Topic: Academic Standards

This manual from the New Mexico Public Education Department was developed to support teachers, schools, and districts in understanding the research behind high-quality instructional materials and their impact on student outcomes. The manual also explains New Mexico’s process for...

This website provides rubrics developed by the Mississippi Department of Education, in partnership with Mississippi school districts and teachers, to help teachers identify high-quality instructional materials. The site includes rubrics for English language arts, mathematics, social studies, and science....

In this multi-page infographic, Ed Reports provides research and information related to the impact of high-quality instructional materials on student outcomes....

This blog post from The Center on Standards, Alignment, Instruction, and Learning provides insights from state and district leaders engaged in leading standards implementation efforts. The author provides information on their lessons learned, recommendations for supporting English learner students...

This document presents three principles for the design of high-quality professional learning aligned to student standards: Professional learning must be “content-focused,” “teacher- and student-centered,” and “instructionally relevant and actionable.” Achieve the Core developed the principles based on a review...

This guide, published through a partnership with the University of Texas Austin and The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, highlights challenges faced by teachers in their implementation of evidence-based adolescent literacy practices. It also provides guidance and detailed...

This report from the National Center on Educational Outcomes tells the story of Hawai’i’s work and lessons learned while building and using progress maps for the state’s reading and mathematics standards for Grades K-8. The story is told by...

This is the third whitepaper in the National Comprehensive Center’s series on designing curricula for diversity. It provides state and local education leaders recommendations on the use of the Equity and Inclusion Framework for Curriculum Development in the design...

This is the second of three whitepapers on designing curricula for diversity. It provides the step-by-step process for using the Equity and Inclusion for Curriculum Design (EI-CD). Additionally, it describes how the framework can be used to design and...

In this first of three whitepapers on designing curricula for diversity, the authors explain why equity and inclusion should be addressed in standardized curriculum materials and introduce the Equity and Inclusion Framework for Curriculum Design (EI-CD)....