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One cannot benefit from or use a standards document that demands more time than a teacher or administrator has each day; thus, I seek here to share with you, my fellow educators, these indispensable resources: concise translations of the standards I currently use in my classroom in California, the Common Core standards, along with detailed correlation indexes showing readers in key non–Common Core states exactly which pages of this book have relevant information for them. I created this book in part for myself, to make my job easier as I plan my lessons every evening, write my books, or prepare the workshops I give around the country.

What I offer you here is a compass of sorts to help you—whether you are an administrator or teacher, department chair or district curriculum supervisor, a professor, or a student teacher training to join us in this richly rewarding enterprise called education—understand and make better use of your standards. Here you will find several features I have designed and refined with the help of many teachers, curriculum supervisors, and superintendents with whom I have met and worked around the country in recent years. Because California has adopted the Common Core standards, these standards are naturally the basis for my plan. Still, I think you’ll find the features, in combination with the correlation indexes at the front of this book, will provide you with a working compass to navigate your own state standards.

Additional key features, each developed with you in mind, include the following: