COMMON CORE RESOURCES: (HOME PAGE)

New Jersey Department of Education Website
Common Core Standards
Model Curriculum
PARCC (Partnership of Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers)
PARCH Blueprints and Test Specs
ELA/ Literacy Samples

New Jersey Common Core Content Standards
CCSS
Common Core Appendix B

The Bridge: Monthly Newsletter Update on Education in NJ from the NJDOE

Next Generation Science Standards

Partnership for 21st Century Skills

Common Core Resources from Hofstra University: includes text exemplar

Achieve the Core: Free resources for implementing CCSS

ASCD Resource: EduCore - Resources for transitioning to CCSS from ACSC

America Achieves: Includes lesson plans, links to websites, videos of lessons discussed by teachers, information on assessing the quality of resources

Common Core Shifts: Describes the six shifts in ELA/Literacy and Math. Breaks down each shift separately and indicates what the student, teacher, and principal does.

Common Curriculum: Free online resource for creating lesson plans and for creating class websites. Simple, easy to use and aligns lessons to Common Core Standards. Also, has ability to add files and website links to lesson plans. Additionally, has built-in blogging features

Next Generation Science Standards

LITERACY AND LESSONS:
Essay Tagger: Create a rubric aligned to the CCSS and then use Essay Tagger to save time grading essays. This is not an auto-grader. No file management required. Builds your roster as students turn in their work. Works with Google Drive and even tablets.

LearnZillion: Free lesson plans built from the CCSS (may take a while to load)

Reading Analyzer (ATOS)

Reading Analyzer (LEXILE)

NCLE Report - Remodeling Literacy

Nonfiction and the Common Core: blog with ideas for nonfiction as well as nonfiction award list

INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGY:

Innovations in Education: Source for integrating technology into the curriculum and CCSS

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: AWESOME resource for mobile apps and web tools- Check it out! Good idea to go to home page and sign up for RSS feed.