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Common Core Minute from principal's weekly bulletins.
 * @http://media.msde.state.md.us/2011/TOP/TEN.wmv - MSDE has finalized the production of a video on Teachers’ Top 10 Questions about Race to the Top. The video addresses questions related to the four RTTT assurances with responses coming from our National Teacher of the Year, local Superintendents, an Assistant Superintendent, and a Local Accountability Coordinator. 
 * [] -Common Core Standards
 * Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) - The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) is a consortium of 24 states working together to develop a common set of K-12 assessments in English and math anchored in what it takes to be ready for college and careers. The PARCC assessments will be ready for states to administer during the 2014-15 school year. PARCC has established this website where they will post information and work done by the consortium. __In the Classroom__: provides guidance and support that will help teachers bring the Common Core State Standards to life in their classrooms. To support educators in their efforts to provide their students with a first class education, over time this section will contain a number of different tools: __Content Frameworks Sample Instructional Units Sample Assessment Tasks Text Complexity Tool Educator Cadres Professional Development Assessment Modules College-Ready Tools__  and __the PARCC Assessment.__
 * __http://www.corestandards.org/assets/CCSSI_ELA%20Standards.pdf__  - Reading and writing in the content fields (content literacy) represents one of the major changes in the recently adopted Common Core Standards. In only a few short years, content teachers will be held accountable for supporting literacy standards in their content instruction. The Common Core Standards for both reading and writing in each of the areas of History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical subjects. This does not mean that content area teachers have to become reading teachers – a common complaint leveled at the idea of literacy-based content standards. What it does mean is that content area teachers will be held accountable for supporting the literacy skills necessary for students to function successfully in a complex and integrated world.