Common+Core+and+LDC

LDC - Literacy Design Collaborative:
The Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) offers a template approach to create LDC tasks, modules, and courses designed to teach students to meet the new Common Core Literacy Standards (CCSS) while also learning to meet content demands at high levels of performance. The Literacy Design Collaborative is a project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

__**LDC Booklet:** **The 1.0 Guidebook to LDC**__ The Guidebook is our core explanation of the LDC framework and how teachers are implementing it across the country.

__**LDC Rules of the Road**__ The LDC Design Team created an instructional system that is now known as “LDC.” This document establishes the technical specifications for this system. We call these specifications “The LDC Framework.” The audience is current LDC project leaders and potential LDC partners interested in designing LDC modules.

__**LDC Template Tasks: **__ LDC template tasks are fill-in-the-blank “shells” built off the Common Core standards. They allow teachers to insert the texts to be read, writing to be produced, and content to be addressed. When filled in, template tasks create high-quality student assignments that develop reading, writing, and thinking skills in the context of learning science, history, English, and other subjects. Click on the link to find the LDC templates you need to create your modules. Note that there are three broad catagories of "writing tasks": Remember also to __download__ the relevant modules before beginning to edit the template. [|LDC Module Development Templates]
 * **Argumentative** (this requires the student to develop a thesis or argument; explain the evidence for the thesis; acknowledge the evidence for the "counter-thesis"; and come to a conclusion)
 * **Informational-Explanatory** (this is the more common assignment where you write a straightforward expository essay)
 * **Narrative** (this is simple storytelling that follows a recognizable chronology and seeks to explain cause and effect relationships over time)

__**LDC Sample Modules**__
LDC Modules help teachers teach students to succeed on assignments created using LDC Template Tasks. Click on the link below to see sample modules based on the LDC approach. [|LDC Sample Modules]

Common Core Standards - New York State:
[|New York State Common Core Standards Website] The following document is available as a PDF file that can be downloaded by clicking on the link below. Note also that this document is organized as a 3-column chart listing a progression of student skills for:
 * ** Grades 6-8 **
 * ** Grades 9-10 **
 * ** Grades 11-12 **



[|NYS Common Core Implementation Timeline] Timeline for the full implementation / integration of the Common Core Standards.
 * [|Engage NY Common Core Resources] **As part of the New York State Network Team training Institute, the NY State Education Department has developed EngageNY, a website for Common Core implementation and other educator resources. A video series explaining the new standards, an overview of the necessary instructional shifts, and some curriculum exemplars are all available on the EngageNY website.

Common Core Standards - New York City:
[|NYC Common Core Standards] New NYC DOE website with common core resources.

[|Success at the Core] Website with Common Core PD lessons. Includes videos of classes.