Over 300,000 Teacher-Created, Teacher-Vetted Resources--FREE!

Sharemylesson.com is a website that brings educators together to share their winning classroom and professional development resources with each other.

Intended to inspire and facilitate collaboration among teachers, this site includes an enormous number of Common Core-aligned lesson plans and resources, all of which you can access for free.

Searching can be a little bit of a challenge, but there are a few short, easy-to-follow tutorial videos on the homepage that will help you learn to navigate the site. And it's worth it! The site includes a Common Core hub, with news, information, updates, and forums to help you as prepare for the move to CCSS.

CHECK IT OUT HERE!

The School Librarian and Common Core--A Critically Important Role!

In the information age, the school librarian is arguably one of the most important roles in any school. Because Common Core has the goal of helping students become intelligent, engaged, critically aware readers and interpreters of information, the library can be a fantastic hub where students can make connections across subjects and deepen and broaden the concepts and learning tools they get in their classrooms.

This paper, a joint effort of the education reform organization Achieve and the American Association of School Librarians (AASL), aims to help school librarians think about how they can play a transformative role in their schools as part of the transition to Common Core State Standards.

Classroom teachers also can benefit from the information in this brief, since it is through meaningful collaboration with librarians that schools can "cooperatively break the isolation of the traditional classroom."

CLICK HERE to download the full PDF text of the brief!

Common Core: Getting a Handle on Resources, Info, Ideas, and Assessments

There is so much out there right now about Common Core State Standards--from heated debates and misinformation to fantastic new resources to help teachers prepare for the transition. But how do you know where to look for solid information and vetted resources? It can be more than a little overwhelming trying to sort through everything out there, especially if you're a busy teacher with a full schedule already.

Help is here! Check out this great Common Core roundup from Edutopia.org! Whether you're looking to get a handle on the debates about CCSS, or learn more about implementation on the ground in schools, or find out more about how the standards were developed and the research behind them, or even get a better grip on assessments and lesson plans aligned to the Common Core, this website offers tons of organized, useful, curated links. CHECK IT OUT HERE!