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The BCPS Strategic Plan has been extended through June 30, 2012

Task Force Recommendations will become action steps and objectives for the new Strategic Plan

November is Family Literacy Month!

Just Read, Florida Celebrate Literacy Week: January 23-27, 2012

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Preparing America’s Students for College and Career

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Each state had its own set of academic standards, meaning public education students in each state were learning at different levels

All students had to be prepared to compete with not only their American peers in the next state, but with students from around the world

Past Standards Initiatives

+ Common Core State Standards Initiative

A state led effort to create the next generation of standards for K-12 ‐Mathematics and for K-12 English Language Arts and 6-12 Literacy in Social Studies/History, Science and Technical Subjects

A common set of K-12 standards to ensure that all students, no matter where they live, are prepared for success in college and work

Internationally benchmarked to ensure that our students are college and career ready in a 21st century, globally competitive society

45 states and D.C. have adopted the CCSS

+ Vision

Establishes a vision of what it means to be a literate person in the twenty-first century

Students who readily undertake the close, attentive reading that is the heart of understanding and enjoying complex works of literature

Students habitually perform the critical reading necessary to pick carefully through the staggering amount of information

Students actively seek wide, deep and thoughtful engagement with high-quality literary and informational text that builds knowledge, enlarges experiences and broadens worldviews

Students demonstrate cogent reasoning and use evidence that is essential for deliberations and responsible citizenship

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2013-14 ~ fully implement CCSS; assess FCAT 2.02014-15 ~ fully implement CCSS; assess PARCC

Key Advances of the Common Core

ANCHORED IN COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS

Speaking and ListeningWriting

Design and Organization: English/Language Arts/Literacy

Standards for English/Language

Arts and Literacy in History/Social

Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects

K-5

Standards for English/Language

Arts

6-12

Standards forLiteracy in

History/Social Studies, Science and Technical Subjects

6-12

Three Main Sections

Four Strands with College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards K-12

Reading

Foundational Skills (K-5)LiteratureInformational

Language

10 standards 10 standards 6 standards 6 standards

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+What skills do I need to be College and Career Ready?

Reading

Writing

Speaking/Listening

Language

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+How will I get there?

Progression of S

kills

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Take a Closer Look at #9

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Complex Text...Has rich/challenging vocabularyHas multiple levels of meaningHas complex structureRequires specific content knowledge

One of the key requirements of the Common Core State Standards for Reading is that all students must be able to comprehend texts of steadily increasing complexity as they progress through school.

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The text exemplars are supplemented by brief performance tasks that furtherclarify the meaning of the Standards. These sample tasks illustratespecifically the application of the Standards to texts of sufficient complexity, quality, and range.

Appendix B

+Students (with prompting and support from the teacher) read “Garden Helpers” in National Geographic Young Explorers and demonstrate their understanding of the main idea of the text

—not all bugs are bad—by retelling key details. [RI.K.2]

Students summarize the plot of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince and then reflect on the challenges facing the

characters in the story while employing those and other details in the text to discuss the value of inquisitiveness and

exploration as a theme of the story. [RL.5.2]

Students compare and contrast the effect Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “Paul Revere’s Ride” has on them to the

effect they experience from a multimedia dramatization of theevent presented in an interactive digital map, analyzing the

impact of different techniques employedthat are unique to each medium. [RL.6.7]

Students compare George Washington’s Farewell Address to other foreign policy statements, such as the Monroe Doctrine,

and analyze how both texts address similar themes and conceptsregarding “entangling alliances.” [RI.9–10.9]

+ CCSS Assessments

In Sept. 2010, the U.S. Department of Education awarded grants to the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) to develop state assessments

PARCC is an alliance of 25 states working together to develop a common set of K-12 assessments in English and math anchored in what it takes to be ready for college and careers

PARCC is state-led (Massachusetts Commissioner is Chair) and a subset of PARCC states make up its Governing Board

Florida is fiscal agent for PARCC consortium & a member of the Governing Board

Achieve is the PARCC project manager

+ Role of the Governing States

Governing States will pilot and field test the assessment system components during the 2011–12, 2012–13 and 2013–14 school years, and administer the new assessment system during the 2014-15 school year

The chief state school officers of the Governing States serve on the PARCC Governing Board and make decisions on behalf of the Partnership on major policies and operational procedures

Governing States will use the results from the PARCC assessments in their state accountability systems

+PARCC: High-Quality Assessments

End-of-Year Assessment

•Innovative, computer-based items

Performance-BasedAssessment (PBA)

•Extended tasks•Applications of concepts and skills

Summative assessment for accountability

Formative assessment

Early Assessment•Early indicator of student knowledge and skills to inform instruction, supports, and PD

E/LA/Literacy

•Speaking•Listening

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Flexible

Mid-Year Assessment

•Performance-based•Emphasis on hard to measure standards•Potentially summative

PARCC TimelinePARCC Timeline

SY 2011-12

Development begins

SY 2012-13

First year pilot/field testing and

related research and

data collection

SY 2013-14

Second year pilot/field testing and

related research and

data collection

SY 2014-15

Full administration

of PARCC assessments

SY 2010-11

Launch and design phase

Summer 2015

Set achievement

levels, including

college-ready performance

levels

+More InformationMore Information

www.corestandards.org

www.PARCConline.org

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