Center for Standards, Assessment, and Accountability

Grade Level: Elementary School (K-5)

Implementing the C3 Framework: What is our Task as Social Studies Leaders?

This National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) article provides guidance for district- and school-level instructional leaders as they help their colleagues learn about the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards. The NCSS President, Dr. Michelle Herczog, wrote the article and adapted a set of accompanying tools from Achieve […]

Introductory Overview of C3 for Educators

The National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) created this 45-minute webinar as an introduction to the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards. The NCSS President, Dr. Michelle Herczog, narrates the webinar, which also includes video clips of different researchers who were involved in creating the C3 Framework. The […]

Supporting English Learners: Lessons from Research

This very readable article on instructional planning at the lesson level is based on a much more extensive NSF study, “Fostering Mathematical Success of English Language Learners.” Here, the authors introduce a traditional geometry task and then show how this task might be revised to foster student engagement with the standards for mathematical practice (SMP). […]

Teaching and Learning Mathematics with the Common Core

This video series is the product of a collaboration between the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) and the Hunt Institute. In addition to classroom examples, the Math Voices video series uses interviews with elementary classroom teachers, secondary mathematics teachers, instructional leaders and coaches, principals, parent leaders, national mathematics experts, and college mathematics professors […]

Teaching Academic Content and Literacy to English Learners in Elementary and Middle School

This educator practice guide is part of the What Works Clearinghouse. From the IES abstract: “This practice guide provides four recommendations that address what works for English learners during reading and content area instruction. Each recommendation includes extensive examples of activities that can be used to support students as they build the language and literacy skills […]