Common Core
Websites to Explore
http://www.smarterbalanced.org/ - Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (starting place for numerous common core resources)
http://sbac.portal.airast.org/Practice_Test/default.html - Smarter Balanced Practice Test
http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/cc/ - California Department of Education Common Core Information
http://commoncore.lacoe.edu/resources/general.php - Los Angeles County Office of Education Common Core State Standards Resources
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy - Common Core State Standards Initiative – ELA
http://www.corestandards.org/math - Common Core State Standards Initiative - Math
http://caccssm.cmpso.org/ - California Common Core State Standards Mathematics (CaCCSS-M)
http://www.wolframalpha.com - Wolfram Alpha Computational Knowledge Engine (very different type of search)
http://www.wdyl.com - What do you love? from Google (another very different search engine)
http://www.google.com/edu/ - Google in Education (online activities, resources, and Google apps for education)
http://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/curriculum - Digital Literacy and Citizenship Classroom Curriculum
http://www.gutenberg.org/ - Project Gutenberg (free ebooks)
http://www.wordle.net – Wordle (toy for generating word clouds from text that you provide)
http://www.screencast-o-matic.com - Screencast O Matic (lesson recording functionality or student video creation)
http://mathtrain.tv/ - free, educational "kids teaching kids" project (student created tutorials)
https://www.teachingchannel.org/ - Teaching Channel (teacher videos, Q&A, and ways to connect)
http://www.myctap.org/ - California Technology Assistance Project (numerous teaching and technology resources) (MUSD is in Region 8)
https://sites.google.com/site/ctapcommoncore/ - CTAP CCSS Technology Integration Instructional Modules
https://sites.google.com/site/mcoeccss/home/technology - Monterey County Office of Ed CCSS resources
http://ccas.sdcoe.net/ - Common Core Assessment Simulator (Math and ELA digital content)
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/ - Free Technology for Teachers Resources
https://www.remind101.com/ - Remind101 (safe confidential way to send text messages to students and parents)
https://www.coursera.org/ or https://www.udacity.com/ or https://www.edx.org/ - Coursera or Udacity or EdX (Take College Level and below Educational Courses online for free)
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