"As well as a wealth of facts and statistics about the standards, you'll also be able to find aligned curricula and lesson plans, the latest news on the Common Core and relevant videos and links. In addition, you can access expert advice and opinions in our Common Core Forum, where you can ask or answer questions on the standards."

"The Common Core State Standards offers a general roadmap of goals and sequences for the English language arts (ELA) curriculum. However, the Standards was not intended to be the sole source for guiding instruction, assessment, and professional development. Rather, one would want to elaborate on the Standards with sound, empirically based guidance from some 40 years of learning-sciences research. The goal of the CBAL TM ELA Competency Model and Provisional Learning Progressions is to provide such an elaboration, one that we think can offer new insights into how best to design assessment, instruction, and professional development so that they have maximum positive impact."

25 Amazing and Free Common Core Lessons to Launch your Writer's Workshop (includes printables and anchor charts)

Integrating the Common Core Standards into Your Local School Curriculum is a two-part, interactive text that helps you create an implementation plan for the Common Core Standards. Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs and the Curriculum 21 team have created the first interactive, multimedia text that guides you through creating an implementation guide for the Common Core Standards.

We help teachers better understand the needs, motivations, and strengths of every child so they can personalize instruction and accelerate learning. Educators can more efficiently and effectively reach, engage, and inspire every student with our research-based solutions. At Compass Learning, we not only engage students in learning, we ensure our offerings align with State and Common Core Standards, so you achieve the accountability needed in this day and age.

2-ASCD features a map that shows which states have already adopted CCSS and those that have not.3- THE CBAL English language Arts Competency Model and Provisional Learning Progressions 4- Pathways to CCSS Lucy Calkins together with her team have done a greart job recording videos of teachers using CCSS in their classrooms, check out those video to learn more.5- Launching Writing Workshop with CCSS 6-Here a great Pinterest board featuring several resources on Common Core State Standards.7-8- Compass Learning 9-This tool enables teachers to create their lesson plans and align them with the CCSS. It several features including a plan book and a common curriculum planner.10- CCSS Cheat sheets Here ten awesome Common Core State Standards cheat sheets for teachers and educators. All the cheats are downloadable.