Webinars About the Common Core

Pearson has archived webinars about the Common Core on their website:


http://commoncore.pearsoned.com/index.cfm?locator=PS1sF6

Acheivethecore.org

www.achievethecore.org  has professional development resources, lesson plans, and other Common Core Resources, especially around text-dependent questioning.

Literacy Coaching Clearinghouse Tools

Need to stay organized? Need a calendar? survey? planning form for coaching? You can find everything here:

http://www.literacycoachingonline.org/tools.html

Literacy Coaching Clearinghouse Briefs

Literacy Coaching Clearinghouse has compiled briefs about topics of interest to literacy coaches. Find them here:

http://www.literacycoachingonline.org/briefs.html

These articles are a good read:

Do's and Don'ts for Literacy Coaches: 

http://www.literacycoachingonline.org/briefs/DosandDontsFinal.pdf

Do work first to create a relationship of trust, recognize and appreciate differences, recognize your own beliefs and attitudes about teaching and learning, let the data lead, be a learner...

Don't take it personally, act like the "expert," avoid the tough issues....

and many more!


and

Considering Coaching Responsibilities in Terms of Teacher Change

http://www.literacycoachingonline.org/briefs/coaching_trajectory_a_smith.pdf

This brief explains that coaching falls into two areas: mentoring and advocacy.

Literacy Design Collaborative Templates

LDC has templates for creating higher level thinking tasks. Rubrics are also included. Here's a link to the Elementary Templates:

http://www.literacydesigncollaborative.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/LDC-Elementary-Template-Tasks-v1.pdf

Reading and Writing Project CCSS Videos

Pathways to the Common Core - by the Reading and Writing Project

These videos show what Common Core looks like in the classroom.

http://vimeo.com/tcrwp/albums

SBAC Sample Items

Missouri DOE has posted SBAC sample items that include Webb's DOK levels.

http://dese.mo.gov/divimprove/assess/sbac.html#sbacsample


This a great resource for becoming familiar with DOK and the Common Core