Common Core Resources

Good morning! South Dakota is part of the Smarter Balanced Consortium and there are multiple resources here below from the Smarter Balanced Consortium as well as other state's education agencies. I am with the Student Council tomorrow, but please let me know if there is anything I can do to help you this upcoming week. 

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The set of 15 iPads will be in Lisa Brandt's Room until January 3rd. All teachers in all grades have the option of turning in an application, including teachers that have already submitted applications. You may turn them in at any time prior to January 3rd. 

There are 25 iPads in my office that you can use at any time. Check them out at: tinyurl.com/deuelipad The checkout is an online excel spreadsheet. On the bottom of the page are sheets labeled with the date. You click on the sheet and then add your name to the time and day you want to check out the iPads. Please email me or stop in if there is anything specific you want on the iPads. Right now there are many elementary level interactive books, math flashcards, math story problems, telling time/ clock apps, edmodo, and also many productivity apps for all levels. There are hundreds of apps that we can rotate on an off the iPads for your students! 

The email app on all the iPads has a "Deuel Student" gmail on it. You can send students' documents or links to this email address and they can be opened on any of the 25 iPads. 

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Smarter Balance Consortium Sample Tasks and Exemplars: 

 http://www.smarterbalanced.org/smarter-balanced-assessments/  

http://www.smarterbalanced.org/sample-items-and-performance-tasks/ 

Sample Performance Tasks and Text Exemplars from other resources: 

http://www.maine.gov/education/lres/ela/ccssspt.html 

http://www.parcconline.org/samples/item-task-prototypes#6 

http://readingandwritingproject.com/resources/assessments/performance-assessments.html (Click on the year to expand the links and download.)

http://schools.nyc.gov/Academics/CommonCoreLibrary/TasksUnitsStudentWork/newtasks.htm 

Presentation on Creating Your Own Performance Task

Article: What are the components of a common core lesson? 

Article: What Special Education Educators Need to Know

Video: http://vimeo.com/39784324 This video is somewhat an overview for California educators, but it is a good place to start. As California is one of the governing states for the Smarter Balanced consortium, this video has more relevance to the history of common core.

Also, if you are an iPad user, I'd recommend downloading the Common Core App as an easy to read/ find/ manage the somewhat cumbersome inch-think printout of your Math or Reading standards. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/common-core-standards/id439424555?mt=8 

Tutorial: http://myboe.org/portal/default/Content/Viewer/Content?action=2&scId=306588

If you want to really explore Common Core, the CA DOE set up an online course the teachers' took as part of their training. I really think it helps to explain the differences of the standards and also some of the basics of how they are set up. 

Have an awesome weekend!