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This site includes classroom resources for reading foundational skills.
Tools to support teachers' understanding of text complexity.
Resources for parents & educators to help make the most of PBS KIDS and support your child's learning every day .
This site provides examples of test questions used on Smarter Balanced assessments in English language arts/literacy and math. Test questions are developed with extensive involvement by educators, including test question writing, reviewing for accuracy, and ensuring questions are fair for all test takers.
Educator-created lessons, activities, strategies, and professional development to help tailor instruction and boost learning.
Research & resources for educators to teach reading.
Reading Rockets provides a range of resources for teachers, administrators, parents, and childcare providers: classroom strategies, writing samples of peer children, as well as reading topics by skill level.
Assessing the range of knowledge and skills is important for college and career readiness. Teachers can use this site to learn how test items connect to academic standards.
PBS SoCal | KCET and PBS have curated FREE, standards-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more just for California teachers and families.
Achievement Network helps schools and districts boost student learning with great teaching that’s grounded in learning standards, informed by data, and built on the successful practices of educators around the country.
This webpage describes three essential shifts in literacy under the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) to support students become independent and capable readers that can effectively access and analyze informational text.
Activity for parents and teachers to encourage children to use the 27 feeling words to express their feelings.
This guide from the California Department of Education (CDE) highlights key concepts and guidelines selected from the ELA/ELD Framework regarding the foundational skills of reading that will support students in becoming independent readers who are capable of making the transition from early foundational literacy to content based literacy.
The California Department of Education (CDE) provides State Board of Education adopted English Language Arts/English Language Development (ELA/ELD) Framework.
This article provides suggestions to promote positive home-school connections between families and teachers.
This document provides a list of some local and national websites sponsored by libraries and links to research articles. The list also offers descriptions of collaborations between public libraries and early childhood education.
This report describes and analyses a successful effort to create a school-community connector, a person whose job it is to find and build relationships with a wide range of neighborhood assets (residents, voluntary associations, local institutions, businesses) and then connect them to the neighborhood school.
This article discusses the lack of onsite daycare at tech companies.
This resource details the importance of youth engagement and the positive effects associated with empowering youth to participate in the community.
This article reviews the importance of developing a link between schools and the community.
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) can make learning more accessible to more students. This article provides 4 steps to implement UDL into a classroom.
Resources specifically for early learners and the development of early numeracy and counting and cardinality skills.
YouCubed is a free K-12 math resource from Stanford University's Graduate School of Education. Tasks are activities that can be filtered by grade, level of difficulty, concept, MP standard, and topic. They can be downloaded as PDFs.
This article summarizes research indicating the importance of passing Algebra I, as well as provides recommendations for when students should take Algebra I.
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