Getting Started with Arizona’s Common Core Standards Tool Box

This “Getting Started” tool box was designed to support educators before and during the implementation of Arizona’s Common Core Standards. This webpage will be continually updated as new samples and sources of instructional materials and services become available.

The Arizona Department of Education provides the following menu of services and resources but does not endorse any program or service advertised through associated links or websites. The $ icon indicates that a fee may be associated with specific services or resources.

Getting Started Tool Box
Arizona’s Common Core Standards General Overview Handout – PDF | ACCS General Information Website
Achieve: Achieving the Common Core Achieve has developed materials to help states, districts, and others understand the organization and content of the standards and the content and evidence base used to support the standards. Achieve Website
WestEd *NEW* WestEd has launched a new website of research-based services and free resources to help schools, districts, and states implement the Common Core standards. The new site offers more than 30 free resources and site visitors can read interviews with WestEd experts in multiple education areas including early childhood education, response to intervention, English language learners, and science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). WestEd Common Core Website
engageNY EngageNY was developed and is maintained by the New York State Department of Education. This site contains materials to help New York and other states, districts, and schools understand the Common Core content and to provide resources to support the implementation of the Common Core Standards. EngageNY Website
The Hunt Institute The Hunt Institute offers short video vignettes expanding on key features of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), all created by writers of the CCSS. The Hunt Institute Video Library on You Tube
Common Core State Standard Initiative
The Arizona School Boards Association Are you ready for THE COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS? The Arizona School Boards Association has created a two page overview for school board members to learn more about the Common Core. Handout – PDF | ASBA Website
English Language Arts	Mathematics
Overview of Arizona’s Common Core Standards – English Language Arts/Literacy	Overview of Arizona’s Common Core Standards – Mathematics
Key Points in English Language Arts (Corestandards.org)	Key Points in Mathematics (Corestandards.org)
How to Read the Standards (Corestandards.org)	How to Read the Grade Level Standards (Corestandards.org)
Revised Publishers’ Criteria for the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts and Literacy, Grades K-2 [corestandards.org revised 05/16/12]	Standards for Mathematical Practice (Corestandards.org)
Revised Publishers’ Criteria for the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts and Literacy, Grades 3-12 [corestandards.org revised 04/12/12]	Mathematics Glossary (Corestandards.org)
	Tools for the Common Core Standards in Mathematics Blog
	NGA Center/CCSSO Mathematics Common Core Toolbox
	K-8 Publishers’ Criteria for the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics  [corestandards.org 7/20/12]