Our Favorite Content Resources

The Council of the Great City Schools outlines a framework for foundational literacy skills instruction around six principles to ensure that MLs develop the necessary literacy skills to engage with complex text in all subject areas successfully.

This online tool can identify the high-value Tier 2 vocabulary in any text.

These lessons from Student Achievement Partners Close focus on rich text, high-quality text-dependent questions, and aligned culminating writing assignments.

ILA works to enhance literacy instruction through research and professional development.

This position paper from the National Council for Teachers of English presents some of the principles that guide the effective teaching of writing.

This article explores what science says about transfer and translanguaging.

UnboundEd offers a comprehensive, standards-aligned ELA curriculum for grades PK–12. These materials draw from the critically acclaimed EngageNY content and have been sequenced by experts in curriculum design and instructional implementation.

These documents from Student Achievement Partners name instructional content priorities in K–12 ELA for the 2020–21 academic year. 

The coherence map from Student Achievement Partners illustrates how the math standards are related and includes a sample task for each standard.

Illustrative Mathematics provides high-quality K–12 math curricula with tasks and content explanations for each standard.

These assessments from Student Achievement Partners are designed to illustrate the math shifts and expectations of college- and career-ready standards.

UnboundEd offers a comprehensive, standards-aligned math curriculum for grades PK–12. These materials draw from the critically acclaimed EngageNY content and have been sequenced by experts in curriculum design and instructional implementation.

YouCubed presents student tasks, professional development, and growth mindset research.

These documents from Student Achievement Partners name instructional content priorities in K–12 mathematics for the 2020–21 academic year.

This is the National Research Council’s evidence-based foundation that was used to develop the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).

This model is grounded in sound learning theory and used to facilitate the process of conceptual change through coherent learning experiences with a student-centered lens.

These tools can support science teachers in developing, adapting, and teaching with strongly aligned NGSS (or similar standards) materials.

This toolkit supports the evaluation and selection of materials aligned to the NGSS and similar science standards.

These elementary, middle, and high school units are aligned to the NGSS and are released and published individually after undergoing field testing. 

This resource describes how phenomena can be used in classrooms with NGSS and similar science standards to drive teaching and learning.

The STEM Teaching Tools site is currently focused on supporting the teaching of the NGSS. Each tool is focused on a specific issue and leverages the best knowledge from research and practice.

The American Museum of Natural History offers tools and training for the implementation of the NGSS and similar science standards with a focus on unit and assessment design.