Curriculum - Common Core Standards

The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) website contains web version of the standards or PDF versions
to download or print.

A general introduction to CCSS, with links to MDE's support documents, is on the MDE website.    

Roll-out PowerPoint from November 22, 2010 (Ingham ISD)

Alignment Documents

Mathematics

Overview of 5th-8th grade CCSS with changes from GLCEs     
Mathematics "crosswalk" documents are available on the MCTM website.    
Standards for Mathematical Practices grid - for aligning and evaluating your mathematics instruction.

English Language Arts

CCSS ELA Analysis Tool       
K-2 ELA Alignment document from MDE        
3-5 ELA Alignment document from MDE      
6-8 ELA Alignment document from MDE     
9-CCR ELA Alignment document from MDE    
Printable Scavenger Hunt      
Deconstruction of Exemplar Text       
High-incidence Academic Word List from Averil Coxhead

Links to other national standards initiatives

Assessment

SMARTER-Balanced Assessment Consortium

Science education standards

Conceptual Framework for New Science Education Standards, by the National Academy of Sciences      
Plan to develop "Next Generation" science standards, by Achieve, Inc.       
Timeline for development of New Science Standards (a graphic by Mike Gallagher, Oakland Schools)

Additional resources

Linda Darling Hammond on Becoming Internationally Competitive - a video (08:45)            
Moving Forward With the Common Core, by Sarah Fine, published online in EducationWeek 10/14/10       
Kent ISD Common Core website, with nice resource page of instructional strategies (among other things)          
IES Practice Guides, What Works Clearinghouse (Adolescent Literacy, Mathematics RtI, Fractions, etc.)            
National Technology Plan in support of 21st century learning through the Common Core State Standards       
Partnership for 21st Century Skills - a national effort to integrate 21st Century Skills into all classrooms       
Beyond Business as Usual-Key State Actions to Boost College and Career Readiness - a PowerPoint presentation by David T. Conley, University of Oregon