Common Core State Standards for School LibrariesLibrary Summer Camp

August 13, 2013Dollie Forney

Library Resource Specialist

Common Core State Standards for School Libraries

Discussion Today

1. What are the Common Core State Standards? 2. What are the big shifts or changes from the

former CA State Standards? 3. An overview of how the standards are arranged

and a bit of terminology to help you start speaking the language.

4. Strategies, suggestions and resources to help school libraries become part of the movement.

Common Core State Standards for School Libraries

Common Core State Standards for School Libraries

What are the California What are the California Common Core State Common Core State

Standards? Standards?

July 2010

What are the California What are the California Common Core State Common Core State

Standards? Standards?

Common Core State Standards for School Libraries

www.corestandards.org

So what are the Common Core So what are the Common Core State Standards? State Standards?

Common Core State Standards for School Libraries

Three-Minute Video Explaining the Common Core State Standards

AssessmentAssessment

Common Core State Standards for School Libraries

CALIFORNIACALIFORNIAhttp://www.smarterbalanced.org/

AssessmentAssessment

Common Core State Standards for School Libraries

Assessment TerminologyAssessment Terminology

Common Core State Standards for School Libraries

CAT – Computer Aided Testing

Next Generation Assessments

Formative Assessments

Summative Assessments

Common Core State Standards for School Libraries

Common Core State Standards for School Libraries

ELA Standard Notation

Common Core State Standards for School Libraries

Notation for grade-specific standards: Individual grade-specific standards are identified by grade, strand, and number (or number and letter, where applicable); for example, 2.RL.1, means grade 2, Reading Literature, standard 1. Literature Literature 2.RL

Key Ideas and Details 2.RL.1 Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to

demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

S tran d

G rad e

G rad e-leve l S tan d a rd

S tan d a rd n u m b er

CCSS Instructional Shifts in ELA/

Literacy

12CCSS-ELA Instructional Considerations

CCSS-ELA Instructional CCSS-ELA Instructional ShiftsShifts

Common Core• The Big Shift: Grades K-4

What’s New in Nonfiction

80%

20%

50% 50%

Grades 5-8 45% Literature 55% Informational Text

Measuring Text ComplexityMeasuring Text Complexity

14

Measures Text

Attentive Human

Measures Text

Computer

Considers the Individual ReaderTeacher/Librarian

© Copyright 2010. National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and

Council of Chief State School Officers.All rights reserved.

Measuring Text ComplexityMeasuring Text Complexity

© Copyright 2010. National Governors Association Center for Best Practices

and Council of Chief State School Officers.

All rights reserved

CCSS – Mathematics CCSS – Mathematics Instructional Shifts Instructional Shifts

Common Core State Standards for School Libraries

Domains

Common Core State Standards for School Libraries

How to Read Math How to Read Math StandardsStandards

Common Core State Standards for School Libraries

© Copyright 2010. National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and

Council of Chief State School Officers.All rights reserved

Mathematical Practices Mathematical Practices

Common Core State Standards for School Libraries

School Library and the School Library and the Common Core State StandardsCommon Core State Standards

Implementing the Common Core State Implementing the Common Core State

Standards without a strong school library Standards without a strong school library

program is like offering a biology class program is like offering a biology class

without a lab. without a lab.

Common Core State Standards for School Libraries

School Library and the School Library and the Common CoreCommon Core

Common Core State Standards for School Libraries

TIMESAVERS FOR TIMESAVERS FOR TEACHERSTEACHERS

Common Core State Standards for School Libraries

Library Response to CCSS

Common Core State Standards for School Libraries

Nesi, O. M. (2012, December). The Public Library Connection. School Library Journal, p. 20.

Cultivating 21Cultivating 21stst Century Century LearnersLearners

Common Core State Standards for School Libraries

Collaborating with TeachersCollaborating with Teachers

Common Core State Standards for School Libraries

Digital Literacy Bag of Digital Literacy Bag of TricksTricks

Common Core State Standards for School Libraries

Common Core State Standards for School Libraries

Common Core State Standards for School Libraries

Suggestion to ponder before Suggestion to ponder before school year begins: school year begins:

Common Core State Standards for School Libraries

1. Identify a teacher as a collaborator2. Identify a unit or activity in their school year plan you can

support with resources.3. Identify specific standards that will be addressed 4. Identify resources you will provide5. Meet with teacher to design this plan6. Carefully record your progress7. Present the results to the rest of the school and possibly

district

Enjoy the Journey

Common Core State Standards for School Libraries

HAVE AN AMAZING SCHOOL YEAR!HAVE AN AMAZING SCHOOL YEAR!