General Curriculum Information

Check out ASCD website http://ascd.org. Many of their books come with study guides that would support professional development activities at the school level. There are also audio programs and additional training through conferences and workshops available.

Noteworthy Perspectives: Teaching to the Core—Reading, Writing, and Mathematics
The guiding question of this issue is, What conditions are necessary to create schools and classrooms in which all students are capable of meeting high standards? Particular emphasis is given to mathematics, and reading and writing instruction.

This journal highlights findings from recent research related to helping students reach high standards. Using examples from schools that have adopted these research-based practices, this issue of Noteworthy focuses on making changes where we know they matter most — in the classroom.

This issue of Noteworthy is based in part on Standards in Classroom Practice: Research Synthesis, a McREL synthesis of research on effective standards-based practices.
http://www.mcrel.org/topics/Instruction/products/59/

Definitions of Standards
http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd/menuitem.2a5fd0d221f7fffddeb3ffdb62108a0c/

Alaska’s Content and Performance Standards, Grade Level Expectations
http://www.eed.state.ak.us/standards/

Educators’ Resource Guide to the Alaska Standards
http://www.eed.state.ak.us/tls/Frameworks2/home.shtml