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NYSED-Sponsored Effort Ongoing Through 2013
WASHINGTON, D.C. (February 21, 2013)—Common Core has just completed the third in a series of mathematics training events on behalf of the New York State Education Department (NYSED) designed to help educators statewide implement the Common Core Learning Standards.
Attended by more than 300 math educators, superintendents, BOCES personnel, and others charged with teaching to the new standards, the Network Team Institutes are train-the-trainer sessions that provide attendees with what they need to pass along the training in their home districts. “NY has shown an extraordinary level of commitment to supporting teachers as they prepare to help their students meet the rigors of the new mathematics standards. Common Core is proud to be NYSED’s partner in this work,” said Lynne Munson, Common Core president and executive director.
The focus of the training Common Core has provided is on the Instructional Shifts in the new standards and on how to best utilize A Story of Units, a comprehensive pre-kindergarten through fifth-grade mathematics curriculum Common Core is developing. Created by Common Core under contracts with NYSED, A Story of Units is a carefully sequenced, detailed curriculum intended to help teachers meet the world-class standards the CCLS represent. Common Core also has a contract with NYSED to develop mathematics curriculum for grades 6-8 and 9-12.
The design for the curricula is based on work pioneered by Louisiana State University mathematician Scott Baldridge, who holds that mathematics is most effectively taught as a logical, engaging story. “I have a much deeper understanding of how to implement the Common Core State Standards,” remarked one teacher during the latest Network Team Institute. “The curriculum map of math modules is wonderful!”
NYSED and Common Core anticipate that development of the entire curriculum will be completed by the end of the calendar year and that modules will be available well in advance of when teachers will need them in the fall. The next installment of the capacity-building Network Team Institutes will be in May.
Common Core’s mathematics curriculum is available at NYSED’s website (engageny.org) and at Common Core’s website (commoncore.org)
Common Core is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization that creates curriculum tools and promotes programs, policies, and initiatives at the local, state, and federal levels that provide students with challenging, rigorous instruction in the full range of liberal arts and sciences. Common Core was established in 2007 and is not affiliated with the Common Core State Standards.
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