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About Common Core Standards
This section is for those new to the Common Core Standards and want to learn more about it.
Links to Resources
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Common Core Standards
These are direct links to the Standards.
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Common Core FAQs
Questions have been created and answered by the CCSS.
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Encyclopedic Overview
Wikipedia's overview of the CCSS.
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iPhone/iPad App with the Standards
View the Common Core Standards in one free, convenient app.
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Connecticut (SDE) Implementation Timeline
When will I have to implement the standards? "Mouse-over" the timeline to make the steps appear.
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Connecticut's (SDE) Vision of the Common Core
Video of Sandra Alberti presenting the state's vision of CCSS.
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NCTM Overview
NCTM Power Point that explains how the NCTM contributed to the CCSSM, explaining the standards' format by grade level, domain and cluster.
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Common Core 360 Blog
Brief article explains the "spiraling staircase of responsibility."
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Hunt Institute Videos
Short videos explain elements and concepts underlying Common Core, ranging from non-fiction literacy, ratios, connections to higher education and more.
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Teachers' Reactions to working with the Common Core
Teacher voices about working with the CCSS.
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Understanding the Common Core introductory Text
Information on attaining an introductory book to the Common Core published by ASCD.
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Smarter Balance Consortium
General Information on the assessment group that CT works with.
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