Common Core State Standards

1. Common Core State Standards Parent/Community Information October, 2013

2. Educational Standards in California • Educational standards describe what students should know and be able to do in each subject and grade level. • The State Board of Education establishes the standards for all students from Kindergarten through High School • The State Board of Education establishes assessments to measure student mastery of the standards. • The California Department of Education provides support for school districts to make sure all students are meeting the standards.

3. What are the Common Core State Standards? • In 2009, the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA) committed to developing a set of standards that would help prepare students for success in career and college. The CCSS initiative is a voluntary, state-led effort coordinated by the CCSSO and NGA to establish clear and consistent education standards.

4. California Adopts Common Core Standards • August 2010: Senate Bill X5 1 amends California Education Code Section 60605.8 to provide for adoption of the CCSS, including formation of an Academic Content Standards Commission (ACSC) responsible for making a recommendation to the SBE regarding adoption of CCSS. The CCSS can not be changed, but supplemental standards can be added (15%) • Unlike other states, California’s content standards were already quite rigorous, aligning with CCSS in most cases.

5. In 2012, 27,300 of 42,700 college freshman (64%) in the California University system required remedial courses in English, math or BOTH.

6. Overarching Goals of CCSS • All California high school students will graduate as life-long learners with the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed in the 21st century global economy. • College: Academic preparedness without the need for remedial coursework • Career: Academic preparedness needed for industry sector expectations and advanced job training • All students will be provided with rigorous content and applications of knowledge through higher order thinking skills.

7. Timeline for Implementation • Transition: 2013 - 2014 • Modify existing instructional units & district assessments • Field Testing Smarter Balanced Assessments - no individual scores or API/AYP • Implementation: 2014 - 2015 • Continue to modify instructional units and district assessments • Smarter Balanced Assessments gr 3 – 8 & 11 to create new API/AYP baseline for accountability

8. What is covered by the standards? • Standards for English/Language Arts • Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science and Technical Subjects • College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards • Standards for Mathematics • Content Standards & Standards of Mathematical Practice

9. What is not covered by the standards? • “The Standards define what all students are expected to know and be able to do, not how teachers should teach.” Common Core State Standards for English, August 2010, Updated March 2013. • “The aim of the Standards is to articulate the fundamentals, not to set out an exhaustive list or a set of restrictions that limits what can be taught beyond what is specified herein.” Common Core State Standards for English, August 2010, Updated March 2013

10. What do the Common Core State Standards Include?

11. What’s different in English/Language Arts? • Same curriculum is used with instructional strategies: • Close Reading - annotating and analyzing texts • Language Frames to promote scholarly speaking and listening • Instructional Routines for collaborative work with individual accountability • Frequent writing using valid reasoning and evidence from texts

12. Common Core English Standards Example

13. Comparison: California 1997 Standards with CCSS English

14. What do the Common Core State Standards Include?

15. Standards of Mathematical Practice These standards apply to all math content areas: • Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. • Reason abstractly and quantitatively. • Construct viable arguments and critique the 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

16. Comparison of Math Standards

17. What’s different in Mathematics? • Use the same curriculum and add instructional strategies: • Application of math and problem solving • Students explain their answers in mathematics • Students choose the mathematical tools to use to solve a problem rather than being given the formula • Collaborative work with individual accountability

18. Twenty-first Century Skills • Students are not entering a multiple choice world. • Genuine readiness for college and 21st century careers requires the ability to find, evaluate, synthesize and use knowledge in new contexts to solve non-routine problems and produce new products • This requires well-developed thinking, problem solving, design and communication skills

19. Four Focus Areas in all Subjects • Prepare and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively. • Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. • Read and comprehend complex literary and informational textsindependently and proficiently. • Write arguments and support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.

20. Collaboration Civic Literacy Creativity Critical Thinking Communication 21st Century Skills Smarter Balanced Assessments Common Core State Standards iPads,iPods, Mobile Devices Fisher/Frey Gradual Release of Responsibility API/AYP Online Learning

21. Transitioning Assessments2013 - 2014 • VCPUSD’s Current Assessments: • Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA) - continues as is • District Benchmarks and Common Midterms/Finals transitioning to Common Core • Mandated California State Assessments • Smarter Balanced Assessments – no results from field test (no API/AYP accountability) • California English Language Development Test (CELDT) • California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE) • California Alternative Performance Assessment (CAPA) • Science CST grades 5,8,10 • Physical Fitness Testing grades 5, 7, 9

22. Transitioning Assessments2014 - 2015 • VCPUSD’s Current Assessments: • Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA) - continues as is • District Benchmarks and Common Midterms/Finals transitioned to Common Core • Mandated California State Assessments • Smarter Balanced Assessments – API/AYP accountability • California English Language Development Test (CELDT) • California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE) • California Alternative Performance Assessment (CAPA) • Science CST grades 5,8,10 • Physical Fitness Testing grades 5, 7, 9

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26. Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessments • Computer Adaptive Online Testing grades 3-8 & 11 • Variety of Assessment Items: • Selected Response (multiple choice) • Non-traditional Selected Response (more than one correct answer) • Constructed Response (student writes an answer) • Short Constructed Response • Extended Constructed Response (mini performance task) • Performance Task (complex problem-solving – grade 3 & up)

27. Example - Grade 6 – STAR Multiple Choice Exam A rectangular painting has an area of 720 square inches. Jasmine reduced both the length and width of this painting by a scale factor of 1/6 to create a miniature copy. What is the area of the miniature copy? A. 12 square inches B. 20 square inches C. 60 square inches D. 120 square inches

28. Example - Smarter Balanced type Grade 6 Alexis needs to paint the four exterior walls of a large rectangular barn. The length of the barn is 80 feet, the width is 50 feet, and the height is 30 feet. The paint costs $28 per gallon, and each gallon covers 420 square feet. How much will it cost Alexis to paint the barn? Explain your work.

29. What student information is included with Smarter Balanced Assessments? • Student’s Name & Student ID Number • Student’s Birthdate, Gender, & Home Language • Student’s Race & Ethnicity (optional for parents to disclose) • Student’s English Learner status & start date in U.S. schools if applicable • Student’s Special Education status if applicable • Student’s Free/Reduced Meal status if applicable • Parents’ highest level of education (optional for parents to disclose)

30. How is student information used in testing? • California State Department of Education’s Privacy Policy states that individual student information is to be used internally only, not provided to any outside agency including the Federal Government. • Student information is used in the aggregate to determine effectiveness of educational programs, achievement of individual students and subgroups of students.

31. Smarter Balanced Student Data Privacy Policy • At a meeting in Los Angeles on September 10, Smarter Balanced Governing States voted to move forward with the development of a student data privacy policy. Consistent with the Consortium’s state-led governance and its commitment to responsible flexibility, the vote affirmed that each member state will retain control of student data generated by the assessment system.Governing States unanimously approved the following motion: • Each member state retains control of its student-level data. • Smarter Balanced will develop a data privacy policy consistent with this principle.

32. Primary & Elementary Grades • Kami Callahan • Diana Souther • Karen Van Riper

33. Middle School • EvetteStriblen • Erin Flesher • Stephanie Aguilar

34. High School • Lee Thor • Satya Fleck • Jon Goodman

35. Resources • Valley Center – Pauma Unified School District webpage • www.vcpusd.org for information and links to resources including: • http://www2.sdcoe.net/commoncore/assessment.asp • http://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/se/cc/ • http://www.smarterbalanced.org/pilot-test/ • http://www.scoe.net/castandards/multimedia/k-12_ela_croswalks.pdf • http://www.scoe.net/castandards/multimedia/k-12_math_crosswalks.pdf • Contact your child’s teacher or principal