NJSLA Resources



  • ASCD EduCore: Tools for Teaching the Common Core Are you searching for resources to implement the Common Core State Standards? Here you will find current, relevant, evidence-based tools and professional development to smooth your transition into a new era of teaching and learning. (ASCD - Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development)


  • Inside Mathematics: A professional resource for educators passionate about improving students' mathematics learning and performance.This site features classroom examples of innovative teaching methods and insights into student learning, tools for mathematics instruction that teachers can use immediately, and video tours of the ideas and materials on the site.


  • The Mathematics Assessment Project (MARS): The Mathematics Assessment Program (MAP) aims to bring to life the Common Core State Standards (CCSSM) in a way that will help teachers and their students turn their aspirations for achieving them into classroom realities. MAP is a collaboration between the University of California, Berkeley and the Shell Center team at the University of Nottingham, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The team works with the Silicon Valley Mathematics Initiative and school systems across the US and UK to develop improved assessment. The materials from this project will exemplify CCSSM in explicit down-to-earth performance terms


  • Illustrative Mathematics: Illustrative Mathematics provides guidance to states, assessment consortia, testing companies, and curriculum developers by illustrating the range and types of mathematical work that students experience in a faithful implementation of the Common Core State Standards, and by publishing other tools that support implementation of the standards.


  • Teaching Channel: Teaching Channel is a video showcase -- on the Internet and TV -- of innovative and effective teaching practices in America's schools