Common Core for CitizenshipNew Resource for ELA/Civic Education Alignment

California Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference

Hyatt Orange County

March 2, 2012

Presented by

Michelle M. Herczog, Ed.D.

Consultant III, History-Social Science and

English Language Arts

Los Angeles County Office of Education

Herczog_Michelle@lacoe.edu

Frances L. (Cricket) Kidwell, Ed.D.

Assistant Superintendent

Trinity County Office of Education

cfkidwell@tcoe.org

Marshall Croddy

Vice-President, Constitutional Rights Foundation

California Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools

marshall@crf-usa.org

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills

21st Century Skills Framework

21st Century Themes

– Global Awareness

– Financial, Economic, Business & Entrepreneurship Literacy

– Civic Literacy– Health Literacy

Information, Media & Technology Skills

– Information Literacy

– Media Literacy

– ICT Literacy

Life & Career Skills

– Flexibility & Adaptability

– Initiative & Self-Direction

– Social & Cross-Cultural Skills

– Productivity & Accountability

– Leadership & Responsibility

Partnership for 21st

Century Skills

Creativity

Collaboration

Communication

Critical Thinking and Problem

Solving

P21 MembersPartnership for 21st Century Skills

Strategic Council Members

AB 250 Curriculum Support and Reform Act

Chaptered Into Law - October 8, 2011

(8b) It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this act, to do all of the

following:

(1) Develop a curriculum, instruction, and assessment system to implement

the common core state standards that intentionally does both of the

following:

(A) Focuses on integrating 21st century skills, including critical

thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity,

and innovation, as a competency-based approach to learning in all

core academic content areas, including English language arts,

mathematics, history-social science, science, health education,

visual and performing arts, and world languages.

(B) Promotes higher order thinking skills and interdisciplinary

approaches that integrate the use of supportive technologies,

inquiry, and problem-based learning to provide contexts for pupils

to apply learning in relevant, real-world scenarios and that prepare

pupils for college, career, and citizenship in the 21st century.

Connections to the Past –

Civic Action Today!Why is this important?

Students who receive effective civic learning are:

More likely to vote and discuss politics at home

Four times more likely to volunteer and work on

community issues

More confident in their ability to speak publicly and

communicate with their elected representatives.

Benefits of civic learning:

81% of high school dropouts

said they would have been less

likely to do so if there were

more opportunities for

experiential learning.

Students who receive both

traditional and interactive civics

score highest on assessments

and demonstrate high levels of

21st century skills like critical

thinking, understanding news,

and work ethic.

Schools with civic learning

programs are more likely to be

“safe, inclusive, and respectful.”

www.civicmissionofschools.org

“Literacy is the key word here, because the teaching of history should have reading and writing at its core… This means teaching students to be informed readers, writers, and thinkers about the past as well as the present—a goal all parties should be able to embrace. Our democracy’s vitality depends on it.”

-Sam Wineburg

“Reading proficiency isn’tin and of itself the magic key to competence. It’s what reading enables us to learn and to do that is critical…”

-E. D. Hirsch, Jr.

www.lacoe.edu/historysocialsciencehttp://commoncore.lacoe.edu

Civic Action

for Today

Grades K-2

Building a Foundation

for Civic Literacy

Grades 3-5

Our American

Democracy

Grades 6-8

The Historic Road to Civic

Literacy

Grades 9-12

Civil Liberties and the

Common Good in a

Constitutional Democracy

Reading

WritingSpeaking and Listening

Language

Reading Standards for Literature, Grades 3-5Our American Democracy: Grades 3-5

Yertle the TurtleBy Dr. Seuss

Reading Standards for Literature, Grades 3-5

OUR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY

Reading Standards for Literature, Grades 3-5

OUR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY

Reading Standards for Literature, Grades 3-5

OUR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY

Reading Standards for Literature, Grades 3-5

KEY IDEAS AND DETAILS

CRAFT AND STRUCTURE

INTEGRATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND IDEAS

Reading Standards for Informational Text

KEY IDEAS AND DETAILSCRAFT AND STRUCTURE

INTEGRATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND IDEAS

Writing

Speaking and Listening

Research to Build and Present Knowledge

Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas

Code of Hammurabi

Twelve Tables of Roman Law

The Qur’an

Magna Carta

Reading Standards for Informational TextGrades 6-8THE RISE OF DEMOCRATIC IDEALS

Reading Standards for Informational Text, Grades 9-12CIVIL LIBERTIES IN THE 20TH CENTURY REDEFINED

Connections from the Past –CIVIC ACTION TODAY!

“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.”

-Eleanor Roosevelt