Common Core Georgia Performance Standards: Connecting the WHAT to the HOW

1. Common Core Georgia Performance Standards: Connecting the WHAT to the HOW LWE Parent Presentation

2. District Goals • Graduation Rate – 90% of Fulton students will graduate on time • College Readiness – 85% of Fulton’s high school seniors will meet the average SAT score of the 25th percentile of students accepted to University System of Georgia colleges or universities • Career Readiness – An aggressive percentage of students (measurement to be determined) will meet an objective standard for work readiness in the areas of applied math, reading for information and locating information.

3. Key Features of Common Core • aligned with college and work expectations • clear, understandable, and consistent • rigorous content and application of knowledge through higher-order skills • built upon strengths and lessons of current state standards • informed by other top-performing countries so that all students are prepared to succeed in the global economy and society Daggett and Gendron(Aug., 2010). Common Core State Standards Initiative: Classroom Implications for 2014 http://www.leadered.com/pdf/Common%20Core%20Standards%20Paper%20FINAL.pdf

4. CCGPS Implementation Plan Themes of CCGPS:Depth Of Knowledge (Rigor), Text Complexity, Literacy, Integration of Standards, and Balanced Assessment Begin with key level staff for redelivery Implementation: Continue with addition of Math 10th grade; updates as necessary; field test PARCC assessments; new Science standards expected Preparation for Implementation: Develop August roll-out PL; continue alignment of teacher resources and assessments Spring 2012 Summer 2012 2012 - 2013 2013 - 2014 2014 - 2015 Fall 2011 Implementation: ELA K-12, Math K – 9, Literacy in SS, Sci, and CTAE 6 – 12; support school level facilitators; communicate PARCC updates; revise instructional units, align policies as needed Preparation for Implementation: Create a network of school level facilitators; continue redelivery; redesign ELA and Math Scope and Sequences and Instructional Units; begin alignment of assessments and progress monitoring; communication to all stakeholders Full Implementation Standards, Policies, and Practices in alignment; PARCC Assessments Providing a Foundation of Academic Excellence for Our Students

5. Underlying themes of Common Core GPS College and Career Ready Writing Balanced Assessment Mathematics English/ Language Arts Career Tech Social Studies Science ESOL, World Languages Fine Arts Health, Physical Education Common Core Georgia Performance Standards

6. Common Core GPS requires a shift in • Focus from high school completion to college and career readiness for all students. • Mind sets from all students can learn to all students will learn and demonstrate learning at high levels. • Instructional practices for all teachers, not just ELA and Math. • Focus from daily reading and writing in ELA to literacy across all content areas.

7. Transitioning State Assessments to CCGPS

8. State assessment programs will transition to CCGPS, not be redeveloped • A Common Assessment (PARCC) will be implemented in 2014-2015. • Transition is possible given the alignment of the GPS to the CCGPS. • Care will be taken to ensure students are not tested on content they have not had an opportunity to learn. • New content will be carefully infused.

9. CCGPS Assessment Transition Timeline 2014-15 (current plan) • Grades 3 – 8 • PARCC in ELA/literacy and Math • CRCT in Science and Social Studies • High School • PARCC in ELA/literacy and Math • EOCT in Science and Social Studies

10. PARCC Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers

11. PARCC Assessment Priorities • Determine whether students are college- and career-readyor on track • Assess the full range of the Common Core Standards, including standards that are difficult to measure with performance based tasks • Measure the full range of student performance, including the performance of high and low performing students

12. PARCC Assessment Priorities • Provide data during the academic year to inform instruction, interventions and professional development • Provide data for accountability, including measures of growth • Incorporate innovative approaches throughout the system

13. PARCC Assessment Design English Language Arts/Literacy and Mathematics, Grades 3-11 Required States may choose to provide to systems • End-of-Year • Assessment • Innovative, computer-based items • Mid-Year Assessment • Performance-based • Emphasis on hard-to-measure standards • Potentially summative • Performance-Based • Assessment (PBA) • Extended tasks • Applications of concepts and skills • Diagnostic Assessment • Early indicator of student knowledge and skills to inform instruction, supports, and professional learning Speaking And Listening Summative, Required assessment Non-summative/Formative, optional assessment

14. Significant Shifts in Assessment • Performance Tasks • Close Reading • Informational Text • Analytical writing • Mathematical Practices • Technology Enhanced Questions • Expanded Accommodations