Teacher Resources

Digital Library Training Videos

The CDE is pleased to announce a new training video for Digital Library users titled, “Exploring the Smarter Balanced Digital Library.” This 29-minute video is presented in three segments:

  • Segment 1 describes the four attributes of the formative assessment process (9:13).

  • Segment 2 provides instructions for logging into and navigating the Digital Library (15.51).

  • Segment 3 demonstrates the cross-state collaboration features of the Digital Library (4:07).

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Helpful Sites

  • Inside Mathematics

  • Classroom video clips of teachers using CCSS

  • Edutopia

  • Classroom video clips & blogs

  • The Hunt Institute

  • CCSS Overview, Shifts and Literacy and Mathematical Practice Video Clips

  • Achieve the Core

  • "Shift" Handouts and CCSS PD Modules

  • Tulare County Office of Education

  • ELA/Literacy CCSS Lesson Templates

  • Scroll down the page until you see the "ELA CCCSS Templates" heading.

  • Engage New York

  • CCSS resources being used in New York

  • SBAC Online Practice Items

  • ELA

  • Math

  • SBAC Released Items

  • Scroll down the page until you see the "Item/Task Specifications" heading.  These are the released Items that have the supporting documentation, including rubrics and text complexity descriptions.

  • ETS Computer Based Practice Items

  • Teaching Channel

  • Videos on the Common Core