{"id":15954,"date":"2013-01-11T13:05:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T18:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=15954"},"modified":"2013-01-11T13:05:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T18:05:14","slug":"teachers-get-help-with-common-core-lessons-through-cpalms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/01\/11\/teachers-get-help-with-common-core-lessons-through-cpalms\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers Get Help With Common Core Lessons Through CPALMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15955\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 298px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/01\/11\/teachers-get-help-with-common-core-lessons-through-cpalms\/teacher-with-laptop\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15955\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15955\" title=\"teacher with laptop\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/01\/teacher-with-laptop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Administrador Galeria Uninter\/flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Florida teachers are benefiting from resources about Common Core through CPALMS.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As states start phasing in Common Core standards in public school classrooms, no Common Core textbooks have been written yet, and <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/01\/08\/why-states-are-designing-two-tests-for-common-core-standards\/\">new assessments are still being developed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/01\/07\/how-teachers-are-creating-new-lessons-for-common-core-state-standards\/\">teachers are creating their own lesson plans<\/a> as they begin to implement the standards.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re not doing it alone.<\/p>\n<p>A Race to the Top grant from the U.S. Department of Education funds a website called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpalms.org\/CPALMS\/initiatives.aspx?Redirected=1\">CPALMS: Florida\u2019s platform for educators to Collaborate, Plan, Align, Learn, Motivate, Share.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s full of free resources that have gone through a rigorous review process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpalms.org\/Standards\/Common_Core_Standards.aspx\">We\u2019re building up to 3,000 original lesson plans for the Common Core<\/a> and the science standards in Florida,\u201d Project Director Rabieh Razzouk said. \u201cWe provide content and tools to support the learning of Common Core and the instruction planning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe work started in February of last year,\u201d said Razzouk, and now \u201cCPALMS is the official source for the standards in Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Before anything is posted to the website, CPALMS uses small teams of local facilitators to review content for accuracy and alignment to the standards. Then, subject area experts and peer educators from around the state are consulted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe work with teachers throughout the state to develop units, not just individual lessons, to cover a whole topic,\u201d Razzouk said.<\/p>\n<p>CPALMS seems to be working well, based on testimonials from teachers like Katie Brown. She teaches 6<sup>th<\/sup> grade math in Manatee County.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way I\u2019ve been using it lately is to search for keywords for mathematical concepts, and it links me right to the standards that relate to that concept,\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n<p>CPALMS is developing lesson study toolkits to support review teams. They cover math, science, and English\/language arts in grades K-12.<\/p>\n<p>The new<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpalms.org\/iCPALMS\/iCPALMS_Tools.aspx?Redirected=1\"> iCPALMS platform<\/a> is also part of the mix, offering an assortment of web applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As states start phasing in Common Core standards in public school classrooms, no Common Core textbooks have been written yet, and new assessments are still being developed. So, teachers are creating their own lesson plans as they begin to implement the standards. They\u2019re not doing it alone. A Race to the Top grant from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[1157,784,1017],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}