Center for Standards, Assessment, and Accountability

Subject Area: Science

Language Objectives: The Key to Effective Content Area Instruction for English Learners

From the website: “In this article written for Colorín Colorado, Jennifer Himmel of the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) provides an overview of how to use language objectives in content-area instruction for English learners. Her overview includes: what a language objective is steps that teachers can take to create language objectives how to implement language […]

Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century

From the publisher’s description: Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century describes this important set of key skills that increase deeper learning, college and career readiness, student-centered learning, and higher order thinking. These labels include both cognitive and non-cognitive skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, effective […]

STEAM Games, Apps, and Sites

Common Sense is the largest independent nonprofit organization committed to helping kids, teachers, and families manage media and technology in life and learning. They provide ratings and reviews to apps, games, and website created by teachers and for teachers. The team of reviews at Common Sense has curated and reviewed a collection of STEAM games, […]

Colorado Assessment Review Tool

The Assessment Review Tool (ART) is intended for use in analyzing summative K-12 classroom assessments to determine their quality and efficacy, their suitability for use as student growth measures, and their alignment with the Colorado Academic Standards (CAS). With very minor modification the tool could be used to evaluate alignment to the Common Core State […]

Common Core & ELLs: Lesson Plans

Colori­n Colorado has published three English language arts (ELA) units that are aligned to the Common Core State Standards and target English language learners’ (ELLs) literacy and language needs. These units for grades 1, 4, and 8 were developed by a group of teachers from Albuquerque, New Mexico, working in collaboration with the Albuquerque Teachers […]

Close Reading Text Cover Sheet

The Text Cover Sheet provides a space for teachers to analyze a text, then identify and record for instructional purposes (1) the standards addressed; (2) reading purposes and text content; and (3) text and language challenges and connections. It accompanies the resource Supporting Students in Close Reading. As a Word version, teachers can fill it out electronically.