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In 2009, 48 states, 2 territories and the District of Columbia signed a memorandum of
agreement with the National Governors Association (NGA) and Council of Chief State School
Officers (CCSSO), committing to a state-led process - the Common Core State Standards
Initiative (CCSSI).
Achieve partnered with NGA and CCSSO on the Initiative and a number of Achieve staff and
consultants served on the writing and review teams. On June 2, 2010, the Common Core State
Standards for English Language Arts/Literacy and Mathematics (CCSS) were released, and since then, over 45
states have adopted the Common Core State Standards and are now working to implement the standards.
Achieve has developed materials to help states, districts, and others understand the organization and content of
the standards and the content and evidence base used to support the standards.
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Progressions Documents are under development by members of the CCSS working groups and writing
teams (via the Institute for Mathematics and Education) to give educators and curriculum developers
information that can help them develop materials for instruction aligned to the standards. In addition,
the Council of Great City School, working with IM&E has developed classroom tools for teaching
progressions across grade levels, including resources for teaching fractions, which were developed in
partnership with Achieve.
The EQuIP Rubrics and quality review process were developed to evaluate the quality and alignment of
lessons and units intended to address the Common Core State Standards in mathematics and English
Language Arts/literacy. EQuIP builds on the Tri-State Collaborative which was led by Massachusetts,
New York and Rhode Island and facilitated by Achieve. To access the EQuIP Rubrics and learn more
about the EQuIP Collaborative and EQuIP E-Learning Modules click here.
Achieve the Core is a website launched by Student Achievement Partners, an organization founded by
authors of the Common Core State Standards, to share free, open-source resources to support
Common Core implementation at all levels. Resources currently available include the most recent
edition of the Publishers Criteria (designed to guide publishers and curriculum developers as they work
to ensure alignment with the K-2 and 3-12 standards in English language arts (ELA) and literacy for
history/social studies, science, and technical subjects) as well as for K-8 and high school mathematics
and a series of tools for addressing the major instructional shifts in the CCSS, as developed by
classroom educators.
Achieve and the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) launched a new
tool hosted at OER Commons for users to rate the quality of open education resources. The tool allows
educators to rate the quality of these teaching and student learning resources, align these resources to
the CCSS, and evaluate the extent to which the individual resources align to specific standards. (Click
here for more on Achieve's work with OER rubrics.)
The Teaching Channel aims to provide innovative videos and resources to educators to meet its goals
of building teacher-driven professional learning, deepening and improving opportunities for teacher
learning, and elevating and celebrating teachers in society. The website includes a growing collection
of videos that focus on the CCSS, some of which focus on the background of the Common Core in

certain grades/subjects, while others highlight instructional practices aligned to specific standards.
America Achieves features videos of lessons focusing on the instructional shifts within the CCSS,
editable lesson plans, and other instructional resources (the creation of a login required).
CCSS Model Course Pathways in Mathematics were developed by an Achieve-led expert group to help
states and districts decide how to organize the standards into possible high school mathematics
courses.
The Illustrative Mathematics Project offers guidance to states, assessment consortia, testing
companies, and curriculum developers by illustrating the range and types of mathematical work that
students will experience in a faithful implementation of the CCSS. The website features a clickable
version of the Common Core in mathematics and the first round of "illustrations" of specific standards
with associated classroom tasks and solutions.
Achieve, in partnership with the National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education
(NASDCTEc), led a pilot project to help educators integrate the Common Core State Standards in math
and Career Technical Education (CTE) expectations as they modify and develop instructional tasks. For
more information on this project and the educator-developed tasks, see here. To access a set of
resources to help state, district, or school leaders replicate such an effort, see here.
Prior to the development of the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics, a series of documents
were produced by writers of the Common Core that described a specific topic or concept across a
number of grade bands. Classroom tools and videos for teaching fractions progressions across grade
levels are available from the Council of the Great City Schools website.
Beyond the Bubble is a site developed by Stanford History Education Group that includes easy-to-use
history assessments, aligned to the CCSS in ELA/Literacy, that feature interactive rubrics, examples
of student responses, and relevant links to Library of Congress primary sources.
The Council of the Great City Schools and Student Achievement Partners jointly launched the Basal
Alignment Project (BAP) in an effort to increase district capacity for writing text-dependent questions
to existing ELA textbooks. The new repository is located at "Basal Alignment Project" on the education
site Edmodo. Simply create a teacher user name and password and use the group code "etuyrm" to join
the Basal Alignment Project group and access the resources.
ELA Appendix B Text Exemplars: The North Carolina Department of Education has taken the list of
text exemplars included in Appendix B of the CCSS ELA and provided links to where they can be
accessed on the web freely or provided ISBN numbers and the costs associated with purchasing the
texts.
The IDEA Partnership has created a Collection of resources on the Common Core State Standards to
provide stakeholders with access to a comprehensive collection of materials and resources to help
them further understand the CCSS. Tools include fact sheets, dialogue guides, and videos on how to
use the various resources made available.
Stanford Effort to improve English Language Learner access to CCSS: Resources include open-source
teaching resources, research papers, policy implications, in-person and webinar events to prepare
teachers to meet the students' needs in light of the CCSS demands.
Colorin Colorado includes materials on what the CCSS will mean for ELLs. Resources include articles,
research reports, video interviews, and implementation guidelines. The site also features materials
developed by the Albuquerque Teachers Federation (funded by their AFT Innovation grant) around
ELL/CCSS such as video modules feature teachers from Albuquerque working with Dr. Diane August to
create CCSS-aligned lesson plans for ELLs.

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