Parent UniversityCommon Core State

Standards1/21/16

Komarek School District 94

PURPOSE OF TODAY’S OVERVIEW

Build your familiarity with the CCSS

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What have you heard about the Common Core State Standards?

What are you hoping to learn about Common Core?

What are your expectations for your child’s education?

What Brought Us Here Today

REVIEW OF KEY IDEAS: CCSS Goal is for all students graduating from high

school to be College and Career Ready (CCR)

Development of CCSS was led by the states - not a federal initiative

PARCC: New assessment that replaced ISAT in the spring of 2015. Aligned to CCSS standards and expectations.

OVERVIEW OF COMMON CORE

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Discussion Question

What types of skills will your child need to be successful in college and future jobs?

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KEY ADVANCES OF THE COMMON CORE

ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS/LITERACY

Balance of literature and informational texts; focus on text complexity

Emphasis on argument, informative/ explanatory writing, and research

Speaking and listening skills

Literacy standards for history, science and technical subjects

SHIFT 1: INCREASE READING OF INFORMATIONAL TEXT

SHIFT 2: TEXT COMPLEXITY Research shows that the reading difficulty

of textbooks Kdgn - Gr. 12 has declined since 1962 while reading level of college texts has increased.

The result is that a gap of 350 Lexiles between the texts used in Grade 12 and those used at the college level

SHIFT 3: ACADEMIC VOCABULARYACADEMIC VOCABULARY

Domain Specific Vs. General Academic

Most southern blacks were denied their right to vote. The biggest obstacle was the poll tax, a special tax that was required of all voters but was too costly for many blacks and for poor whites as well.

Freedman, Russell. Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

New York: Holiday House (2006)

SHIFT 4: TEXT-BASED QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

Readers depend on evidence from text to reach conclusions and build arguments

Read like a detective and write like an investigative reporter

TEXT BASED? According to the author

how do drops of rain form?

What do you know about water treatment in our community?

What kinds of clues might detectives use to solve crimes?

Yes, you must have read the text.

Not text based, may already know it, or need to do further research.

Not text based, may already know it, or need to do further research.

SHIFT 5: WRITING FROM SOURCES

Respond through writing to ideas and facts presented in texts

Read effectively and also organize ideas in writing

Requires a higher level of thinking than answering multiple choice or short answer questions

Includes short, focused research projects

EXAMPLES OF WRITING IN RESPONSE TO READING

Based on the information in the text "Biography of Amelia Earhart,” write an essay that summarizes and explains the challenges Earhart faced throughout her life.

The Board of Education is discussing a policy on the sale of energy drinks in vending machines. Using the information in these articles, write an argumentative essay supporting your stand on this topic.

SHIFT 6: LITERACY INSTRUCTION IN ALL CONTENT

AREAS

Content-area teachers at grade levels 6+ need to emphasize reading and writing as part of teaching their domain

Teach students to read and write like scientists, historians, and mathematicians

These literacy standards are not meant to replace content standards, but to supplement them

Let’s Do Some Math ☺

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A vacuum company wants to sell 28 vacuums each week. There are 7 sales people. How many vacuums must each person sell?

The Answer?

ADVANCES IN COMMON CORE

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The Common Core State Standards in Mathematics

Two sets of standards:

•Content

•Mathematical Practice

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K-8 Mathematics Standards

The K-5 standards provide students with a solid foundation in

whole numbers addition, subtraction multiplication, divisionfractions and decimals

The 6-8 standards describe learning in geometry algebraprobability and statistics

MATHEMATICAL PRACTICES Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them

Reason abstractly and quantitatively

Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others

Model with mathematics

Use appropriate tools strategically

Attend to precision

Look for and make use of structure

Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning

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How to teach Intervention methods or materials to support students who are well below or well above grade level expectationsRange of supports appropriate for English language learners and students with special needs

What the Standards Don’t Address

Means Drive Ends

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Ends Drive Means

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DISTRICT 94’S CCSS ALIGNMENT

The materials do not drive the boat. They are a tool to implement the curriculum/standards.

Our new CCSS aligned curricula are standards based. They are a continuous work in progress. They will continue to be reviewed and enhanced on a consistent basis.

Alignment Process1. Develop a strong CCSS-based order of

introduction, scope and sequence.2. Pace the CCSS into integrated units.3. Create rigorous measurable objectives for

each CCSS standard to drive lessons.4. Build CCSS progress monitoring assessments

into scope and sequence.5. Determine the use of current instructional

materials as a tool to teach the CCSS.

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NEXT STEPS Continue to write CCSS aligned units in ELA. Each grade level will

complete 8 units per year Revisions of ELA units Maintain a strong focus on writing in all subject areas Develop a math scope and sequence and align curriculum accordingly. Continue professional development in the area of curriculum writing and

Instructional strategies professional development Align social studies curriculum to ELA units of study Align science curriculum to ELA and math units of study New tools/resources Enhance consistency and alignment of our report card grading system Identify learning gaps and areas for acceleration

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