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Implementing Common Core Standards. Sandra Alberti Student Achievement Partners September 26, 2011. Overview. What needs to change ELA/Literacy Math Suggested Action Steps for LEAs. ELA/Literacy: 6 shifts. Balance of literature and informational text (K-5)
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Implementing Common Core Standards Sandra Alberti Student Achievement Partners September 26, 2011
Overview • What needs to change • ELA/Literacy • Math • Suggested Action Steps for LEAs
ELA/Literacy: 6 shifts • Balance of literature and informational text (K-5) • Literacy as part of science and social studies/history; informational text as part of ELA (6-12) • Appropriately complex text • Questions regarding text are text-dependent • Writing to inform or argue using evidence • Academic Vocabulary
Mathematics • FOCUS • FOCUS • FOCUS • Coherence • Fluency • Deep Understanding • Application • Intensity
Advice to LEAs • You need numbers to make this happen! • Materials: • Teachers • Students
Assessment • Strongest message you can send • ELA/Literacy • Informational passages • Writing to sources – not narrative, decontextualized prompts • Math • Focus
Implementing Common Core Standards Sandra Alberti Student Achievement Partners salberti@studentsachieve.net
Resources • http://ime.math.arizona.edu/progressions/ • www.PTA.org