How are college- and career-ready standards, including the Common Core, different from other academic standards? The Shifts provide a frame that describes how these standards raise expectations across multiple areas of students’ educational experience including instructional materials, classroom practice, and assessment. The Shifts illustrate how college- and career-ready standards contribute to transformative changes in the classroom that will better prepare students for opportunities after high school.
Professional development modules to better understand the Shifts
1. Complexity: Practice regularly with complex text and its academic language.
2. Evidence: Ground reading, writing, and speaking in evidence from text, both literary and informational.
3. Knowledge: Build knowledge through content-rich nonfiction.
1. Focus strongly where the standards focus.
2. Coherence: Think across grades and link to major topics within grades.
3. Rigor: In major topics, pursue conceptual understanding, procedural skill and fluency, and application with equal intensity.
Quick reference card summarizing the biggest changes in math and ELA / literacy.
A document explaining the biggest changes in mathematics and ELA / Literacy. 2-pg PDF.