Getting Ready for the Common Core Handbook Series Getting Ready for the Common Core Handbook Series is a set of four publications that guides educators through implementing and sustaining the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). This handbook series effectively turns the reader's attention from the "what" to the "how" - it addresses how the CCSS should influence leadership, teaching, and learning. Each handbook in the Getting Ready for the Common Core series focuses on a unifying theme to provide leaders and educators with the rationale and tools for navigating the terrain of implementing the Common Core. BOOK ONE Navigating Implementation of the Common Core State Standards Provides step-by-step strategies to ramp up the best of standards-based instructional practices at all levels of the organization. BOOK TWO Navigating the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards Guidance and specific strategies for navigating the English language arts CCSS. BOOK THREE Navigating the Mathematics Common Core State Standards Explicit suggestions for navigating the mathematics CCSS. BOOK FOUR Navigating Assessment and Collaboration with the Common Core State Standards Provides a focus for using the formative assessment process and the Common Core, as well as strategies for aligning Professional Learning Communities' and Data Teams' practices as continuous improvement structures ensuring sustainability. The Leadership and Learning Center provides world-class professional development services, cutting-edge research, and innovative solutions for educators and school leaders who serve students from pre-kindergarten through college. The Center has worked in all fifty states and every Canadian province, as well as Europe, Africa, Asia, South America, and the Middle East. The Center works with public school systems, as well as religious and secular independent schools, charter schools, community colleges, technical schools, universities, state departments of education, national ministries of education, and international education associations. Center Professional Development Associates are experienced superintendents, principals, administrators, and educators who provide comprehensive practices for clients in the areas of standards, assessment, instruction, accountability, data analysis, and leadership. Book jacket.