Common Core State Standards

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Common Core State Standards Nationwide, research-based standards designed to ensure all students have access to the same rigorous academic content Millbury Street Elementary School, Grafton, MA Curriculum Nights September 18, 24 & 26, 2013

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Common Core State

StandardsNationwide, research-based standards designed to ensure all students have access to the same rigorous academic content Millbury Street Elementary School, Grafton, MACurriculum NightsSeptember 18, 24 & 26, 2013

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The Common Core is not a curriculum or a teaching guide. It is an outline of ELA and Math SKILLS (standards) that all students should master at each grade level, K – 12.

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Why Move to the Common Core?

College and Career Readiness – the new national normWorkplace reading exceeds 12th grade complexity (Stenner, Koons, & Swartz)K-12 texts have trended downward in difficulty in the last half century (Chall, Conard, & Harris, 1977)

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Shifts in InstructionFocus on ProcessIncrease Text ComplexityHigher Level Discussions around TextAssignments for a PurposeIncrease in Writing with a Purpose

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ELA StandardsMore Non-fictionFocus on Evidence“Staircase” of Text ComplexitySpeaking and ListeningLiteracy in Content Areas

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Math StandardsTwo types of standards: 1.) Mathematical Practice (how students are able to apply and extend math principles) 2.) Mathematical Content (what students know about math)The two are linked together while students are learning

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Math ContentGreater FocusCoherenceSkills, Understanding & ApplicationEmphasis on Practices

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Mathematical Practices1. Make sense of problems and

persevere in solving them2. Reason abstractly and

quantitatively3. Construct viable arguments

and critique the reasoning of others

4. Model with mathematics

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Mathematical Practices 5. Use appropriate tools strategically6. Attend to precision7. Look for and make use of structure8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning

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?? MA State Assessments ??

PARCCPartnership for

Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers

www.parcconline.org

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ONLINE RESOURCESwww.corestandards.org

www.commoncoreworks.org

www.doe.mass.edu

“What Parent’s Need to Know About Common Core” Elmers Products, 2013“Overview for Parents: The Common Core State Standards” Acton Public Schools