Common Core State Standards and Curriculum Mapping Initiative Schauna Findlay, Ph.D. Director of Curriculum and Instruc

1. Common Core State Standards and Curriculum Mapping Initiative Schauna Findlay, Ph.D. Director of Curriculum and Instruction Indiana Department of Education

2. What is the Common Core State Standards Initiative? • The Common Core State Standards Initiative is a significant and historic opportunity for states to collectively develop and adopt a core set of academic standards in mathematics and English language arts including literacy standards for science, social studies, and technical subjects • More than 30 states have already adopted the Common Core

3. The Criteria • Fewer, clearer, and higher • Aligned with college and work expectations • Include rigorous content and application of knowledge through high-order skills • Build upon strengths and lessons of current state standards • Internationally benchmarked so that all students are prepared to succeed in our global economy and society • Evidence- and/or research-based

4. Development and Example Phase 1: • College and Career - Readiness Standards • Standard 1: “Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.”

5. Phase 2: • K-12 Standards/Learning Progressions • Grade 3: “Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, explicitly using the text as the basis for the answers.” • Grade 4: “Draw on details and examples from a text to support statements about the text.” • Grade 5: “Quote from a text to support statements about the text.”

6. Why is a common core of state standards good for everyone? • It will help prepare all students with the knowledge and skills needed to succeed in college and careers • It will help students who move between states • It allows states to align curricula to internationally benchmarked standards • It allows for more focused pre-service education and professional development

7. Why is a common core of state standards good everyone? • It creates potential economies of scale around areas such as curriculum, instructional resources, and assessment • It provides the opportunity to compare and evaluate policies that affect student achievement across states and districts • It creates the opportunity for America to compete for high-wage, high-skill jobs in a knowledge-based economy

9. Indiana’s Teaching and Testing of Standards Timeline 2010-11 Math English Teachers will teach English/language arts 2006 standards For ISTEP+ English/ language arts 2006 standards will be tested • Teachers will teach Math 2000 standards • Teachers will NOT teach Math 2009 standards • For ISTEP+ Math 2000 standards will be tested

10. Indiana’s Teaching and Testing of Standards Timeline 2011-12 Math English Teachers will teach English/language arts 2006 standards Teachers will also teach Common Core standards For ISTEP+ English/language arts 2006 standards will be tested For selected schools, Common Core test items will be piloted • Teachers will teach Math 2000 standards • Teachers will also teach Common Core standards • For ISTEP+ Math 2000 standards will be tested • For selected schools, Common Core test items will be piloted

11. Indiana’s Anticipated Teaching and Testing of Standards Timeline 2012-14 Math English Teachers will teach English/language arts 2006 and Common Core standards For ISTEP+ English/ language arts IN 2006 and Common Core standards will be tested • Teachers will teach Math 2000 and Common Core standards • For ISTEP+ Math 2000 and Common Core standards will be tested

12. National Anticipated Testing of Common Core Standards 2014-15 We anticipate a multi-state test on the Common Core State Standards. We expect this test will be given over the course of the year , so results can be acted upon, with the final section at the end of the year. We expect this assessment will be given online, with paper and pencil testing only used as an accommodation.

13. How will IDOE help schools? Standards Correlation Reports will be shared in 2010-11 Curriculum Maps • IDOE developed E/LA and math maps • To assist teachers how to integrate the two sets of standards as we transition from the old to the new • To assist teachers in determining the skills that underlie each standard and that students need to learn • To provide a common sequence so assessments can be aligned which will inform adjustments to instruction Training on Common Core Standards and Curriculum Maps will be provided at the ESCs and by IDOE.

14. Developing Curriculum Maps Moving from standard indicators to learning targets and units of instruction • Step 1: Using Indiana’s current standards, teams of classroom teachers, professors, content specialists, and curriculum mapping experts deconstructed standards to determine specific learning targets, including the level of rigor.

15. Deconstructing Standards Is... • A systematic process to identify embedded learning targets in standard indicators so that nothing essential is missed during instruction • Learning Targets: What students should know, understand and be able to do to master the indicators

16. ELA.3.3.1 -- Recognize different common genres (types) of literature, such as poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction.

17. Clear Learning Targets Allow Us To: • Know if the assessment adequately covers and samples what was taught. • Correctly identify what students know and don’t know and their level of achievement. • Plan next steps in instruction. • Give detailed, descriptive feedback to students. • Have students self-assess or set goals likely to help them learn more. • Select instructional activities that actually help students achieve the target.

18. Unit Development Big Ideas The important understandings that we want students to retain after they’ve forgotten many of the details, also called enduring understandings Essential Questions Questions deliberately selected to drive instruction and assessment for a particular unit of study; “We need great teachers doing what they do best—encouraging students to think, reason, write, and communicate their understanding,” Doug Reeves. Essential Questions promote such exemplary practices. Vocabulary Academic and content vocabulary essential to the discipline and for success on ISTEP+ Topics The Learning Targets are organized under topic headings from the Common Core State Standards so we can see how Indiana’s Standards currently address them.

19. What are the benefits of curriculum mapping? • Teachers through collaborative discussions determine the skills students need to be able to know and do by “unpacking” the standard indicators. • The expectations of students are consistent within a grade level. • Cognitive depth builds from year to year when teachers align the standards across the grade levels.

20. Benefits of curriculum mapping, cont’d. • When all schools within a district have aligned and mapped curricula, students who move from school to school are taught in the new school where they left off in the previous school. • Determine gaps – content or skills that are not being taught – and redundancies – areas that are being taught over and over without an increase in cognitive depth.

22. How do the state maps affect my current mapping process? • Your process of mapping should continue; consider adding the learning targets to your current maps • Determine if there are changes to your sequence that might be helpful to your students • Training for districts in improvement and corrective action will go deeper into the curriculum improvement process; not just focusing on creating a map • The state maps will be available in your current software

23. How do we use the curriculum maps if we aren’t mapping now? • Starting point for common planning • Align school’s resources and assessments • Can be printed or saved to record what was actually taught • Access resources for teaching ideas

24. RTI Alignment Acuity Pre- and Post-tests for grades 3-8 have been developed to align with the Learning Targets on the curriculum maps to support RTI. Using this data, teachers can see what adjustments need to be made in instruction and can identify students who need to be remediated and those who need intervention. Additionally, the pre-test results will show the teacher which skills have already been mastered, so he/she can provide more rigorous curriculum for high ability and other high achieving students.

25. Acuity Assessments Review Acuity Options Use of Acuity Data Deciding Which Option to Use How to Switch Options

26. Acuity Assessment Options

27. Acuity Assessment Reports How do I effectively use my Acuity data?

28. Acuity Assessment Reports

29. Acuity – Improving Academic Achievement Acuity View Reports Instruction Organize Data

30. Acuity Assessments How do we decide if we should use the Acuity track (P or D) we have chosen or if we should switch to the new Curriculum Map- Aligned option? • Review your curriculum • Evaluate your goals • Determine what type of data is needed to help you • achieve your goals. • Determine which Acuity Assessment option will support you • in achieving your goals.

31. Acuity Assessments How does my school switch from our current Acuity track to the Curriculum Map- Aligned (CM-A) option for ELA and/or Math*? • If your school is a new or current user of Acuity within the IDOE Diagnostic Assessment Grant Program and you wish to use the ELA and/or Math CM-A option for 2010-11, be sure your superintendent or key corporation Acuity contact: • Sends an email to diagnostic-application@doe.in.gov • Subject: Acuity Track Change to CM-A • Corporation Number • School Number • School Name • CM-A Content Area (ELA and/or Math) *Note: Non-selected CM-A content areas will remain on the track indicated during the spring application process.

32. Resources • Common Core State Standards Initiative http://www.corestandards.org/ • Council of Chief State School Officers http://www.ccsso.org/federal_programs/13286.cfm