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
Two-page Parents’ Guides to Student Success (Color)
Color versions of the two-page Parent Guides
Color versions of the two-page Parent Guides
Four-page Parents’ Guides to Student Success (Black and white)
Black and white versions of the four-page Parent Guides
Black and white versions of the four-page Parent Guides
Four-page Parents’ Guides to Student Success (Color)
Color versions of the four-page Parent Guides
Color versions of the four-page Parent Guides
Who: Council of the Great City Schools
Where:http://www.cgcs.org/domain/36 .
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!
