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Hundreds of Next Generation Assessment items, thousands of high-rigor lessons, and countless opportunities for professional development

Transforming Instruction for More Rigorous Requirements While the national focus has been on the shift to Common Core State Standards, the bigger challenge will be increasing the rigor and relevance of instruction to prepare students for success on the new assessments and to be college and career-ready.

Next Network supports educators as they dramatically and sustainably change instruction to prepare students not only for the new assessments but also for success in college and careers.

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Moving Toward Tomorrow — TodayNext Network is an extensive suite of online tools and resources designed to support changing instruction in preparation for Common Core State Standards and more rigorous assessments. Next Network:

• Encourages reflective practice by showing the higher expectations of the new standards and assessments

• Supports the development of rigorous and relevant instruction with ongoing professional development opportunities

• Provides highly interactive, web-based forums for collaboration, discussion, and sharing of best practices and classroom-tested resources among colleagues and other Next Network members across the country

• Connects like-minded, innovative educators nationwide to learn from one another, challenge each other, and push the status quo

• Serves as a comprehensive, digital resource for educators focused on rigor, relevance, and relationships for all students

• Delivers virtual, on-demand support to help utilize and implement Next Network resources within the classroom

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Next Generation Assessment sample items assess student mastery of the Common Core State Standards

Aligned Common Core State Standard

Importance on your state test

Priority ranked by the National Essential Skills Survey (NESS)

Your state standard

Preparing for More Rigorous RequirementsCentral to Next Network is a powerful tool called Next Navigator, which helps prioritize instruction as schools transition from current state standards to Common Core State Standards. The Next Navigator alignment tool:

• Shows the similarities and disparities among state standards, college- and career-ready skills, and Common Core State Standards

• Illustrates the difference between current state tests and Next Generation Assessments with hundreds of exemplary performance tasks that mirror the rigor of the new assessments

• Articulates the connections among the national career clusters and pathways and the Common Core State Standards

Alignment Search

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Next Generation Assessment Items to Use TodayWhether you are in a PARCC or SMARTER Balanced state, the new assessments will be significantly more rigorous than most state tests. They will require students not only to apply their knowledge and skills but to do so in real-world, unpredictable situations.

Hundreds of sample Next Generation Assessment items illustrate the difference between typical state test questions and the more rigorous items that will be on the new assessments. They also can be used in the classroom to assess student preparedness.

Common Core State Standards this item assesses

The task the student must complete

The criteria by which the quality of student work is assessed

How long the task should take the student to complete

What the student must produce for teachers to assess performance


High-Rigor Lessons Ready to Use TodayThis library of more than 2,000 rigorous and relevant Gold Seal Lessons for all content areas in K–12 are aligned to Common Core State Standards. This vast collection of high-quality lessons:

• Will help students and teachers prepare for the rigor and length of the new assessments by offering exemplary, classroom-proven, lessons with durations ranging from one day to three weeks

• Were written by teachers who have used, field-tested, and fine-tuned the lessons based on their use in classrooms. Each Gold Seal Lesson also goes through an extensive vetting process by the team of educators at Successful Practices Network and International Center for Leadership in Education, ensuring it meets high standards for rigor and relevance

• Expands daily as Next Network members contribute new lessons on an ongoing basis

• Provides an alternative approach to teaching the content required of Common Core State Standards

• Boosts student engagement with content and context highly relevant to the real world

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GOLD SEAL

LESSON Justify Your Purchase

Subject(s) Math and English Language Arts

Rigor/Relevance Framework

Grade Level 7‐8 Common Core State Standards

Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.

a. Introduce claim(s), acknowledge alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.

b. Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant evidence, using accurate, credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.

Summarize numerical data sets in relation to their context, such as by reporting the number of observations.

Student Learning

Students will work cooperatively. Students will share oral information and give feedback. Students will construct a Semantic Feature Analysis (SFA) grid

to display product evaluations. Students will rate products and share justifications. Students will record and interpret data on SFA. Students will organize and summarize results. Students will draw conclusions based upon ratings. Students will justify purchasing one product over another. Students will write letters explaining justifications.

Performance Task

Overview: Students will compose a letter to a manufacturer recommending one product (cereal, chips, cookies, etc.) over another and include a rationale. Description: This activity may be a good for students to demonstrate the significance and power of real world argumentative writing and data collection. Prior to the start of the activity, the teacher will need the following

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GOLD SEAL

LESSON Semantic Feature Analysis

Subject(s) Math, English Language Arts


Grade Level 7‐8

Student Learning

Students will work cooperatively. Students will share oral information and give feedback. Students will construct a Semantic Feature Analysis (SFA) grid

to display product evaluations. Students will rate products and share justifications. Students will record and interpret data on SFA. Students will organize and summarize results. Students will draw conclusions based upon ratings. Students will justify purchasing one product over another. Students will write letters explaining justifications.

Performance Task

Overview: Students will compose a letter to a manufacturer recommending one product (cereal, chips, cookies, etc.) over another and include a rationale. Description: This activity may be a good beginning of the year activity for students to demonstrate the significance and power of real world argumentative writing and data collection. Prior to the start of the activity, the teacher will need the following materials:

Mints, candies, and gum for Entrance Ticket Activity LIKE/DISLIKE signs on table for hook SFA organizer (large for classroom use; small for individual

student use) Labels to identify roles for each member Generic and brand name products (no peanuts) pre‐sorted

into small sandwich bags, labeled A, B, C to use in Taste Test Thesaurus or connection to www.dictionary.com Chart paper for draft of email or letter

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GOLD SEAL

LESSON CHEMISTRYMATCH.COM

Subjects: Chemistry, English


Grade Level 10‐12 Student Learning

Students will: Conduct internet research. Demonstrate the ability to use Windows Live Movie Maker to

create an advertisement. Edit a piece of music using Audacity Create a PowerPoint presentation. Demonstrate knowledge of the periodic table. Describe real world uses for the element. Relate the bonding of an element to the relationships of

people.

Performance Task

Overview Students will work individually to create a dating advertisement for an element. The dating advertisement will be in multimedia format and will include pictures, text, and audio. They will use the information they have learned about families, valence electrons, oxidation numbers, and bonding to create this advertisement. Students will also conduct internet research for any assistance they may need. Description Pretend you are an element and you are looking for a date for the big dance. You must create a multimedia dating advertisement in order to find this date. Your advertisement must include the following:

1. The name of the element and its symbol. 2. The family the element belongs to. 3. Four characteristics of the element. 4. The number of valence electrons the element has. 5. The oxidation number of the element. 6. The type of ions the element is looking for to make a

bond. 7. The type of bond the element will make to become stable. 8. Several examples of things the element can be used for in

elemental or compound form in our everyday life. 9. Works cited for any information derived from the

Internet.

GOLD SEAL

LESSON TO: CINDERELLA

Subject(s) English Language Arts, Social Studies


Grade Level 3‐4

Student Learning

Students will be able to compare and contrast Cinderella stories from several different cultures

Students will be able to identify problems and solutions in fairy tales

Students will be able to write their own version of a fairy tale Students will be able to use inferencing skills Students will write with correct grammar, spelling, and

punctuation

Performance Task

Overview Students will compare and contrast Cinderella stories from different cultures. Students will then decide what gift could be given to Cinderella that would help her. Students will then write their own version of Cinderella using this gift. Description

1. Students will read several different versions of Cinderella from different cultures.

2. As a class, students will complete a chart with story information from each book. They will identify the problem, solution, magic, and what happened to the stepmother and stepsisters. Using this, students will compare and contrast different versions of the story.

3. On a map, students will locate the country of origin for each story, and mark them with a pin or sticky note. Students will discuss these points and their geographic relation to each other. Students will reflect on the similarities and differences between the stories, and how these may be driven by geographical location.

4. Students will reflect on Cinderella as a character and decide on a gift that would have helped her. Students will then reflect on how this would have changed the story.

5. Students will then write their own version of the Cinderella

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GOLD SEAL

LESSON

MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES

Subject(s) English Language Arts


Grade Levels 6‐8

Common Core State Standards

RI.8.2. Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text. RI.8.7. Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using different mediums (e.g., print or digital text, video, multimedia) to present a particular topic or idea. RI.8.9. Analyze a case in which two or more texts provide conflicting information on the same topic and identify where the texts disagree on matters of fact or interpretation. W.8.7. Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including aself‐generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.

Student Learning

Students will be able to: Appraise the use of current mobile device technology Determine what information culled is appropriate for use in a

presentation for the class Compose and deliver a presentation regarding the mobile

technology Assess the presentations given and use the summaries of such

to foster a deeper discussion of mobile technology

Performance Task

Overview After being assigned a mobile technology to research, groups will set boundaries and goals for their research by generating three or four questions to answer. The groups will then collect sufficient data related to their questions, revising those questions as necessary. The groups will then compose a presentation based on the research and will deliver it to the class. The groups will compose summaries of the presentations and the group representatives will then compare summaries and generate questions for whole group discussion. The goal of the discussion is for the students to analyze the personal and social impacts (both local and global) of mobile device use. For extension, the students may envision a new mobile device and create advertisements for such, focusing on its uses and its appeal to the consumer audience.

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Question Suggestions prompt the use of question stems associated with high levels of rigor and relevance.

Student Work List ensures that daily student work prepares them for complex questions they will see on the test and real-life scenarios they will confront in college and careers.

Coaching Advice offers tips, suggestions and guidance for writing a task, creating a scoring guide, and identifying performance-based student work products.

Create Your Own Assessment ItemsTeacher Workspaces help educators reflect upon their current instructional practices and walk them through the process of increasing the rigor and relevance of their lessons.

Users can employ the following to write, revise, and share their own performance tasks:

The Verb Analyzer helps ensure that the assessment task is high in rigor.

This tool evaluates your performance task based on the four quadrants of the Rigor / Relevance Framework, the revised Bloom’s Taxonomy, and Norman Webb’s Four Depths of Knowledge (DOK).

The Application Guide assists in the process of increasing the relevance of the performance task.


Ongoing Professional Development on Your ScheduleNext Network enables educators to continue their professional learning by providing customizable activities and access to on-demand resources 24/7. All users have unlimited access to:

• Graduate-level online courses, including:

1. Effective Methods for Building Relationships2. Using the Rigor/Relevance Framework3. Quadrant D Lesson Development 4. Instructional Strategies for

Rigor and Relevance

Graduate credits are available

• Library of case studies profiling national model schools and their paths to success.

• Monthly webinars with timely professional coaching focused on topics crucial and relevant to schools. Presented by model schools, education leaders, researchers, and field experts.

• Extensive collection of videocasts highlighting current educational theory, next practices, and nationally renowned speakers.

Videocasts and webinars are embedded in the page for ease of viewing

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• Collaborate with peers to create, modify, and share next generation assessment items and Gold Seal Lessons.

Connect, Share, CollaborateNext Network users can connect and share with like-minded peers committed to raising student achievement. Through the digital environment, educators will:

• Connect with peers and colleagues from K–12 schools across the nation to share best and next practices.

• Receive monthly email communications such as the Network Monthly Newsletter and the Learning Leaders Q&A Column


Set Goals and Monitor Progress The Implementation Calendar helps educators set and monitor expectations for creating, using, and revising new performance tasks.

The calendar has been pre-loaded with a set of typical implementation tasks on a recommended timeline but is fully customizable to meet the needs of all schools. The monitoring tools are designed to help busy school leaders collaborate to set dates, monitor progress, and mark tasks as complete.

Calendar indicates date assigned and person responsible

Easy-to-monitor completion status

Suggested actions and sets are included and fully customizable

Ability to add other users who may update and edit the calendar

Calendar may be archived to track progress year over year

Easily track your own progress

Track the progress of the entire school

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Make the Most of Next NetworkTo amplify the benefits of Next Network, we recommend onsite professional development and job-embedded coaching. The following is a sample agenda for the recommended two days of Next Network training (days do not need to be consecutive).

Audience: Instructional leaders, classroom teachers, instructional support staff

Day One Agenda

8:30 – 10:00 Welcome, Introductions, Overview, and Objectives for the day

User IDs and Passwords

Activity: Exploring Next Network and available resources

Sharing

10:00 – 10:15 Break

10:15 – 10:45 Overview of Common Core State Standards (CCSS)

Your State Standards to What’s Tested

Your State Standards to CCSS

Activity: Next Network Alignment Search

10:45 – 11:45 Overview of Next Generation Assessments

Activity: Selecting, saving, and modifying in My Workspace

Recommending and Collaborating

11:45 – 12:30 Lunch

12:30 – 1:15 Activity: Assessment Challenge

1:15 – 3:00 Activity: Creating your own performance task

3:00 – 3:30 Next Steps/Action Plan

Final questions

Feedback form

Day Two Agenda

8:30 – 10:00 Welcome, Introductions, Overview and Objectives for the day

Activity: Professional Development Center “A-ha moments”

Sharing

10:00 – 10:15 Break

10:15 – 10:45 Overview of Gold Seal Lessons

Activity: Aligning Next Generation Assessments and Gold Seal Lessons

10:45 – 11:45 Instructional Planning Model

Activity: Building teams and selecting a topic

11:45 – 12:30 Lunch

12:30 – 3:00 Activity: Team Task Development and Sharing

3:00 – 3:30 Next Steps

Final questions

Feedback form

Learning Outcomes from Implementation Training

Learner and the Learning Environment• Identify the role of Next Network in helping school

personnel build knowledge and strategies to implement next generation assessments.

• Apply Rigor/Relevance Instructional Steps to planning instruction and assessment.

Research-Based Instructional Practices• Define standards to help teachers align instruction

and curriculum.

• Define assessment practices to help identify how well students have mastered standards.

Content Knowledge• Understand how the Common Core State Standards

impact teaching, curriculum, and learning in all subjects.

• Use data to differentiate instruction.

• Prioritize instruction based on state test data and aligned Common Core State Standards.

• Understand the proposed changes in Next Generation Assessments and how to prepare students now.

• Establish goals for leaders, teachers, and students to support a successful transition.


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