A Strong State Role in Common Core State Standards Implementation: Rubric and Self-Assessment Tool
The purpose of this tool is to assist states in gauging the strength of their Common Core State Standards implementation plans and to illustrate how to improve them. A high scoring state according to the rubric and tool, has three essential attributes: a system design reflecting accountability for...
Achieve the Core
Free, ready-to-use classroom resources that align to college- and career-ready standards, including the Common Core.
The Common Core State Standards: Supporting Districts and Teachers with Text Complexity
This resource includes a Council of Chief State School Officers webinar, report, and tools to help support districts and teachers in dealing with the issue of text complexity while adopting the Common Core State Standards in ELA. The report accompanying this resource, Measures of Text Difficulty:...
Implementing Common Core State Standards and Assessments
This workbook resource provides a framework and sample timelines for instituting the relevant policies and best practices to implement the Common Core States Standards (CCSS). The workbook offers implementation advice and critical exercises to guide this important effort.
Building a Plan for Higher Education to Implement the Smarter Balanced Assessment System
This document’s goal is to provide “guidance for state higher education leaders on one crucial aspect of implementation: the role that state systems of higher education must play to build toward recognition of the Smarter Balanced [Assessment Consortium] assessment as evidence that students are...
Smarter News – the SBAC Monthly Newsletter
Smarter Balanced provides monthly updates on the development of the Smarter Balanced assessment system and activities in member states.
Education Week: Spotlight on Assessment Website
The Education Week Spotlight on Assessment is a collection of articles hand-picked by Education Week editors including the following topics: classroom evidence of learning, formative assessment, computer-adaptive testing, the promises and challenges of open-ended test items, and the debate over...
Transforming Professional Learning to Prepare College- and Career-Ready Students: Implementing the Common Core
Learning Forward’s Transforming Professional Learning to Prepare College- and Career-Ready Students: Implementing the Common Core is a multidimensional initiative focused on developing a comprehensive system of professional learning that spans the distance from the statehouse to the classroom. With...