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Mining the Best Resources for Common Core State Standards. Sandra M. Alberti, Ed.D . Student Achievement Partners. Standards-Based Instruction. Clear expectations Clear connection of classroom activities to expectations Clear information on student progress toward meeting expectations.
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Mining the Best Resources for Common Core State Standards Sandra M. Alberti, Ed.D. Student Achievement Partners
Standards-Based Instruction • Clearexpectations • Clear connection of classroom activities to expectations • Clear information on student progress toward meeting expectations.
The Shifts Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction. Reading, writing, and speaking grounded in evidence from text, both literary and informational Regular practice with complex text and its academic language
Mining Resources Bring it back to the Standards – Is it Working for Kids? How do you know? Evidence/(formal and informal) Assessment What do you need?
Evaluation of Resources Issue of Alignment to Common Core State Standards Other Considerations?
Tools for Evaluation of Alignment - History Common Core State Standards Publishers’ Criteria for ELA/Literacy Publishers’ Criteria for ELA/Literacy K-2Publishers’ Criteria for ELA/Literacy 3-12 Tri-State Rubric EQuIP Rubric Instructional Materials Evaluation Tool (IMET)
What is the Toolkit? An Overview • Purpose: • To catalyze the impact that the CCSS can have on student achievement by building and applying a common vision of CCSS aligned, high quality instructional and assessment materials • What it is: • Collaboration between Achieve, CCSSO and Student Achievement Partners • A resource that brings together a set of interrelated, freely available tools for evaluating instructional and assessment materials for alignment to CCSS • Audience: • Educators • Developers
Key Design Features Derived from or closely aligned with the guidelines provided in the Publishers’ Criteria The Publishers’ Criteria were developed from the perspective that publishers and purchasers are equally responsible for ensuring high quality instructional materials. They do not define, endorse or prescribe curriculum; those decisions are, and should be, local within each state or district. Included tools do not address all factors that may be important in determining whether instructional materials and assessments are appropriate in a given local or state context but instead aim to clearly articulate the criteria for alignment to the CCSS
What’s In and What’s Out? IN OUT Leveled texts (only) Reading any ‘oltext Solely literature Collection of unrelated texts Mostly text-to-self questions Personal opinions about issues Accent on literary terminology Emphasis on pre-reading Reading strategies Reading foundations (peripheral and detached) • Daily encounters w/complex texts • Texts worthy of close attention • Balance of literary and info texts • Coherent sequences of texts • Mostly text-dependent questions • Evidence-based analyses • Accent on academic vocabulary • Emphasis on reading & re-reading • Reading strategies • Reading foundations (central and integrated)
It all boils down to. . . Texts Worth Reading and Questions Worth Answering!
Engageny.org Resources Aligned to the Common Core State Standards. Your choice: • adopt • adapt • create
Tri-State/EQuIP Rubric http://www.achieve.org/EQuIP
Let’s Look at Some Key Resources Basal Alignment Project/Anthology Alignment Project Mini-Assessments In Common Tools for PD • iTunes U • PD modules • Text Complexity Resources • Writing Text Dependent Questions Am I doing the Core? • Instructional Practice Guides = Evidence Collection Guides
Wrap-Up • Implementation of the CCSS requires standards-driven instruction supported by high quality instructional materials and assessments. • There will never be just one resource that meets all the needs of all contexts, we therefore need a set of criteria that are grounded in the CCSS that can be widely applied to the judgment of potential resources.