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Cyberschool Offers Teachers Online Lessons to Prepare for Common Core

State's new website provides resources ranging from lesson plans to videos as NJ begins phasing in tough new standards

by John Mooney, NJSpotlight.com

What it is: NJCore.org – New Jersey Educator Resource Exchange.

What it does: The website launched yesterday provides more than 2,000 resources for teachers -- including lesson plans, activities, videos, curricula and assessments -- for teaching to the Common Core State Standards that are being phased in by the state over the next several years. The site also lets teachers to share their own resources and rate resources posted by others.

What it means: The website is another tool in the Christie administration’s public campaign to raise awareness -- and win acceptance -- of the new standards and their related testing, which are slated to start in the next school year. Last week, the administration released the results of the state’s latest student assessments, with a heavy emphasis on the transition that the testing is going through in order to phase in the standards. In addition, it has held more than 500 workshops across the state, attended by nearly 15,000 educators, to help prepare for the new standards.

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For teachers: “As we work together to track the transition from our current standards to the Common Core, there has been an understandable expectation that teachers will get the guidance to what they need to be effective,” state Education Commissioner Chris Cerf said yesterday. “Now, with a single click, they will be able to access the resources to any (requested) topic.”

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