Welcome to the Curriculum and Instruction

CCSS Wiki Page

We are pleased to provide this resource to assist educators as we enter the implementation process of the Common Core State Standards in Arkansas. As information or resources become available, ideas emerge, successes are shared or exciting strategies are discovered, we will post them here. Below is a link to a step by step introduction and plan to assist districts with implementation of the Common Core State Standards:

What Every Arkansas Educator Needs to Know About Common Core State Standards

  Copy of CCSS Information Resources Guide 5-9-12 revised.xlsx

5-9-2012 CCSS Information Resources Guide.pdf  

AR Common Core Strategic Plan Curriculum.pdf  

Arkansas Reading Association

Presentations 11-17-11 Reading Courses    

CCSS Presentation 11-18-11 CCSS 

At a recent Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) meeting, executives challenged state leaders to guide teachers to consider what content could be revised, minimized, shifted, and/or extracted to provide teachers the necessary time to teach the deep content required with the CCSS.  The following Unit Evaluation Guide will assist in this process.