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• Rubrics for aligning Open Educational Resources (OER) to CCSS.
• Rubrics designed “to help states, districts, teachers, and other users determine the degree of alignment of OERs to the Common Core State Standards, and to determine aspects of quality of OERs.” The eight rubrics address such areas as content quality, usefulness of materials, assessments, practice exercise, and others. Achieve, Inc.

• The Illustrative Mathematics Project:
• still under construction at this writing, this website will “illustrate the range and types of mathematical work that students will experience in a faithful implementation of the Common Core State Standards, and by publishing other tools that support implementation of the standards.”

• Tools for the Common Core standards:
• a blog by Bill McCallum, lead author of the CCSS mathematics standards. A good place to stay up to date on progress, download tools as they come available, and engage in conversations with other professionals.

• SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium:
• the main website for the 29-state SMARTER assessment consortium headquartered at the Washington state Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction.

• Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC):
• the main website for the 14-state PARCC assessment consortium under the project management of Achieve, Inc. Sign up to receive updates on progress.

• Common Core State Standards:
• the official website for the CCSS where you can download the standards and keep up with state CCSS adoption.

• Definition of popular terms in public education

• Webinar: Planning for pre-kindergarten: A toolkit for school
• Patte Barth, the Center director, joins consultant Chrisanne Gayl and NSBA’s Kathleen Branch and Katherine Shek to provide this overview of the Pre-K tool kit for members of NSBA’s Pre-K Legislative Committee. April 28, 2009