Common Core Standards

Common Core Professional Development — This site is provided by the California Department of Education to help educators prepare to transition to the common core standards. These online video modules are free and have support materials available.

Common Core Professional Development — This site provides example lessons, assessment questions, curricular tools, and professional development to support the implementation of the common core.

Common Core Standards — This site links the user to the common core standards.

Guides on effective teaching strategies — Looking for new teaching strategies or interested in brushing up on the strategies you are already using in your classroom? Strategy guides define and provide examples of effective literacy teaching and learning strategies and offer a wealth of related resources to help sharpen your instruction.

Implementing common core — This site allows access to free resources including a collection of Common Core implementation plans, transition guides, assessment tasks, exemplars and curriculum. Common Core resources from across the U.S. are being indexed as they are developed.

Lesson Plans — This site has hundreds of standards-based lesson plans written and reviewed by educators using current research and the best instructional practices.

Link to materials from CCCOE common core summit — This link gives access to the materials presented at the Common Core Summit on October 29, 2013. Included are the frameworks for the ELA and math standards.