writers of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Jason Zimba, explains how the Standards are developmentally…
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- 04/04/13
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The Importance of Vocabulary and Syntax: Essay
Former teacher and principal David Liben explains the crucial role of vocabulary and syntax in teaching complex texts.
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- 04/03/13
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The Progression of Reading Comprehension
Policy paper for educators and researchers about the key components of fostering reading comprehension. By David Liben and P. David Pea…
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- 09/05/13
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The Role of Fiction in the High School English Language …
This article from the Huffington Post, written by lead authors of the CCSS David Coleman and Susan Pimentel, clarifies the role of fict…
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- 10/01/13
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The Structure is the Standards
An essay by CCSSM lead writers Phil Daro, William McCallum, and Jason Zimba that describes the importance of the structure of the Stand…
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- 08/23/13
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Thinking About Place Value in Grade 2
Thinking About Place Value in Grade Two explains and offers clear examples and non-examples of assessing conceptual unde…
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- 09/09/13
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Three Core Shifts to Deliver on the Promise of the Commo…
Three core shifts in literacy and math, deeply grounded in the Standards themselves, offer a way to focus implementation on the fe…
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- 04/05/13
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Three Pillars of First Grade Mathematics
Mathematician Roger Howe explains coherence and conceptual mathematics in the CCSS using the example of 1st grade math. 8-pg PDF.
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- 08/20/13
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Transitioning to the Common Core
High school social studies teacher Lyn Cannaday's account of why the transition to the Common Core in her urban school was difficult, b…
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- 10/01/13
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Units, a Unifying Idea in Measurement, Fractions, and Ba…
Jason Zimba, a CCSS lead writer, discusses how the ideas of “times as much” fit in with other important domains.
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- 02/10/15
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Using Evidence from Text: Research Supporting Shift 2
A summary of key research and relevant findings related to using evidence from text.
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- 07/18/14
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Vocabulary and the Common Core
Vocabulary research paper and 4 practice exercises for teachers, coaches, and school leaders to use in PD or self-teaching on voca…
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- 06/04/15
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What Common Core State Standards Say (and DON’T Say) abo…
This document explains exactly what the Common Core expects of kindergarten students in ELA/literacy. It defines key terms and clarifie…
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- 06/04/15
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What Do the Common Core State Standards for ELA/Literacy…
This document debunks about the kindergarten ELA/literacy Standards. It explains the reasons these myths have taken hold and offe…
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- 08/20/13
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Which Words Do I Teach and How?
2-pg article providing guidance on vocabulary instruction by lifelong teacher and principal David Liben. Excerpted from the longer rese…
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- 08/20/13
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Why Complex Text Matters
Essay on ACT research finding that the ability to read and understand complex text is the best way to distinguish students who are coll…