Conference Developed Materials on IM&E Website

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The IM&E website now links to the materials developed by participants at our last three Common Core related conferences:

October 2012 Berkeley Conference page Participants made classroom activities based on a particular task or set of 2-3 tasks

May 2012 New Orleans Conference page Participants made short PD units or classroom activities around a particular standard, group of standards, or cluster

February 2012 Tucson Conference page Participants made PD modules around a particular standard, cluster, or domain

Implementing the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics Workshop – October 12 -14, 2012

/ Ellen Whitesides / 8 Comments

Implementing the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics workshop is now taking registrations on the IM&E website. Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to learn about the standards from lead author of the CCSSM, Bill McCallum, as well as break-out sessions developed and led by classroom teachers at all grade levels.  This workshop is intended for an audience of teachers, administrators, and district personnel. The workshop is from 3:30 on Friday October 12th – 1:30 on Sunday October 14th in Berkeley, California.  If you have been waiting for Bill’s Common Core team to make it to the west coast, this is your chance!

Please register quickly as our previous workshops have sold out!

New blog registration feature

/ Bill McCallum / 9 Comments

Now that I’ve moved the blog to a private hosting company, you can register to become a subscriber to the blog using the links on the right. This offers a bit more than the email subscription that has been available for a while. Becoming a subscriber means you can create a profile with some information about yourself, which will be available to people who read your comments (if you are logged in). It also gives you some (not many) controls over forum notifications. I may add more features as I discover them.

I will keep the current email notification feature for those who prefer to keep using that.

New forums

/ Bill McCallum / 6 Comments

If you have questions about the standards, please ask them in the forums (you can also always access this from the menu bar above). The old thread with questions is here, but it is no longer possible to add comments. Before posting a question, please use each of the search bars to the right to see if has already been answered.

K–8 Publishers’ criteria released

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Criteria for materials supporting implementation of the Common Core are now available at corestandards.org (go to the resources page to download the pdf, here is a direct link). They were written by the lead writers of the standards (Phil Daro, myself, and Jason Zimba). There’s an article about them by Erik Robelen at Education Week. A high school document, along with any revisions to the K–8 document resulting from public feedback, will be released early next year.