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Common Core State Standards: A Common Core State Standards: A National Perspective on National Perspective on Implementation Implementation & & Assessment Assessment  

Margaret Reed Millarmargaretm@ccsso.org @MargaretRMillarSenior AssociateCouncil of Chief State School Officers

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Why Develop a Set of Common Core State Standards?

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Preparation: Prepare students with the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in postsecondary endeavors

Competition: Ensure our students are globally competitive

Equity: Set consistent expectations for all--and not dependent on a student’s zip code

Collaboration: Create a foundation to work collaboratively across states and districts, pooling resources and expertise

45 states, D.C. and the Department of Defense Education Activity have fully adopted the Common Core State Standards and Minnesota has adopted only the ELA standards.

Common Core State Standards Adoption(as of June 2012)

Common Core ELA Standards

Four strands Reading (including Reading Foundational Skills) Writing Speaking and Listening Language

Three appendices

A: Research and evidence; glossary of key terms

B: Reading text exemplars; sample performance tasks

C: Annotated student writing samples

1.Regular practice for all students with complex text and its academic vocabulary

2. Reading and writing (speaking and listening) grounded in evidence from text

3. Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction and informational texts

1.Regular practice for all students with complex text and its academic vocabulary

2. Reading and writing (speaking and listening) grounded in evidence from text

3. Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction and informational texts

GETTING STARTED ON THE COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS for LANGUAGE ARTS

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Key Shifts in ELA Standards

Common Core Mathematics Standards

Standards for Mathematical Practice Carry across all grade levels Describe habits of mind of a mathematically expert student

Standards for Mathematical Content K-8 standards presented by grade level High school standards presented by conceptual theme

Appendix Designing high school math courses based on the Common

Core State Standards

Three Major Shifts in Mathematics

• Focus strongly where the standards focus

• Coherence: Think across grades and link to major topics within grades

• Rigor: Require conceptual understanding, fluency, and application

Mathematics topics intended at each grade by at least

two-thirds of A+ countries

Mathematics topics intended at each grade by at least two-

thirds of 21 U.S. states

International Comparison

1 Schmidt, Houang, & Cogan, “A Coherent Curriculum: The Case of Mathematics.” (2002).

Higher Demands for Similar Content…

But Much Sharper Focus

K 12

Number and Operations

Measurement and Geometry

Algebra and Functions

Statistics and Probability

Traditional U.S. Approach

Focusing attention within Number and Operations

Operations and Algebraic Thinking

Expressions and Equations

Algebra

Number and Operations—Base Ten

The Number System

Number and Operations—Fractions

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GradePriorities in Support of Rich Instruction and Expectations of Fluency and Conceptual Understanding

K–2Addition and subtraction, measurement using whole number quantities

3–5Multiplication and division of whole numbers and fractions

6Ratios and proportional reasoning; early expressions and equations

7Ratios and proportional reasoning; arithmetic of rational numbers

8 Linear algebra

Shorthand Emphases

Mathematical Practices

1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.

3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.

4. Model with mathematics.

5. Use appropriate tools strategically.

6. Attend to precision.

7. Look for and make use of structure.

8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

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Common Core State Implementation Timelines

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Did not adopt Did not adopt CCSSCCSS

Common Core Implementation Map

Opportunities for Charter Schools

Alignment with curricula Assessment

Many high performing charters already use text dependent questions

Many high performing charters already innovate when it comes to the use of technology and how to better serve at risk populations

Standards can support Project based learning Cost savings on materials Opportunity to use formative assessment tools aligned to

standards

National Common Core Resources

The James B. Hunt Institute and CCSSO created a series of free video vignettes that explain the Standards in depth.

www.ccsso.org

National Common Core Resources

CCSSO full list of resources: http://bit.ly/zBUHsrCouncil of the Great City Schools– Common Core Parent

Guides and other Great Tools www.cgcs.org

Student Achievement Partners (Standards writers) www.achievethecore.org

New York State Common Core Website www.engageny.org

Illustrative Mathematics http://illustrativemathematics.org/

New Common Summative Assessments

Two assessment consortia funded to create assessment systems by 2014-2015 Partnership for the Assessment of

Readiness for College and Career (PARCC)

www.parcconline.org

@PARCCPlace SMARTER Balanced

www.smarterbalanced.org

@smarterbalanced

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Questions and DiscussionQuestions and DiscussionMargaret Millarmargaretm@ccsso.org@MargaretRMillarSenior AssociateCouncil of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)

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