According to the School Improvement Network (http://www.schoolimprovement.com), 
New York State's Common Core resources are the best of any other state's. I am 
curious about what your states are doing for you, and is there anything specific 
for librarians? What are the URLs of your state's Common Core resources 
toolkits?

"This Common Core Standards resource provides the following:

 * A series of Common Core resource videos, which describes some of the most 
important Common Core Standards in depth
 * The Standards guide for textbook publishers, that directs them as they 
produce Common Core Standards aligned material
 * A CCSS timeline that outlines the “scope and sequence” for New York’s Common 
Core implementation, beginning summer 2011 and ending in 2015. This is specific 
to New York, but since the state is at least a year ahead of many others in  
implementation it offers a very nice Common Core Standards resource with what 
could be a useful template for other states to follow
 * Examples of curriculum to use in your classroom
 * A Common Core resource describing what New York is calling the “Common Core 
Instructional Shifts”: 6 “instructional shifts” that need to  be made to achieve 
Common Core implementation
 * The “Tri-State Quality Review Rubric and Rating Process”: a rubric that you 
can use to measure how well your lessons align to the Common Core Standards
 * A guide to creating text dependent questions around the Common Core 
Standards."

http://engageny.org/



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Patricia Sarles, MA, MLS
Jerome Parker Campus Library
100 Essex Drive
Staten Island, NY 10314
718-370-6900 x1322
psarles@schools.nyc.gov
http://www.scoop.it/t/help-with-the-common-core-state-standards/
http://paper.li/psarles/1332609247

The Internet may be the world's greatest library, but let's face it - all the 
books are scattered on the floor.  - D.C. Denison, Boston Globe

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. 
- Mitchell Kapor

To save man from the morass of propaganda, in my opinion, is one of the chief 
aims of education. Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to 
discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from 
the fiction ... The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think 
intensively and to think critically. - Martin Luther King, Jr. The Purpose of 
Education