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Hitting the Common Core Target
Jan Leonard, Gail Owen, and Scott Estes
Matthew Emmons
It truly is a NEW DAY in education!
Proceed with CAUTION!
Main focus:
What do kids really need…
• to know to become good employees?
• to make a contribution in society?
• to be successful in their career choice?
Setting the Foundation
Kids are going to be required to think and perform as they never have before.
1. Higher level thinking skills
2. Inductive and deductive reasoning
3. Writing for multiple purposes
4. Standards alignment and valid assessment
5. Demonstration of understanding
Setting the Foundation
Kids are going to be required to think and perform as they never have before.
6. Perform procedures
7. Make conjectures, analyze, generalize, and prove
8. Solve non-routine problems and/or significant connection
Setting the Foundation
English Language Arts
• Reading
- Informational text
- Complex text
- “Close Reading” strategies
- Vocabulary
Setting the Foundation
English Language Arts
• Writing
- Writing for multiple purposes
- Writing across the curriculum
- Writing for different audiences
- Constructing coherent informed argument
Setting the Foundation
English Language Arts
Students who are college and career can…
• demonstrate independence
• build strong content knowledge
• respond to the varying demands of audience, task, purpose, and discipline
Setting the Foundation
English Language Arts
Students who are college and career can…
• comprehend as well as critique
• value evidence
• use technology and digital media strategically and capably
Setting the Foundation
English Language Arts
Students who are college and career can…
• come to understand other perspectives and cultures
Setting the Foundation
Mathematics
• Mathematical Understanding
- Justifying that a math statement is true
- Mathematical understanding and procedural skills equally important
- Blend themes in mathematics
Setting the Foundation
Mathematics
See the Need
Quick think!
What are THREE reasons this change will be good for our students and their futures?
Implementation Plans
Year One
• Curriculum development
- mapping
- matching
- identifying gaps with respect to content knowledge
- beginning to teach the new standards
Implementation Plans
Year One
• Examination of and initial enhancement of rigor levels in the classroom
- identify/begin to implement professional development based on needs
• Evaluation of resources, including technology
Implementation Plans
Year One
• Overview presentation about the Common Core Standards to the Board of Education
• Initial communication to parents/families
Implementation Plans
Year Two
• Continued enhancement of instructional rigor with professional development where necessary
• Teaching the new standards
• Review of classroom assessment practices with a goal to move towards more
application-based performance assessments
Implementation Plans
Year Two
• Integration of technology as it relates to the Common Core Standards
• Purchasing of resources
• Communication at a deeper level with parents and families
• Consideration of report card modifications
Implementation Plans
Year Three
• Full implementation
- aligned, operational curriculum
- enhanced instructional rigor
- ongoing purchases of resources
- use of technology to support standards
- standards-based report cards
Matrix of Sustainable Change
Vision + Skills + Incentives +
Resources + Action Plan Sustainable
Change
Skills + Incentives +
Resources + Action Plan Confusion
Vision +Incentives
+Resources
+ Action Plan Anxiety
Vision + Skills + Resources + Action Plan Resistance
Vision + Skills + Incentives + Action Plan Frustration
Vision + Skills + Incentives +
Resources + Treadmill
Professional Learning Associates
One District’s Implementation Model
Year One
• In East Peoria District 86 – The Vision
Align the ELA and Math curricula with the Common Core Standards
Engage the other feeder districts and the high school in a multi-district approach
The Action Plan
• Recruit an instructional leadership team• Set the foundation of the Common Core with
the staff• Communicate with the other superintendents
and recruit implementation teams• Schedule once a month workdays with the
implementation teams for the entire school year
Tasks in the Action Plan
• Become familiar with the Common Core• Develop and use common language where
appropriate• Map the skills column of a consensus
curriculum map• Include the Common Core Standards in the
skills column
An Example in ELA
Content Skills Assessments Resources
1. Details (Key Ideas
and Details)
1. Details (With prompting and support) a. Identify key details in a text b. Ask questions about key details c. Answer questions about key details
An Example in Math
Content Skills Assessments Resources1. Ratio Concepts and Reasoning - Ratios
1a. Write ratio notation ( ___:___, ___to____, ____/____)1b. Write ratios in the proper order1c. Simplify ratios1d. Compare two quantities (same units or different units) using ratios1e. Recognize that ratios appear in a variety of contexts (part-to-whole, part-to-part, and rates)1f. Generalize that all ratios relate two quantities or measures within a given situation in a multiplicative relationship1g. Analyze content or text to determine which kind of ratio is represented
The Skills
• How to create a quality curriculum map• How to use a web-based system to enter
information into the maps• How to decipher the Common Core
Standards
Resources for Mapping
• Implementation teams to map• Substitutes for release time• Curriculum mapping software• Common Core Standards• Kentucky Department of Education’s
Deconstructed Standards
The Incentive
• Provide an operational curriculum that will assist students to be on their way to achieving the title of, “College and Career Ready.”
Next Steps
• District completion of all three columns in the curriculum maps
• Continue with the elements in the implementation plan:– Implementation of the aligned curriculum– Instructional Rigor– Assessment Practices– Acquiring Resources– Communication– Technology Integration
Contact Information
Jan Leonard
cc-tech.wikispaces.com
Gail Owen
www.mid-illini.org
Scott Estes
http://teacherweb.com/IL/EastPeoriaCentralJuniorHighSchool/MrEstes/apt1.aspx