Video Library

About the Videos

The video library is an innovative and differentiated resource that brings the Common Core instructional shifts, teacher and leadership evaluation, and data driven instruction to life. The instructional videos capture teaching and evaluation along a developmental arc and tag for characteristics like grade level, subject area, Common Core Standards, instructional shifts and for 2013-2014, teacher and leader evaluation rubric indicators. Videos range in length from short 5 minute clips to longer views of lessons up to 40 minutes. Use these instructional videos to support your professional development and to push your thinking around what effective teaching looks like in practice as well as to identify growing edges of the teachers in these videos.

These instructional videos are possible thanks to the brave, enthusiastic, and supportive New York school districts, administrators, teachers, and students who believe in the power of video to drive professional learning around the Common Core. They've welcomed coaches and a video team into their schools and classrooms because they are excited to share their experiences about Common Core implementation.

Common Core Instruction: Making a claim using two texts with similar themes Common Core Instruction: Making a Claim Using Two Texts with Similar Themes Length (min:sec): 12:10 Grade 5/ELA/Literature	Common Core Instruction: Use modeling and tools to solve 3 digit subtraction problems Common Core Instruction: Use Modeling and Tools to Solve Three Digit Subtraction Problems Length (min:sec): 12:28 Grade 2/Math/Model and Regroup	A Portrait of a District Getting Smarter about the Core: Webster Central School District A Portrait of a District Getting Smarter about the Core: Webster Central School District Length (min:sec): 6:57 The Webster Central School District is getting smarter about the Common Core.
Video for Parents and Families about the Common Core Assessments Video for Parents and Families about the Common Core Assessments Length (min:sec): 1:55 Common Core Standards and the upcoming Grade 3-8 state assessments	Commissioner King in Conversation: What Should Parents Know About the New Common Core Assessments? Common Core Assessment Video Series: What Should Parents Know About the New Common Core Assessments? Length (min:sec): 2:03 What Should Parents Know About the New Common Core Assessments?	Commissioner King in Conversation: How Do the Common Core Assessments Fit into our Children's Education? Common Core Assessment Video Series: How Do the Common Core Assessments Fit into our Children's Education? Length (min:sec): 1:23 How Do the Common Core Assessments Fit into our Children's Education?
Harder Tests Common Core Assessment Video Series: How Will the Common Core Assessments be Harder and What Will That Mean? Length (min:sec): 1:28 How Will the Common Core Assessments be Harder and What Will That Mean?	Common Core Video Series: Kindergarten Mathematics - Application Common Core Video Series: Grade K Module 5 Mathematics - Application Example Length (min:sec): 8:05 Students are introduced to counting 10-19 objects by sorting them into 10 ones and some more ones.	GK-M5 Common Core Video Series: Grade K Module 5 Mathematics - Example of Instruction Length (min:sec): 4:43 Students practice counting 10-19 objects by first making a group of 10. They then count the objects the Say Ten way and the regular way.