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Back to School Parent Resources
Explaining the Common Core Standards
Welcome
back to school everyone!
Like many teachers, I want my student’s
parents to understand the Common Core State Standards. I am planning to send home a ‘Back to
School’ letter, which will start my Common Core Parent Awareness Campaign for
parents of English Language Learners (ELLs) at my school.
My
plan is to distribute this information over the next few months. By sending home monthly “Common Core
Information Letters” I hope to make sure parents understand the standards that
are connected with each elementary grade level and add some tools they can
employ at home to help support their child’s education.
Below
is a list of resources I found that are available in English and Spanish.
Who: National PTA
What: Grade level Parent Guides in English
and Spanish
The National PTA provides a
wealth of information! Click on
over to this site for K-8 and High School parent guides for English language
arts and mathematics (English and Spanish). They developed these guides to help parents become familiar
with the expectations for student performance at each grade. The guides include
“talking to the teacher” and activities parents can do with their children at
home.
The following description is taken from their website:
Parent Guides
Who: Council of the Great City Schools
What: Parent Letters in English and Spanish
This
informative resource in English and Spanish is from the Council of the Great
City Schools. The guides at this
site offer parents roadmaps to the Common Core. The roadmaps cover what K-8 students learn in English
Language Arts and Math. The menu
on the left hand side offers these “roadmaps” in Spanish.
Who: Education Northwest
What: Parent information letters in English
and Spanish
Education Northwest produced
a series called “Spotlight on the Common Core State Standards”. One of the issues in that series aims
to inform parents on what they need to know about the Common Core State
Standards (CCSS) and how the standards will influence teaching and
assessment.
The following description is taken from their website:
Spotlight on the Common Core State Standards - What Do Parents Need to
Know? A series published by
Education Northwest to keep regional stakeholders informed about the Common
Core initiative.
http://educationnorthwest.org/resource/1547
Let me know what resources that you use to keep your parents
up to date with the Common Core!
Happy Teaching!