Common Core

Websites to Explore

http://www.smarterbalanced.org/ - Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (starting place for numerous common core resources)

https://www.cde.ca.gov/re/cc/ - Smarter Balanced Practice Test

https://www.lacoe.edu/Curriculum-Instruction/Common-Core - 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.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)

https://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/Home - Cool Tools For Schools