Resources for Teaching Common Core, CA English Language Development, & Next Generation (NGSS) Science Standards

"With school starting this week in towns and cities across the country, teachers everywhere are looking to build on lesson plans and curricula that meet new Common Core State Standards (CCSS). According to Scholastic.com, the CCSS “call for fewer but more rigorous standards in English Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics to provide students with the skills and knowledge they will need for college and career readiness.”  While many teachers expect some degree of uncertainty with the standards that have gone into effect country-wide in the past few years, a number of resources are available to support implementation of these standards in the classroom, most notably the CCSS’ appendices of useful textual exemplars. Since any text can be used so long as it meets the CCSS’ standards, we hope that educators make use of the incredible primary and secondary resources available through the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)." 
Full post at: http://dp.la/info/2013/08/29/dpla-classroom-ccss/

When: Friday October 11th, 2013, 9am - Noon
Where: College Track East Palo Alto
1877 Bay Road, East Palo Alto, CA 94043

"This half-day workshop is designed to offer school leaders, coaches and teachers instructional strategies to develop the 4 Cs in their student communities: collaboration, critical thinking, communication and creativity. The strategies that will be shared and modeled are offered for immediate use in the classroom. 

Principals, counselors, teachers, instructional coaches and other educators will leave with  experience-proven classroom management techniques, student engagement tools and instructional strategies." - Al Gonzales. 
For registration, click here: 

http://classworksonline.blogspot.com/p/institute-information.html ;