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September 2010. Common Core State Standards Initiative and Wisconsin. Wisconsin Adopts Common Core Standards. Commonly Asked Questions: What does it mean to ad0pt the Common Core Standards? How will the Common Core Standards connect to curriculum, instruction, and assessment?.
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September 2010 Common Core State Standards Initiativeand Wisconsin
Wisconsin Adopts Common Core Standards Commonly Asked Questions: • What does it mean to ad0pt the Common Core Standards? • How will the Common Core Standards connect to curriculum, instruction, and assessment? DPI Guidance Document for Common Core State Standards Initiative http://www.dpi.wi.gov/cal/pdf/commoncorestds-qa.pdf
Opportunities for Collaboration • Communication • Professional learning • Resource development • Curriculum development • Formative and benchmark assessments • Additional resources
Portrait of Students Who Meet ELA Standards Students: • Demonstrate independence • Build strong content knowledge • Respond to the varying demands of audience, task, purpose, and discipline • Comprehend as well as critique • Value evidence • Use technology and digital media strategically and capably • Come to understand other perspectives and cultures
Portrait of Students Who Meet Mathematics Standards Standards for Mathematical Practice: • Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them • Reason abstractly and quantitatively • Construct viable arguments and critique reasoning 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
Overview to English Language Arts Standards Common Core Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects • College and Career Readiness (CCR) Anchor Standards for each strand: • Reading • Writing • Speaking and Listening • Language • Overarching targets (parallel for each grade band)
Strands of English Language Arts Standards • Reading: Text complexity and growth of comprehension • Grades K-5: Literature and Informational Text • Grades K-5: Reading Standards – Foundational Skills • Grades 6-12: Literature and Informational Text • Writing: Text types, responding to reading, and research • Speaking and Listening: Flexible communication and collaboration • Language: Conventions and vocabulary
Overview to English Language Arts Standards Common Core Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects • Grades 6-12: Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, & Technical Subjects • Based on CCR Anchor Standards for Reading • Based on CCR Anchor Standards for Writing • Presented as grade bands: 6-8, 9-10, 11-12 • Technical subjects: defined as engineering, technology, business, design, and other workforce-related subjects; technical aspects of wider fields of study such as art and music
Overview to Mathematics Standards • Standards for Mathematical Practice • Standards for Mathematical Content • K-8 grade level standards • Algebraic thinking standards indicated in K-5 • Grade level overviews: K-8 • Mathematical Standards for High School • Conceptual categories • Additional standards for preparation for advanced courses
Strands of Mathematics Standards • Grades K-5 • Numbers and Operations • Operations and Algebraic Thinking • Measurement and Data • Geometry • Grades 6-8 • Number System • Ratios and Proportional Relationships [Gr. 8 – Functions] • Expressions and Equations • Geometry • Statistics and Probability
Strands of Mathematics Standards • High School • Numbers and Quantity • Algebra • Functions • Modeling • Geometry • Statistics and Probability
Resources for Implementation Tools to lead the conversation around implementation • Set of common beliefs • CESAs’ Foundations Kit • Framework(s) for curriculum, assessments, instruction • Examples from pilot sites (“early implementers”)
Context of State Assessment • Fall 2010: Administration of WKCE • 2010-2015 (Projected): Development of SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium’s formative resources, and benchmark and summative items • 2013-2014 (Projected): Piloting and field testing of the summative assessment • 2014-2015: New summative assessment system is projected to be in place
Common Core State Standards Websites: • WI DPI: http://www.dpi.wi.gov/standards • Common Core State Standards Initiative: http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards /
Questions / Further Information Emilie Amundson, English Language Arts emilie.amundson@dpi.wi.gov Jacque Karbon, Reading jacque.karbon@dpi.wi.gov Diana Kasbaum, Mathematics diana.kasbaum@dpi.wi.gov Shelley Lee, Science shelley.lee@dpi.wi.gov Kristen McDaniel, Social Studies kristen.mcdaniel@dpi.wi.gov Paul Sandrock, Content and Learning Team s.paul.sandrock@dpi.wi.gov