Welcome to the first installment of the California Technology Assistance Project (CTAP) SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium News. In this and future releases, we will be including information to help you stay informed, plan, gear up, and be ready for the SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) assessments that are scheduled to begin in July 2014.

Future articles will include: Sample Assessment Items, Getting Your Infrastructure Ready, Preparing Teachers for SBAC, and Preparing Students for SBAC. Also included will be a listing of important dates, web links, subscription information, and the most recent update from the SBAC CDE News.
 

Web Links:

SBAC External Website - http://www.smarterbalanced.org

CDE’s SBAC Website - http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/sa/smarterbalanced.asp

Riverside County Office of Education Common Core State Standards Website - http://rcoe.us/edServices/commonCore.html

San Bernardino County Office of Education Common Core State Standards Website - 

http://commoncore.sbcss.k12.ca.us/ 

Subscribe to the CDE listservs:

Join the CDE SBAC electronic mailing list by sending a blank e-mail to subscribe-sbac@mlist.cde.ca.gov.

Join the CDE Common Core State Standards Resources listserv by sending a blank e-mail to join-commoncore@mlist.cde.ca.gov.