The Common Core State Standards Edition - Third Edition The Common Core State Standards offer a shared language that ensures consistency and accountability, while also giving you the flexibility to design a curriculum that's right for your students. In this new edition of her classic text, Drake applies the essential principles of standards-based curriculum, instruction, and assessment to today's unique challenges.Focusing on multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary approaches, she provides guidance on: Unpacking the Common Core State Standards Planning assessment tasks Designing instructional strategies Developing daily activities Helping students connect essential questions to enduring understandingsIncluded are new examples of exemplary programs, discussion questions, a sample completed interdisciplinary curriculum and activity suggestions for building your own standards-based integrated curriculum.By Susan M. Drake