Dialogue Guides
Source Document: A Whole Child Approach to Education and the Common Core State Standards Initiative. ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development).
Available at: http://www.ascd.org/ASCD/pdf/siteASCD/policy/CCSS-and-Whole-Child-one-pager.pdf
Dialogue Starter:
A Whole Child Approach to Education and the Common Core State Standards Initiative
Source Document:
Application to Students with Disabilities. The National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers: Common Core State Standards Initiative
Available at: http://www.corestandards.org/assets/application-to-students-with-disabilities.pdf
Dialogue Starter: Common Core State Standards and Students with Disabilities
Source Document:
Common Core State Standards Parents' Guide to Student Success
National PTA Office of Public Policy. PTA Issue Brief: PTA Issue Brief: “Common Core State Standards Initiative". April 2010.
Pages 1-4. Available at http://www.pta.org/files/Issue_Brief-CCSSI.pdf
Dialogue Starter: Common Core State Standards Initiative
Source Document:
Common Core State Standards: A Tool for Improving Education
National Education Association (NEA) Policy Brief: “Common Core State Standards: A Tool for Improving Education”, NEA Education Policy and Practice Department, Center for Great Public Schools, Washington, D.C., 2011, Available at
http://www.nea.org/assets/docs/HE/PB30_CommonCoreStandards10.pdf
- Dialogue Starter: What Can the Standards Accomplish? (refers to pages 1 and 4-5 of source document)
- Dialogue Starter:What do the Common Core State Standards cover? (refers to pages 2-3 of source document)
- Dialogue Starter: What is Special about These Standards? (refers to pages 3-4 of source document)
Source Document:On the Road to Implementation: Aligning Assessments with the Common Core Standards, Achieve. August 2010; pages 1-3 Available at: http://www.achieve.org/files/FINAL-CCSSImplementationGuide.pdf
Dialogue Starter:
On the Road to Implementation: Aligning Assessments with the Common Core Standards
Dialogue Guides
Dialogue Guides are models for conducting interactive discussions across stakeholders. Each Guide contains one topical document that all who come to the table access in order to start with the same knowledge base; and a set of reaction and application questions for a facilitator to support the assembled group to build areas of agreement and develop action-plan(s).
To gain a better understanding of the facilitator’s roles and responsibilities in conducting dialogue, we invite you to read and download the Dialogue Guide Facilitator Handbook.