Common Core and Essential Standards Adoption

August 19, 2011 BYHS

Today’s Agenda• Part 1: Defining Common Core and Essential Standards • Part 2:Teaching Then, and Now • Part 3:NC Expectations and Guidelines • Part 4:Emphasizing Support and Collaboration

Lunch Break!

• Part 5:Unpacking the Standards – Department Collaboration

• Part 6:Workshop Evaluations

Part 1: Defining Common Core and Essential Standards

How much do we know?

Anticipation Activity

Common Core Standards

Essential Standards

Part 2: Teaching Then, and Now

VS.

NCSCOS

Common Core Essential Standards

Similarities

Differences

Cross Walking with NCSCOS and CCR

Changing Paradigms

Vertical Alignment

• Reader’s Theater Activity

• Building a Strand

Content as a Vehicle

• Memorization Activity

Part 3: NC Expectations and Guidelines

Part 4: Emphasizing Support and Collaboration

Online Resources

Balancing a Peacock Feather

What Now?

The Big Picture

• Expectations

• Deadlines

Today’s Goals (After Lunch)

Part 5: Unpacking the Standards • Documents provided

by DPI to clarify standards.

• Read, annotate, and discuss them in groups.

• Collaborate to generate a list of questions and plans for implementations to turn in.

Part 6: Workshop Evaluations