New England Teaching Resources (CT, ME, MA, NH, RI, VT)
New England Teaching Resources (CT, ME, MA, NH, RI, VT)
Teaching units for New England classrooms with four levels of worksheets, an editable slide deck, complete answer keys and a lesson plan, plus links to the state page matching your standards and assessment.
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Units used across New England
The compass-and-ruler geometry unit runs in a single period; the two statistics units and the business maths workbook suit Grades 9 through 12; the STEM bundle carries a full year of material.
Why teachers here use these
Why New England teachers use these
Six states, six sets of rules, and a teacher who crosses a state line finds most of the job unchanged and a few things entirely different. Maine works from the Maine Learning Results and funds a statewide 1:1 device initiative. New Hampshire runs the New Hampshire Statewide Assessment System in grades 3 through 8, but also pioneered competency-based performance assessment through PACE, still used in some districts, so evidence of what a student can do carries weight of its own. Vermont is working through a statewide school-governance and funding restructuring, and departments there plan around buildings that may be organized differently next year. Connecticut uses the SAT School Day at grade 11 instead of a state-built exam. What none of that changes is the week in front of you: the same topics, the same spread of readers in one room, the same evening spent making a worksheet. That last part is what a finished unit takes away.
A sequence you can run
Five lessons out of one download
Every unit is written as a sequence rather than a stand-alone sheet, so one purchase covers a run of lessons and the planning that would have gone with them.
- Start from the concrete taskLesson one gives students something to build or measure before any definition appears. Working first and naming second keeps the class with you when the vocabulary finally arrives.
- Put the method on the screenThe deck walks through one full example with the steps visible. Leave it up while students try the second one; nobody has to remember what the board said ten minutes ago.
- Match the tier to the studentHanding out four levels of the same practice takes no longer than handing out one, and it stops the students at either end of the room from spending the period stuck.
- Mark it before they leaveComplete keys let students check in pairs while you watch. The mistakes you see repeated in three books decide what the next lesson opens with.
- End with something writtenThe final task asks for reasoning in sentences. Keep it: written work is what a support-plan meeting, a placement conversation or a parent evening can be built on.
What's covered
The same contents in every unit
Whichever state page you land on, the units behind it are identical in shape: a finished sequence with everything needed to run it and nothing left to assemble.
- Worksheets at four challenge levels
- Editable slide deck included
- Complete answer keys
- Lesson plan with timings
- Printable and digital formats
- Word and PowerPoint files
Browse by jurisdiction
Go straight to your state page
Each state page names the standards, the agency and the assessment that apply where you teach, and arranges the same units for that jurisdiction. Start there if you already know your state.
Make it work in your building
Two things New England rooms need
One thing worth saying about the four tiers: they are not difficulty settings dropped on a worksheet after the fact. The question is the same at every level; what changes is the scaffolding around it — the number of steps written out, the length of the reading. That is what makes the finished work usable. A class set collected on Friday can be read side by side even though half the room had a different page, and a student on a support plan hands in the same task as everyone else. When the evidence is wanted later, it is comparable and it is dated.
Good to know
Frequently asked questions
Are these endorsed by any of the state departments of education?
No. These are independent teaching resources, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by any state education agency. Each unit is written to the concepts and skills the standards in these states describe — the Maine Learning Results, the New Hampshire College and Career Ready Standards, the Connecticut Core Standards and the rest — which is a claim about content, not an official alignment. Check a preview against your own scope and sequence first.
Which state tests do these relate to?
New England does not test in one way. Connecticut uses the Connecticut Smarter Balanced Assessments and the SAT School Day at grade 11; Maine runs the Maine Comprehensive Assessment System (MECAS); New Hampshire runs the New Hampshire Statewide Assessment System (NH SAS); Rhode Island uses the Rhode Island Comprehensive Assessment System (RICAS); Vermont uses the Vermont Comprehensive Assessment Program (VTCAP). None is a practice test, and we make no claim about scores; the units build the vocabulary, multi-step work and written explanation those assessments sample.
The grade band on a unit is not quite my class. Should I skip it?
Not necessarily. Grade bands describe the range a unit normally serves, and the four tiers already stretch across more than a single year of difficulty, so the label is a starting point rather than a boundary. Teachers run the entry tier with a younger class and the top tier as extension for an older one. Editable files make trimming the hardest pages quick. Judge by the preview, not the cover.
Can the written tasks go in the gradebook?
That is what the closing task is for. It produces writing with reasoning in it, which tells you more than a page of answers, and the complete keys make marking consistent across sections and teachers. Every tier asks the same underlying question, so a set can be compared even where the pages differed. Weighting, and whether it counts formally, follows your district's grading policy.
Would this be any use in PD or a department meeting?
A single unit gives a small department something concrete to work through: where the topic sits in the year, which tier suits which section, and what an acceptable written answer looks like. The purchase covers the teacher who bought it and their own classes, so anyone else planning to teach from it needs their own copy; for a group, a bundle is usually cheaper.
I teach in one state but my district borders another. Does the state page matter?
Mostly for the framing. The standards names, the agency and the assessment differ from state to state, and each state page states its own. The units themselves are the same files in every case. A teacher in Maine, where the state funds a 1:1 device initiative, may lean on the digital versions; one in a New Hampshire district using PACE performance assessment may care more about the written closing task.
One bundle instead of five units
The STEM Complete Curriculum Bundle gathers a year of Grades 6–10 material into a single download.
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