An Interactive Guide to Understanding and Applying the InTASC Standards to Teacher Effectiveness and Student Success

In April 2011, the Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (InTASC), a program of the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), released an updated set of model standards for teachers that articulate a common knowledge and skill set that cuts across all subject areas and grade levels.

Then, in 2013, the Learning Progressions for Teachers 1.0: A Resource for Ongoing Teacher Development was created to help describe the increasing complexity of teaching practice for each core standard across three developmental levels. The standards and learning progressions in InTASC present a vision of teaching that will help all students reach the new learning expectations inherent in the Common Core Standards, and be college and career ready.

Now, educators across the country can learn about the new InTASC standards and progressions, the

history behind them, and their application in School Improvement Network's LumiBook, InTASC Model Core Teaching Standards, authored by Irving Richardson of CCSSO. This online resource is packed with video links and resources, all designed to help teachers utilize the InTASC standards and progressions in their professional learning by doing the following:

• Observing video clips of teacher performance linked to each standard
• Using LumiBook's Learning Progression Tool to assess where current practice lands on the skills spectrum and to define steps for continuous improvement
• Uploading and sharing strategies for addressing problems of practice tied to each standard

LumiBook is a highly interactive, cloud-based e-reading platform that allows you to
collaborate in an online community centered around the text of a book. With
LumiBook, readers develop new ideas side by side with the author.
Authors can then instantly update their LumiBook to incorporate new
ideas, so you never have to buy an updated edition—the author's
newest content is always right in front of you.

All of this is made possible by LumiBook's unique social media
tools, which allow you to add commentary to sentences and
paragraphs within the book, and to view the comments left by
other readers and even the author.

With LumiBook, you don't just read a book—you become part
of an active community of users!