Aligning Early Learning Standards and Curricula to the Common Core

Contact: Carrie Germeroth

Audience(s): Teachers and Administrators

Service Description:

We develop early learning standards and benchmarks to help early childhood educators prepare their students for the increased rigor of the Common Core State Standards while maintaining developmentally appropriate teaching methods. As we’ve done for Colorado and North Dakota, our early childhood team can guide you through your own standards development and alignment process.

Key Ideas:

McREL can help:

• Develop early learning guidelines
• Align states’ early learning guidelines with the Common Core
• Develop and align early childhood assessments and curricula with state standards or Common Core
• Provide professional development to administrators and classroom teachers on how to incorporate new standards and assessment into their instructional practice