Math!

Here is a great website that really relates math to Real life concepts.

However, I do want to assume that there is NO RISK to eating bacon sandwiches. Because...yum.

There is also a fabulous section on cross curriculars! 

Click the link!

Free courses for your educational benefit!

If you are looking to become more educated on the Common Core, there are some free "courses" available for you to take and learn from!

Here is one ran by Stanford Online. The description reads: "This short course looks closely at student-to-student discourse and addresses how to facilitate student engagement in the types of interactions required by the new standards. It organizes a massive collaboration of educators who wish to support students, particularly English Language Learners, to co-create and build upon each other’s ideas as they interact with the content."

It has a 7 week duration and is completely free! 

More Video Resources

I know many of us learn really well by watching, and the Teacher Channel video website has a ton of great ideas, lesson plans and resources available through VIDEO.

Check it out!

The lessons on perseverance are especially interesting, considering one shift we ALL have to make is allowing our students a little more "struggle time."

TED Talks

Many of us have heard of the TED website--a website based on sharing videos that exemplify "ideas worth spreading."

While they aren't all focused or even related to Common Core, there are a lot of awesome videos related to education on the site.

Need a little inspiration today? Click here!

And remember that we are making a difference every single day!

Achieve the Core!

In case you haven't noticed, there are SO MANY resources out in the intrawebs that we can use to implement Common Core. In fact, there are too many to properly share! But we are trying our best to bring you as many as we can!

Achieve the Core is another fabulous website full of complete and comprehensive lesson plans/guides for teachers to use for FREE.

Simply specify your position and grade level, and Achieve the core will lead you to a ton of great information.

For instance, I just downloaded a 22-page unit on close reading a piece by Frederick Douglass. It goes step by step, and shows me exactly what to do over a series of days within my classroom. It's awesome!

The PTA Is on board, too!

Have you been wondering where parents stand on Common Core? Well, the national PTA is on board and doing all they can to help support teachers and the education world as we shift our standards.

CLICK HERE for some comprehensive resources on Common core, including literature and information that parents themselves need to know!

Way to go, PTA!

Socrative Student Response System

Have you wanted to use automatic feedback in your classroom, but don't have those handy little devices to do so? Well, then SOCRATIVE is for you!

It is a super easy way to use laptops, cell phones, tablets, or any kind of device with mobile access.

Basically, you sign up and are assigned a classroom number. You write the link and the number on the board, and have students sign in. Then, as they respond, their responses will show up on the screen.

Pretty sweet, right?

Common Core in the news

The LA times published an article today about the clashing views of not testing this year.

Read the article here.

Edutopia

Edutopia is an awesome website ran by The George Lucas Educational Foundation (I mean, does it get any cooler than that?!)

Here is a link to Edutopia.

It is a wealth of educationally related resources, videos, blogs, and exemplary schools. It even has resources on SEL curriculum, Project-based learning and technology integration!

Right below the main header, you can click Common Core Resources and it will direct you to solely common core stuff. 

Just playing around for a few minutes, I found a link to 21 common core aligned Math apps!

Math (and everyone) resource!

There are so many great websites out there where talented teachers are sharing what they are doing!


Sharemylesson.com is a great place to find pre-written lesson plans.

Here is a subsection of the website devoted to Common Core Math Lessons

Incredible ELA resource

The wealth of information out there in cyberspace is limitless! I can't tell you fun it is to come across incredible resources and share them with you.

Click here for an excellent ELA resource!

A LiveBinder is kind of like a real-life hard-copy binder, where people can compile information and articles and lessons and who knows what!

This ELA livebinder has a ton of great information, from text complexity to unpacking documents to graphic organizers to rubrics!

Happy planning!

Social Science's turn!

There are a lot of resources out there for all disciplines, but they can be difficult to sort through and assess.

Here is a website, Literacy Design Collaborative, that has a bunch of history and social science lessons aligned to the Common Core.

(note: some downloads also include other state standards, but also include Common Core).

Click here for LDC

Science Resources!

Incorporating literacy into all of our subjects is a vital aspect of Common Core.

Here is a website that has some lesson plan ideas for Science lessons that increase emphasis on literacy.

Click here for Science Common Core.

Awesome Math Resource

This website, Illuminations, has a ton of awesome resources for teaching Math in the Common Core!

Click here for Illuminations.

 There are pre-made lessons for each subject, as well as various activities.

Each lesson has additional questions for students, assessment options, extensions, and teacher reflection questions.

Click Here for a  sample on Law of Sines and Cosines

Their "Web Links" page is also reviewed by an editorial board, so the resources they offer are exemplary.

Happy Lesson Planning! 

New York Times Article about Math

Good morning!

We know that the focus of Common Core is DEPTH over breadth. Here is a great article from the New York Times about how this will alter current Math Instruction.

View the article here!