Get ready to implement the Common Core State Standards at your school.
Specifically for Principals
Common Core Implementation Checklist
Principal leadership is critical in the transition to Common Core State Standards. NAESP has developed this checklist to help you determine what bodies of knowledge and skill sets you will need to gain as you prepare to lead your school into using the new standards.
Focus on Common Core on PD 360
PD 360 video segments on the Common Core are available to NAESP members during the month of April 2012. Your membership gives you free access to a selection of high-quality online professional development—at no cost—thanks to our partnership with School Improvement Network, maker of the award-winning PD 360, the world’s largest and most respected source of on-demand learning for educators.
A one-day workshop and demonstration for ASSISTments, a powerful FREE web-based tool. ASSISTments math assessment tools are tagged to skills are mapped to the Common Core State Standards.
Principal magazine article from November/December 2010.
Highlights the issues that principals will need to consider in implementing Common Core. The webinars, sponsored by College Board and NASSP, cover topics such as schoolwide instructional practices, math standards, English language arts standards, and changing school culture and climate.
Resources from Engage NY, including a professional development training video series.
Communicator newsletter article from March 2012
Communicator newsletter article from April 2012
Offers seven leadership development modules and 24 teacher development strategies. Use these strategies and resources to build customized professional development experiences for teachers.
Background Resources
Official website of the initiative.
Resources from the Council of Chief State School Officers.
Video vignettes commissioned by the Hunt Institute and the Council of Chief State School Officers to help educators, policymakers, and parents better understand the breadth and depth of the standards and how they will improve teaching, make classrooms better, create shared expectations, and cultivate lifelong learning for all students.
Fact sheet by Education Northwest.
A report from Education First and Editorial Projects in Education that reviews state plans to align professional development, curriculum, and teacher evaluation systems with the Common Core State Standards.
Includes several surveys about progress and challenges in implementing Common Core.
The IDEA Partnership seeks to think about the Common Core Standards from stakeholder perspectives at all knowledge levels, to look at things differently, and to speak to practical application by taking the ideas and making them tangible to those in the field.
Assessment
The U.S. Department of Education awarded funding to two multi-state consortia to develop an assessment system based on CCSS.
Specifically for Parents
Guides for each grade level from the National PTA, intended to be used as a tool for parents to build relationships with their children's teachers once the standards are fully in place.
Recommended Books
NPRC Books on the Common Core
NAESP has put together a collection of recommended resources that have proven to benefit principal's success as they face today's educational challenges.
