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Need help navigating the actual PARCC test?

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Need help navigating the actual PARCC test?

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Here is where your students can practice with the technology!

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Here are the PARCC rubrics!

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New Meridian has a proven approach to test development. With involvement from educators across the country, New Meridian develops assessments that foster deep learning and require critical thinking.

The New Meridian Resource Center provides access to high quality resources to support educators - especially educators in states where New Meridian items are being used on summative assessments. These materials include released item sets for both Math and English Language Arts/Literacy, answer keys, scoring rubrics, and scored/annotated Sample Student Responses.

The New Meridian Item Banks are fully aligned to Common Core State Standards and compatible standards. There is a wide range of item types of varying levels of complexity that are accessible to all students.

A significant number of these assessment items and supporting instructional materials are available here on the New Meridian Resource Center.

Visit New Meridian to learn about its test development processes.

New Meridian Corporation is a 501c(3) nonprofit based in Austin, TX. In 2017 CCSSO selected New Meridian Corporation, by competitive procurement, to be the exclusive agent authorized to license test content owned by CCSSO.

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Ensuring Every Student Succeeds - PARCC Resource Center

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New Meridian has a proven approach to test development. With involvement from educators across the country, New Meridian develops assessments that foster deep learning and require critical thinking. The New Meridian Resource Center provides access to high quality resources to support educators - especially educators in states where New Meridian items are being used on summative assessments.

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What does it look like for a student to success in demonstrating their understanding on PARCC? Here it is!

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New Meridian has a proven approach to test development. With involvement from educators across the country, New Meridian develops assessments that foster deep learning and require critical thinking.

The New Meridian Resource Center provides access to high quality resources to support educators - especially educators in states where New Meridian items are being used on summative assessments. These materials include released item sets for both Math and English Language Arts/Literacy, answer keys, scoring rubrics, and scored/annotated Sample Student Responses.

The New Meridian Item Banks are fully aligned to Common Core State Standards and compatible standards. There is a wide range of item types of varying levels of complexity that are accessible to all students.

A significant number of these assessment items and supporting instructional materials are available here on the New Meridian Resource Center.

Visit New Meridian to learn about its test development processes.

New Meridian Corporation is a 501c(3) nonprofit based in Austin, TX. In 2017 CCSSO selected New Meridian Corporation, by competitive procurement, to be the exclusive agent authorized to license test content owned by CCSSO.

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Ensuring Every Student Succeeds - PARCC Resource Center

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New Meridian has a proven approach to test development. With involvement from educators across the country, New Meridian develops assessments that foster deep learning and require critical thinking. The New Meridian Resource Center provides access to high quality resources to support educators - especially educators in states where New Meridian items are being used on summative assessments.

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Need some clarity? Here all the standards are clarified in terms of the PARCC assessment:

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New Meridian has a proven approach to test development. With involvement from educators across the country, New Meridian develops assessments that foster deep learning and require critical thinking.

The New Meridian Resource Center provides access to high quality resources to support educators - especially educators in states where New Meridian items are being used on summative assessments. These materials include released item sets for both Math and English Language Arts/Literacy, answer keys, scoring rubrics, and scored/annotated Sample Student Responses.

The New Meridian Item Banks are fully aligned to Common Core State Standards and compatible standards. There is a wide range of item types of varying levels of complexity that are accessible to all students.

A significant number of these assessment items and supporting instructional materials are available here on the New Meridian Resource Center.

Visit New Meridian to learn about its test development processes.

New Meridian Corporation is a 501c(3) nonprofit based in Austin, TX. In 2017 CCSSO selected New Meridian Corporation, by competitive procurement, to be the exclusive agent authorized to license test content owned by CCSSO.

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Ensuring Every Student Succeeds - PARCC Resource Center

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New Meridian has a proven approach to test development. With involvement from educators across the country, New Meridian develops assessments that foster deep learning and require critical thinking. The New Meridian Resource Center provides access to high quality resources to support educators - especially educators in states where New Meridian items are being used on summative assessments.

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The Teaching Channel and PARCC have teamed up to SHOW teachers how they can plan with the assessment in mind. Check it out!

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For many of us, the new year brings new assessments - and undoubtedly, some anxiety. This can be a great time to reflect on what you and your students have achieved so far, as well as think about what's ahead. While you obviously need to think about the specific needs of your own students, it often helps to talk things through with colleagues. When I was teaching middle school, my grade level team addressed our worries head on by getting together to review our instructional planning - making sure we were giving our students plenty of opportunities to demonstrate standards. Over the past few months at Teaching Channel, we've been trying to help you with this task.

Next up, we've partnered with PARCC (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers) to bring you a set of tools and a process for carefully analyzing how standards, evidence, and tasks interact, and applying these understandings to inform instructional decisions. This process encourages you to think about answers to important questions, such as:

What do students need to know and be able to do in order to answer a sample assessment "item"?

How do I design instructional tasks that demonstrate standards in order to prepare students for assessments?

How do I choose complex and meaningful texts?

How do I develop worthwhile math problems?

To learn more about the PARCC processes and tools, check out this overview video.

To see tools specifically designed for the ELA/literacy and math standards, check out the videos below.

ELA Tools

If ELA is your focus, take a look at the introduction to the process, Planning ELA Instruction with PARCC Tools. Then, download the ELA Performance-Based Assessment Tasks Flowchart and watch these six Teaching Channel videos sequentially to see a process for analyzing and learning from sample assessment items.

1. Identifying Texts Worth Reading

2. Connecting Texts to ELA Standards

3. The Power of Pairing Texts to Demonstrate Standards

4. Assessing Text Complexity

5. Unpacking Sample Assessment Items

6. Designing Purposeful ELA Instruction

Math Tools

If you are planning math instruction, download the Math Performance-Based Assessment Tasks Flowchart and watch the introduction, Planning Math Instruction with PARCC Tools, then watch the three-step videos for the math process.

1. Developing Worthwhile Math Problems

2. Aligning to Math Standards

3. Determining Instructional Approaches for Math

You'll see that these tools and processes can help you and your colleagues make instructional choices that match the rigor and richness of the standards and assessments. And, even if you don't teach in these subjects areas or in a Common Core state, the reflective process could easily be adapted to other subject areas, as well as different local or state standards.

So, take a look, gather a team of colleagues, and try a little unpacking. Once you try it, let us know how it worked!
Gretchen Vierstra taught middle school for ten years in the San Francisco Bay Area. During her 15+ years in education, she's also been a department chair, new teacher coach, curriculum developer, and policy analyst. She is an Education Content Manager at Teaching Channel.

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Planning To Assess Students: How To Align Your Instruction

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For many of us, the new year brings new assessments - and undoubtedly, some anxiety. This can be a great time to reflect on what you and your students have achieved so far, as well as think about what's ahead.

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Check out items from old PARCC tests - these are great ways to prepare your students and practice the standards!

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New Meridian has a proven approach to test development. With involvement from educators across the country, New Meridian develops assessments that foster deep learning and require critical thinking.

The New Meridian Resource Center provides access to high quality resources to support educators - especially educators in states where New Meridian items are being used on summative assessments. These materials include released item sets for both Math and English Language Arts/Literacy, answer keys, scoring rubrics, and scored/annotated Sample Student Responses.

The New Meridian Item Banks are fully aligned to Common Core State Standards and compatible standards. There is a wide range of item types of varying levels of complexity that are accessible to all students.

A significant number of these assessment items and supporting instructional materials are available here on the New Meridian Resource Center.

Visit New Meridian to learn about its test development processes.

New Meridian Corporation is a 501c(3) nonprofit based in Austin, TX. In 2017 CCSSO selected New Meridian Corporation, by competitive procurement, to be the exclusive agent authorized to license test content owned by CCSSO.

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Ensuring Every Student Succeeds - PARCC Resource Center

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New Meridian has a proven approach to test development. With involvement from educators across the country, New Meridian develops assessments that foster deep learning and require critical thinking. The New Meridian Resource Center provides access to high quality resources to support educators - especially educators in states where New Meridian items are being used on summative assessments.

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Here are the PARCC practice tests for your students to try!

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New Meridian has a proven approach to test development. With involvement from educators across the country, New Meridian develops assessments that foster deep learning and require critical thinking.

The New Meridian Resource Center provides access to high quality resources to support educators - especially educators in states where New Meridian items are being used on summative assessments. These materials include released item sets for both Math and English Language Arts/Literacy, answer keys, scoring rubrics, and scored/annotated Sample Student Responses.

The New Meridian Item Banks are fully aligned to Common Core State Standards and compatible standards. There is a wide range of item types of varying levels of complexity that are accessible to all students.

A significant number of these assessment items and supporting instructional materials are available here on the New Meridian Resource Center.

Visit New Meridian to learn about its test development processes.

New Meridian Corporation is a 501c(3) nonprofit based in Austin, TX. In 2017 CCSSO selected New Meridian Corporation, by competitive procurement, to be the exclusive agent authorized to license test content owned by CCSSO.

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Ensuring Every Student Succeeds - PARCC Resource Center

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New Meridian has a proven approach to test development. With involvement from educators across the country, New Meridian develops assessments that foster deep learning and require critical thinking. The New Meridian Resource Center provides access to high quality resources to support educators - especially educators in states where New Meridian items are being used on summative assessments.