Smarter Balanced Digital Library

The Digital Library provides subject- and grade-specific resources intended to help educators apply the formative assessment process during daily instruction. In addition, the Digital Library has collaboration features that allow users to rate materials and share their expertise with educators across the country. The Digital Library is available to district and charter educators with resources available for use in grades K-12.

• Digital Library Access   - Requires Registration
• Video: Exploring the Smarter Balanced Digital Library

  Provides an overview of the formative assessment process and instructions for logging in and navigating the Digital Library. ( 29-minutes

• Digital Library Introduction for Teachers

  Takes users on a tour of the Digital Library and focuses on accessing, filtering and navigating, marking favorites, using the forum features, and describing the four attributes of the formative assessment process. This presentation is recommended for use during a staff meeting or professional development session.

• Digital Library Overview and Sample Resources

  This slide show is a recorded tour that is meant for anyone wanting to know more about the Digital Library's design features and professional learning resources. It includes three sample resources to demonstrate how to interact with the Digital Library. This overview is meant for educators, parents and guardians, school board members, and community representatives.

• Digital Library Fact Sheet

  This fact sheet provides an overview of the Digital Library, the formative assessment process, and the features that allow teachers to search by a multitude of features of instructional materials that will help inform teaching and learning. The fact sheet is ideal for sharing with educators, parents and guardians, school board members, and community representatives.

• FAQs: Formative Assessment and Digital Library

• Smarter Analytics

  Includes an overview of using Smarter Analytics to guide instruction, webinars, and claim and target crosswalks for grades K-8.

• Digital Library Connections

  Links student performance on the Smarter Balanced Interim Assessment Blocks (IABs) to resources in the Digital Library. Educators can use these connections to find relevant and useful instructional supports that are aligned to students’ needs. Created by expert educators in collaboration with Smarter Balanced, Digital Library Connections

  • Overview
  • Grade 7 Literary Text
  • Grade 7 Ratio and Proportions
• Video: Introducing the Smarter Balanced Digital Library

  Provides a general introduction to the Digital Library with endorsements from California educators who are using formative assessment resources from the Digital Library. (Six Minutes)

• Quality Criteria for the Digital Library

  Provides background on the development of the Quality Criteria for the Digital Library as well as an overview of the rating system used to review resources. In addition, Formative Assessment Practices/Transition to the Common Core Work Group members explain how State Leadership Teams and State Networks of Educators use the Quality Criteria to evaluate resources for the Digital Library. (33 Minutes)

For more information on connecting assessments to instruction, contact Curriculum, Instruction and Professional Development at 302-735-4180