Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards Resources
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Roadblocks and Routes: Professional Development in Math in Common Districts
This report describes some of the more common roadblocks that Math in Common districts faced in their early years of CCSS-M implementation, along with the routes that the districts took around those roadblocks in order to support teacher and student learning.
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What Accelerates a Community of Practice? Inflection Points That Changed the Course of the Math in Common Initiative
This report describes the trajectory of the Math in Common (MiC) Community of Practice (CoP), including both its missteps and its successes, in the hope that designers or participants of other formal or informal CoPs can leverage the MiC experience and make progress more quickly in their own collaborations.
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Understanding Complex Instructional Change: Classroom Observations of Math in Common Districts
This report describes how teachers participating in the Math in Common initiative made significant shifts in their instruction to help students master the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics.
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Educators Collaborating to Improve Mathematics: Three Structures That Mattered in Math in Common Districts
This report describes how districts participating in the Math in Common initiative approached the implementation of the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics (CCSS-M) differently than other California districts.
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Spotlight on Student Achievement: Analyses of Statewide Assessment Data in Math in Common Districts
This report documents the uneven math gains made by Math in Common (MiC) districts, schools, and students, by analyzing the patterns of those gains, which range from outperforming statewide trends to more moderate growth. While progress in student achievement in the MiC districts has been slow, there are some promising signs to share with the field.
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Developing Principals' Instructional Leadership in Math in Common Districts
This report describes the approaches that Math in Common (MiC) districts took toward helping principals take ownership of math instruction and standards implementation at their sites, and profiles three MiC districts that built their principals' instructional leadership over time.
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Supports for Students with Disabilities in the Math in Common Districts
Learn how two school districts are successfully building supports for students with disabilities into all their work for math instructional improvement.
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Developing Principals' Instructional Leadership: Systems of Support in Two Math in Common Districts
Learn about the ways districts are moving to systematically support principals to understand the instructional shifts required by the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics.
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Sense-Makers, Messengers, and Mediators of the New Mathematics Standards: Math Coaches in the Math in Common Community of Practice
Learn how coaches are supporting math standards implementation in school districts.
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The Synergy of Science and English Language Arts: Means and Mutual Benefits of Integration
Learn how the NGSS Early Implementers Initiative is equipping K–8 teachers to integrate science and English language arts.
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Making Sense of SCIENCE: Matter for Teachers of Grades 5-12 (Teacher Book Bundle), Second Edition
These comprehensive course materials for 5–12 science teachers are designed to deepen science understanding in the context of student learning.
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Making Sense of SCIENCE: Matter for Teachers of Grades 5-12 (Facilitator Guide Bundle), Second Edition
This updated course guides staff developers and teacher educators in leading the Matter Teacher Course, designed to deepen the science understanding of grades 5–12 teachers in the context of student learning.
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CenterView: California District Leaders on Common Core: Professional Learning Gaps Persist
Learn what challenges California school districts experience in accessing the instructional resources and professional learning opportunities their educators' need.
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Principals as Instructional Leaders: Harnessing Teacher and Administrator Perceptions from the 2016 Math in Common Annual Surveys
What are teacher and school and district administrator perceptions of the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics implementation process? Find out in this report.
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CenterView: Increasing District Capacity to Implement the Common Core — It Begins With a Partnership
Read about California district leaders' perspectives on Common Core State Standards implementation and the technical assistance districts need.
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