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COMMON CORE IMPLEMNTATION IN NEW YORK CITY: SUPPORTING COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS

COMMON CORE IMPLEMNTATION IN NEW YORK CITY: SUPPORTING COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS. NYU Steinhardt Education Policy Breakfast Friday, November 30, 2012. The common core are part of our College & Career Readiness Benchmarks.

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COMMON CORE IMPLEMNTATION IN NEW YORK CITY: SUPPORTING COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS

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  1. COMMON CORE IMPLEMNTATION IN NEW YORK CITY: SUPPORTING COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS NYU Steinhardt Education Policy Breakfast Friday, November 30, 2012

  2. The common core are part of our College & Career Readiness Benchmarks

  3. TRANSITIONING TO THE COMMON CORE IS A MULTI-YEAR PROCESS IN NEW YORK CITY 2009-10 • New York State adopts Common Core standards. 2010-11 • New York City launches Common Core pilots in 100 schools. 2011-12 • All New York City schools implement citywide instructional expectations. • New York State integrates Common Core into grades 3-8 NYS tests. • New York State releases curriculum materials aligned to the Common Core. • All New York City schools implement broader, deeper instructional expectations. 2012-13 • All New York City schools implement citywide instructional expectations as final part of transition to the Common Core. • New York State begins to integrate Common Core into some Regents exams. 2013-14 2014-15 • Students across New York State take State PARCC* assessments. *New York is part of a consortium of states, the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), working together to develop new state assessments. 3

  4. In 2011-12, NYC created A SET OF citywide INSTRUCTIONAL EXPECTATIONS Students • By March, complete one literacy and one math task embedded in a Common Core-aligned curriculum unit • In literacy: Students will read and analyze nonfiction texts and write opinions and arguments in response • In math: Students will engage in a challenging task that requires them to solve “real-world” problems and/or figure out the reasoning behind arguments to get to a solution • Work in teams to review student work and align curriculum, pedagogy, and assessments with the Common Core • Share with families at February/March parent-teacher conferences Teachers • Provide teachers with meaningful feedback tied to an evidence-based rubric of teacher practice • Consider how teacher practice needs to change to align to the Common Core; provide appropriate support School Leaders 4

  5. 2012-13 CITYWIDE INSTRUCTIONAL EXPECTATIONS GO BROADER AND DEEPER Students • Engage in multiple Common Core-aligned units of study across content areas • Experience more challenging, rigorous discussions and assignments Teachers • Deepen understanding of the Common Core and the use of the Danielson Framework for Teaching to shift instructional practice • Focus teacher development on the Common Core • Strengthen the common language and understanding of what quality teaching looks like aligned to the Danielson Framework • Conduct frequent formative observations and provide feedback and professional development to support improved practice in identified competencies School Leaders Families • Teachers and school leaders share students’ Common Core work and progress toward college and career readiness with families 5

  6. THIS YEAR, COMMON CORE WORK WILL REQUIRE ALL GRADES TO SHIFT INSTRUCTION 2012-13 These units will focus on shifts in instruction that align to the Common Core: 6

  7. TEACHERS OF GRADES PK-8 WILL ADJUST PRACTICE TO ACCOMMODATE CHANGES 2012-13 In grades PK-8, schools will use guidance from the DOE to review the full school year and: 7

  8. Resources to support implementation of instructional expectations: Exemplary instructional materials Tools for analyzing quality and alignment PK-8 scope and sequence samples in math Guidance for implementation of the shifts in literacy Professional learning materials to increase teacher effectiveness Modules and videos, including an introduction to text complexity Protocols and other teacher team resources Resources for families Links to State and other resources IN MARCH 2011, new york city LAUNCHED THE COMMON CORE LIBRARY to share resources ONLINE • Since launch: • 160,000+ unique users • 1,750,000+ page views • Monthly usage continues to grow 8

  9. INSTRUCTIONALRESOURCES BEGIN TO SCALE WORK ACROSS NEW YORK CITY • A new searchable database allows educators to find tasks using keywords, grade, subject and CCLS • 55 instructional resource bundles are currently available across all grades in ELA, math, social studies and science • An instructional resource includes: • Task • Rubrics • Annotated student work • Universal Design for Learning guidance • Annotated tasks (for English language learners and students with disabilities) • Other instructional supports 9

  10. The standards ASK TEACHERS TO FOCUS IN MATH; we provided day-by-day curricula • Teachers should prioritize use of instructional time to support students in building conceptual understanding, fluency, and the ability to apply important mathematical concepts • Worked with teachers to examine current materials and create guides for their use across the year: what to use, what to omit, and where to supplement 10

  11. COMMON CORE LAB SCHOOLS ARE DEVELOPING A DEEP UNDERSTANDING OF QUALITY INSTRUCTION ALIGNED TO THE COMMON CORE • 35 schools across all five boroughs, serving K-12 • Use a structured framework for assessment, common rubrics, and high-quality tools to generate a normed understanding of quality instruction aligned to the Common Core • Piloting Text and Task Sets, with intensive, direct support provided to a sub-group of 10 schools and their librarians • Offer opportunities for intensive professional learning throughout the year via differentiated support from Lab Coaches and Network Lab Leads, Innovative Online and face-to-face PD, and at 6 cross-school convenings • August-October • 2 -day August Launch • 1 full-day PD to Look at Teacher and Student Work • 70 school visits by Lab Coaches • Opportunity for schools to participate in conferences in Virginia and Kentucky 11

  12. The standards specify a Balance of literary and informational texts • Sample 8th Grade English Language Arts Task: • After researching the articles "The American Dream" and "An Itinerant Life Weighs on Farmworkers' Children" and what we’ve read from Of Mice and Men on migrant workers, write an essay that argues your position on which of the following obstacles is the most insurmountable for migrant workers to achieve the American Dream: poverty, lack of consistent education, or the difficulty of putting down roots. Support your position with evidence from your research. 12

  13. COMMON CORE FELLOWS ARE HELPING TO LEAD IMPLEMENTATION ACROSS THE CITY • Established in 2011-12 with 60 Fellows, representing teachers and coaches from across the City • Grew to 300 Fellows in 2012-13 • Goals of the program include: • Giving feedback to educators across the system on the quality of their Common Core standards-aligned work by: • Reviewing instructional tasks and units • Advising on strengths and next steps in terms of quality of task and alignment to the Common Core • Building an understanding of what the Common Core looks like in teacher and student work across the system • Establishing a team of Common Core experts across the City • Collecting exemplars of instructional resources aligned to the Common Core 13

  14. EARLY EFFORTS HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL: TEACHERS UNDERSTAND THE STANDARDS AND RECEIVE FEEDBACK ON THEIR PRACTICE Percentages may not sum to one hundred due to rounding. District 75 school data is not included here. 14

  15. 2012-13 NY STATE TESTS WILL ALIGN TO THE COMMON CORE IN 3-8 ELA AND MATH • In 3-8 ELA, tests will focus on: • Comparing two or more texts, including listening passages, writing passages, and graphics; • Reading and analyzing informational passages without narrative structure, dialogue, or characters, and discussing arguments, evidence, and claims; • Requiring students to engage with a 50/50 split of literary and informational texts; and • Responding to prompts that are more text-dependent: 35% of prompts will require students to convey an opinion/argue, 35% to explain, and 30% to convey experience. • In math: • In keeping with the Common Core’s emphasis on depth over breadth, tests will emphasize the major work of the grade, a set of key concepts that helps teacher prioritize where to spend most of their instructional time. Concepts may be assessed at different grade levels from those in the past. • Tests will include more questions that require students to take multiple steps in order to solve them; • Questions that in the past have focused on testing mathematical vocabulary will instead require students to apply skills based on their understanding of that vocabulary; • Questions using tools like rulers or protractors will include prompts that require students to both choose the appropriate tool and apply mathematical concepts in using the tool.

  16. IN OTHER STATES, MORE RIGOROUS STATE TESTS HAVE LED TO DROPS IN SCORES • Kentucky was the first state to adopt the Common Core standards and to administer assessments aligned to the Common Core • When measured by this higher bar, students’ scores dropped: 16

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