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= Welcome to the MCS Resource Wiki for math teachers! =

==This is a place to share with each other as we transition to the Common Core standards! We want this to be a useful math resource so please share feedback with the leadership team as to how it can best meet your needs. Please feel free to add resources related to the common core. ==

The Alabama Common Core Standards can be found here:
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__**The Insights Tool:**__
This is a fabulous tool and we encourage all of you to look at it as it supports our shift to the College and Career Ready Standards for the Common Core. You will be able to filter by domain, conceptual category, and grade group. It gives you the CCRS, standard ID, grade level, evidence of student attainment, teacher vocabulary, knowledge, skills, understanding, ALEX resources, AMSTI resources, etc. 1. [] 2. Choose Madison City (city systems are under the county systems, so scroll down) and click continue 3. The Username and Password has been updated for each school. Please check with your principal for your school's username and password. Your principal also has the Insight Tool User Guide. 4. Then choose Mathematics, Language Arts, or Literacy in all Content Areas 5. See pages and files on this wiki for the [|Alabama_Insight_User's_Guide.pdf]

__**Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC)/Alabama is a member.**__
The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) is a consortium of 23 states plus the U.S. Virgin Islands working together to develop a common set of K-12 assessments in English and math anchored in what it takes to be ready for college and careers. These new K-12 assessments will build a pathway to college and career readiness by the end of high school, mark students’ progress toward this goal from 3rd grade up, and provide teachers with timely information to inform instruction and provide student support. The PARCC assessments will be ready for states to administer during the 2014-15 school year.

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=__Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium/ Alabama is an advisory state.__= //The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (Smarter Balanced) is a state-led consortium working to develop next-generation assessments that accurately measure student progress toward college- and career-readiness. Smarter Balanced is one of two multistate consortia awarded funding from the U.S. Department of Education in 2010 to develop an assessment system aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) by the 2014-15 school year.// []

=__**A great Resource from our AMSTI (Linda Bridges) at UAH:**__= Check out this website for great resources for all grade levels for the new math course of study. Resources are tied to specific standards. @https://ccgps.org/CCSS.html

==== The new Content Correlation Documents which correlate the new 2010 Mathematics Course of Study with the ARMT + have been posted by the state dept of education. Also on the same page you will find a link to the suggested accelerated math curriculum for 7th grade advanced math and 8th grade Algebra I. This curriculum allows students to cover all of 7th grade and 8th grade new course of study standards as well as complete Alg I in the 8th grade. The link is:@http://alex.state.al.us/ccrs/node/76. ====

Shared by Belinda McCay (Instructional Partner Blount County Schools): This article was written by the authors of the CCSSM and I hope you find it of interest. The urn analogy describes the importance of the structures of the math standards very clearly. [|http://commoncoretools.me/2012/02/16/the-structure-is-the-standards/#more-422]

Common Core Webinar 6/18/12 attended by Allison Miller, Jackie Flowers and Jeana Ross Vertical Alignment []