networking session

Networking Session Networking Session English Language Arts and Literacy

April 25, 2014

Kansas State Department of Educationwww.ksde.org

To Start Off:

Please reflect on what you will be able to observe (see, hear) when you have successfully implemented Kansas ELA College and Career-Ready State Standards in your schools and districts.Teacher Practices?Student Work?Instructional Materials?

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Suite of Tools to Evaluate Alignment

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AchievetheCore.org

Leadership Tools tab

http://achievethecore.org/

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Types of Tools in the Toolkit

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KSDE Kansas Guide to Learning: Literacy

A comprehensive literacy guide to advance learning from birth to Grade 12http://community.ksde.org/Default.aspx?tabid=5899

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Text Complexity

KSDE website and Council of Chief School Officers English Language Arts State Collaborative on Assessment and Student Standards (CCSSO ELA SCASS) website

http://www.ccsso.org/Navigating_Text_Complexity.html

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Student Achievement Partners and The Council of the Great City Schools

Supplemental Lesson Development

Basal Alignment Project- Elementary

Anthology Alignment Project- MS and HS

Read-Aloud Project- K-2

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Basal and Anthology Alignment Projects

Cooperation of textbook publishers

District teams comprised of literacy, ELL, SWD, and other educators

Examine adopted materials and write text-dependent, CCSS- aligned questions for basal reading selections in grades 3-5 (BAP) and grades 6-12 (AAP)

Focused on evaluating existing questions for alignment and writing good text-dependent questions to sources

Require close reading of the text and preparation for the culminating, text-based discussion or writing task

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Read-Aloud Project Student Achievement Partners and The Council of the

Great City Schools launched the Read-Aloud Project (RAP) for the K-2 grade band.

Written by teams of curriculum, English language learning specialists, and Special Education educators.

Text-dependent questions to go with picture books that are above grade level and rich with complex text.

Build knowledge and vocabulary

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How to access BAP, RAP, AAP on Edmodo

Go to www.edmodo.com

Create a teacher user name and password

Use the following codes to access the BAP, AAP, and RAP codes respectively:

BAP: f4q6nm AAP: pkx4sp RAP: pkx52i

KSDE Learning Resource Sets

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What’s News at KSDE

KSDE ELA Newsletterhttp://community.ksde.org/Default.aspx?

tabid=5280 KSDE ELA Listserv kshaw@ksde.org or soertel@ksde.org KSDE Trainershttp://community.ksde.org/Default.aspx?

tabid=5812

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2014 KSDE Summer Academies

June 3-5Colby Senior High School (USD 315)

June 17-19Derby High School (USD 260)

July 8-10Highland Park High School- Topeka (USD 501)

July 22-24Abilene Middle School (USD 435)

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Feedback to Kris and Suzy

Sign me up for the ELA Listserv ELA Newsletter ideas Learning Resource Sets Kris Shaw kshaw@ksde.org Suzy Oertel soertel@ksde.org