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Common Core State Standards
2011-2012
The Arkansas State Department of Education has a website dedicated to information about the Common Core State Standards in the state. Go to Arkansas Common Core State Standards Initiative.
ComingEvents:
Summer Professional Development
Teachers & Administrators
Register for Summer PD sessions on escWorks. If you've forgotten your passord, or have trouble logging into your account, send an email to Sue Fabert. She can reset your account. The escWorks online link for "forgotten your password" is not working and will not send you an email.
ELA & CCSS
ELA Resources
Grades 5 and 6 pacing guides have been rewritten to reflect Common Core State Standards.
Grades K-2 Units are available for download.
[Please note: The ELA Resources link is only for CPSD network use.]
Math & CCSS
Math Resources
Pacing guides can be found in the curriculum folder.
Grades K-2 pacing guides reflect the implementation of CCSS for the 2011-2012 school year. Grades 3-8 pacing includes a CCSS unit to fill gaps before implemention in 2012-2013.
[Please note: The Math Resources link is only for CPSD network use.]
Science & CCSS
Board on Science Education
The Framework for developing Science standards is under review.
"The Framework is the first step in a process for revising existing standards in K-12 science education. In the second step, Achieve, Inc., an independent, bipartisan, non-profit education reform organization that works closely with states will develop a full set of internationally-benchmarked standards based on the Framework." (Helen R. Quinn, PhD, Chair, NRC Committee to Develop a Conceptual Framework for New Science Education Standards)
Social Studies
& CCSS
National Council for the Social Studies
A coalition of eighteen states and fifteen professional organizations are involved in the development of Common State Standards in Social Studies.
Art, Music, and Media & CCSS
Common Core (ELA) Mapping Project
The Common Core (ELA) Mapping Project provides K-12 unit by unit lists of suggested works that not only include literary and informational texts, but works of art, music, and various forms of media.
Common Core State Standards
Timeline
2010-2011:
- July 12, 2010 - Arkansas adopted the Common Core State Standards
- Assessment on AR Frameworks (Benchmark & EOC)
- Implementation of K-2 CCSS
- Assessment on AR Frameworks (Benchmark & EOC)
- Implementation of 3-8 CCSS
- First Year Field Assessment of CCSS
- Assessment on AR Frameworks (Benchmark & EOC)
- Implementation of 9-12 CCSS
- Second Year Field Assessment of CCSS
- Assessment on AR Frameworks (Benchmark & EOC)
- Full implementaion of CCSS
- Assessment on CCSS (PARCC)
CCSS Information and Resources
- Common Core State Standards Initiative
- Arkansas Common Core State Standards Initiative
- Achieving the Common Core
- Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers Site for Common Core and Assessment Resources including the Common Core Implementation Workbook by Achieve and U.S. Education Delivery Institute (pdf). Sample lessons and assessments are expected.
- PARCC English Language Arts Framework
- PARCC Mathematics Framework
- The Common Core (ELA) Curriculum Mapping Project
- Tools for the Common Core Standards Bill McCallum's Blog, one of the authors of the Math Common Core. He is developing both a narative companion and illustrated tasks for the math standards.
- The Illustrative Mathematics Project A site with tasks directed at teaching and testing math standards by Bill McCallum and a team, funded by the Gates Foundation.
- ADE/Common Core State Standards Information
- CCSS Arkansas (ELA and Math Crosswalks)
- Library Media CCSS Crosswalk
- On the Road to Implementation Site by Teresa Chance, Northwest Coop Teacher Coordiantor/Assistant Director. Collection of Common Core information and resources.
- Beyond the Bubble (pdf brochure)
- Common Core Implementaion Timeline (PowerPoint)
- Common Core Gap Analysis Timeline (pdf)
- Introduction to The Common Core (PowerPoint by Sarah Coker)
- Parents' Guides to Student Success The National PTA® created guides for grades K-8 and two for grades 9-12 (one for English language arts/literacy and one for mathematics) describing the Common Core State Standards.
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