Common Core Standards Resource Page
The New Illinois Learning Standards
Incorporating the Common Core
The Illinois State Board of Education has adopted new Math and English Language Arts standards for K‐12 education known as the New Illinois State Learning Standards Incorporating the Common Core. The goal is to better prepare Illinois students for success in college and the workforce in a competitive global economy.
Why new standards?
Our expectations for what students must know and be able to demonstrate were different in 1997 when Illinois adopted the current standards.
The new standards aim to provide clear, consistent academic benchmarks with “fewer, clearer and higher” academic standards for essential learning and skills. The standards were developed while considering the standards of top performing countries and the strengths of current state standards.
The 2010 state standards provide benchmarks for academic progress (skills and knowledge) that students should have at the conclusion of each grade level. This will allow teachers to establish the best approach to help their students meet those standards.
Students and parents will clearly understand the knowledge students are expected to attain each year.
[Points taken from Illinois State Board of Education's website]
To Learn More . . .
General Summaries
Illinois State Board of Education's Website
New Math and English IL Standards/Common Core (by grade level)
Resources – many good links on this page
Common Core State Standards Initiative
This page contains a lot of good information on Common Core Standards. See the documents at the bottom
These are some links to Key Points in ELA & Math
Summary Videos
http://www.lsri.uic.edu/ccss
Phil Daro video on math Standards.
The Huntsman Institute's YouTube channel
Common Core Standards: A New Foundation for Student Success
The Teaching Channel website
For videos of Lesson Ideas relating to the Common Core click here
Assessment Information
Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers
PARCC is a 24-state consortium working together to develop next-generation K-12 assessments in English and math.
Under the tab “In the Classroom” click on “PARCC Content Frameworks" at the bottom of page, there are PDFs for ELA and math that include a comparison from grade to grade of the standards that illustrate progressions.
Orange County Department of Education
This site is a great resource for sample test items (located midway down the page)
Smarter Balance Assessment Consortium Overview and Sample – see slides 17-26
Work Samples and Student Tasks
New York City Department of Education
Page down to see “Interactive Annotated Student Work” where you will find tasks and rubrics
TED
TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Of particular interest Dan Meyer’s “Math class needs a makeover”
Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Exploration activities are at the bottom of the page, with facilitator’s guides.
http://www.nctm.org/hsfocus
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Sample tasks for Reasoning and Sense-making at the HS Level
Mathematics
ericmilou.com
Mathematics Professor at Rowan University. The middle column contains many useful links on all units of mathematics. This link is particularly useful.
The Institute of Mathematics and Education
An institute at the University of Arizona. A good link on Standards Progressions for the Common Core. Scroll to the bottom of the page for a list of links.
http://commoncoretools.wordpress.com
Progressions See Ratios and Proportional Reasoning
Http://illustrativemathematics.org
Problems and tasks for the CCSS are to be developed. If you click on “The Standards” at the left, you can get standards for each grade level.
There is a link to the K-8 Standards as well as a link to the High School Standards
For each of the above links click on the link "Instructions" on the left side of the page and "Show only Illustrated Standards"
ELA and Content
Kansas State Department of Education
This has a great list of resources and information on Common Core. Worth noting is the section towards the bottom "Analyzing Text Complexity Resources"
http://usny.nysed.gov/rttt/resources/bringing-the-common-core-to-life.html
Video series with Dr. David Coleman
Accommodations
Council of Chief State School Officers
This is the accommodations manual for students with disabilities that describes how to select, administer, and evaluate use of accommodations for instruction and assessment of students with disabilities.