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What is Common Core?

What is Common Core?

This week on teacher tips, we're going to dive in to the Common Core State Standards. If you're an educational teacher inside of a public school, likelihoods are that you have been impacted by the Common Core State Standards in some way over the past couple of years. In this presentation, we're going to break down, what exactly the state standards are? How we access them and how we use them in our own classroom? Lets go ahead and dive right in by understanding where the Common Core comes from. The official authors of the common core, are the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices, often abbreviated as the NGA center. And the Council of Chief State School Officers also abbreviated as the CCSSO. Now, while these organizations are given the credit for writing the actual Common Course State Standards. The standards themselves were developed by teachers, principles, parents and a variety of other voices that helped shaped, what was required of our students to be college…

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