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Hey guys!

I just wanted to share with you a resource that I hope you’ll find helpful as you implement the Common Core.  Here are some guiding questions for you to use at your school – these will help get the “gunk” out of the way before you get implementing!  It’s necessary!

1

What have we done so far in our CCSS efforts?  What history do we have in implementation across the departments?

2

What direction do we have from the district?  What support do we have from the district?

3

What are the inhibitors to our work on the CCSS?  Is there residual debris from other efforts that we need to clean up?

4

What are our monthly goals for implementation?  Will we have school-wide plans?  Will we have department-wide plans?

5

How will the plan be shared with the staff?  School-wide?  By teams?  By department?

6

How do we mobilize teachers to own and author the plan?

7

What will our assessments look like?  Do we already have assessments that we can use for development or do we develop brand new assessments?

8

How will we team to develop the benchmark assessments?  How will we collect and monitor assessments?

9

How will we handle unit/lesson development?  What do we have in place?  How will we collect/monitor the lesson we’ve developed?

10

What is our monitoring plan? How will the Leadership Team “walk the deck?”  What are our “CCSS implementation benchmarks?”

Then, you’ll find a planning tool that will allow you to get started aligning your current curriculum to the Common Core. 

Click here to download the resource!!!