Topic: Academic Standards

The Alabama Coaching Framework turns superintendent, Dr. Eric Mackey’s vision to provide innovative support to teachers into a reality. The framework sets the standard for how coaches in any content area conduct their work in Alabama. This evidence-based framework...

This brief from the Center on Standards & Assessment Implementation (CSAI) provides a summary of six states’ standards implementation practices related to providing professional learning activities for educators on new academic standards. States included in the scan are: Colorado,...

This report provides action steps that principals can take in five areas to support strong standards implementation in their schools. The five areas aligned to the Wallace Foundation’s research on essential principal practices associated with increasing student achievement are:...

This overview of the Toolkit for Evaluating Alignment of Instructional and Assessment Materials to the Common Core State Standards provides a one-page description of each tool included in the toolkit, including when they should be used and by whom....

This update from the Center on Standards and Assessment Implementation provides definitions of standards, curriculum, and assessments and explains what alignment means in the context of curriculum and assessment. Following this overview, the brief provides summaries of alignment processes...

This rubric, based on rigorous research, is designed for use by practitioners and university faculty who are reviewing Grades K–5 reading/language arts instructional materials. The rubric is organized by content area for each grade span, Grades K–2 and Grades...

This document was developed by the Colorado Department of Education as a brief overview for parents when the state updated its academic standards in 2016. The document includes an explanation of what standards are, how they connect to the...