Common+Curriculum

toc (Common Curriculum, [], is a "real time, collaborative" lesson planning tool for teachers & schools; essentially CC is an online lesson planbook for teachers that comes with built in templates that make lesson planning simple. The website also easily connects to state standards, a feature that makes this site stand out from other similar tools. Teachers can make their own account for free or schools can pay for teachers to collaborate and share their lessons easily with one another. Teachers can easily see their lesson plans for a single class, or everything they are teaching with multiple views ranging from a detailed daily breakdown, to a quick month view, to being able to see your whole year planned out in a glance. Common Curriculum is very user friendly and along with boosting about its online accessibility, the tool also has easy print buttons available that allows you to convert your lessons to a pdf and export them as you please, making creating and sharing your lesson plans easier than ever.



=About= Common Curriculum was created by Scott Messinger & Robbie Earle in conjunction with a team of teachers from Baltimore, Maryland. Before founding Cc, Scott taught 1st grade and Robbie taught middle school social studies in Baltimore City Public Schools.

The website is free for individual teachers and schools that want to access all of the collaborative features can pay $90 per teacher per year for a group. Groups all teachers to view, comment, and edit each other's planbooks in real time.

=Specific Tools= Common Curriculum is a lesson planning website that helps teachers "stay more organized, prepared, and planned so that you can raise your students’ achievement."

Specific Tool #1
The tool is an easy to use website that allows teachers to create lesson plans in conjunction with state standards. The site allows teachers to create individualized lesson plan templates and automatically inserts standards from all 50 states. Teachers can then see all of the lessons that they have created in a variety of different formats and collaborate with other teachers in their group or export and print their lessons.

How to Use
To use simply create a free account and start making lesson books. You can use the premade templates or spend some time creating your own for future use. The website features excellent tutorials and easy to understand step by step instructions that make using the tool extremely simple.

=Implementation Ideas= This tool is available for teachers of all subjects and grade levels. As this is a planning tool, it is not subject specific and useful to any teacher regardless of grade level or subject.

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