Aligning Your Curriculum to the Common Core State Standards (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781452216478)

Avoid "analysis paralysis" and just get started!

The Milken Award-winning educator and author of Using Power Standards to Build an Aligned Curriculum shows how to implement the new Common Core State Standards. This book outlines his proven process for building a guaranteed and viable local curriculum based on the CCSS, and includes:

• A system for creating local standards from the CCSS
• Methods for connecting the common, formative assessments to quarterly instructional objectives
• Ways to scaffold learning expectations

Readers will find helpful charts and graphs plus access to Internet-based software for mapping the CCSS to classroom instruction.