What are they and what do they mean for my child? Mari Fridgen PD/Curriculum Coordinator

1. Common Core State Standards What are they and what do they mean for my child? Mari Fridgen PD/Curriculum Coordinator Missouri River Education Cooperative

2. Common Core State Standards Initiative Work was underway prior to 2009.

3. Overview of the Initiative State-led and developed common core standards for K-12 in English/language arts (ELA) and mathematics Focus on learning expectations for students, not how students get there.

4. Why Now? Different standards across states Student mobility Global competition Today’s jobs require different skills

5. Why is This Important for Students, Teachers, and Parents? • Prepares students with the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in college and work • Ensures consistent expectations regardless of a student’s zip code • Provides educators, parents, and students with clear, focused guideposts

6. Common Core Intro Video

7. What is the Current Involvment? 45 states, the District of Columbia, and 4 territories have signed on to the Common Core State Standards Initiative

8. What are Standards? • Educational standards help teachers ensure their students have the skills and knowledge they need to be successful by providing clear goals for student learning. • ND has had standards since the 1990s. • Standards are not a curriculum.

9. The Common Core State Standards • The Common Core State Standards are a clear set of shared goals and expectations for the knowledge and skills students need in English language arts and mathematics at each grade level to ultimately be prepared to graduate college and career ready. The standards establish what students need to learn, but they do not dictate how teachers should teach.

10. Sample Standards

11. Sample Standards • RL.6.5 Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.

12. Criteria for the CCSSS • 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 • Based on evidence and research

13. For example: Standards from individual high-performing countries and provinces were used to inform content, structure, and language. Writing teams looked for examples of rigor, coherence, and progression. Mathematics Belgium (Flemish) Canada (Alberta) China Chinese Taipei England Finland Hong Kong India Ireland Japan Korea Singapore • English language arts • Australia • New South Wales • Victoria • Canada • Alberta • British Columbia • Ontario • England • Finland • Hong Kong • Ireland • Singapore

14. External and State Feedback Teams Included: • K-12 teachers • Postsecondary faculty • State curriculum and assessments experts • Researchers • National organizations (including, but not limited, to):

15. Common Standards: The First Step Standards are essential, but inadequate. Along with standards: • Educators must be given resources, tools, and time to adjust classroom practice. • Instructional materials needed that align to the standards. • Assessments must be developed to measure student progress.

16. Major Shifts in ELA 1. Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction 2. Reading, writing and speaking grounded in evidence from text, both literary and informational 3. Regular practice with complex text and its academic language

17. Major Shifts in ELA Literacy Standards for History/Social Studies as well as Science/Technical Classes. • Reading • Writing

18. Lexile Bands

19. Major Shifts is Math • Focusstrongly where the Standards focus • Coherence: Think across grades, and link to major topics within grades • Rigor: In major topics, pursue conceptual understanding, procedural skill and fluency, and application

20. 8 Standards for Mathematical Practice • Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them • Reason abstractly and quantitatively • Construct viable arguments and critique the understanding of others • Model with mathematics • Use appropriate tools strategically • Attend to precision • Look for and make use of structure • Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning

21. New Assessment Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers SMARTER Balance Assessment Consortium PARCC SBAC

22. Grade 3 Math Previous Example • What number does the number line show? 1 2 • 2/3 • 1/3 • 1 1/3 • 3/2 • None

23. Assessment Prototypes PARCCONLINE.ORG

24. Assessment Prototypes SMARTERBALANCED.ORG

25. Common Core + The Catholic Identity • to empower Catholic schools and dioceses to design and direct the implementation of the Common Core standards within the culture and context of a Catholic school curriculum • to infuse the Common Core standards with the faith/principles/values/social justice themes inherent in the mission and Catholic identity of the school.

26. More Information www.corestandards.org www.ndcurriculuminitative.org www.parcconline.org www.smarterbalanced.org www.catholicschoolstandards.org/ common-core

27. Thank you!