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Rowan Literacy Consortium. February 22, 2013. Agenda. 8:30-9:30: -Brainstorming: Writer's Institute 9:30-11:00: -Bob Fisicaro, NJ DOE -Q & A 11:00-12:00: -Discussion of RLC 2013-14 Theme -Examples of Resources -Leadership and CCSS: Models
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Rowan Literacy Consortium February 22, 2013
Agenda 8:30-9:30: -Brainstorming: Writer's Institute 9:30-11:00: -Bob Fisicaro, NJ DOE -Q & A 11:00-12:00: -Discussion of RLC 2013-14 Theme -Examples of Resources -Leadership and CCSS: Models 12:00-1:00: Lunch 1:00-3:00*: -Team planning: Action Plans and Lesson Study *each team must start to fill in their google doc slide(s) with information about your action plan and lesson study
Kelly Gallagher March 15, 2013
Summer Institute Opportunity 20 participants (open to RLC Members first) 8 full-day sessions (M-Th) in August Focus: Teaching and Assessing Writing in the Common Core What would help teachers to become confident teachers of writing? What do you see as priorities in teaching writing and being evaluated based on evidence of student learning?
2013-2014 RLC Theme Leading the Common Core Initiative in Your School • Train teacher leaders as CCSS coaches • Model exemplary CCSS teaching • Help educators (teachers, principals, supervisors) understand evaluation systems • Explain the interrelationship among CCSS teaching, evaluation systems and evidence of student learning Your feedback? t
Ideas for next year's RLC • Assessment Needs • How to effectively manage/analyze/implement data • How to address Standards in assessment • Practice in forming assessments especially for reading • Clarity on teacher expectations and time frames • Practice in creating assessments and rubrics for literacy • Quality evaluations of students and teachers • Proper growth statistics • Using formative assessment to drive instruction • Identification of reasonable/rigorous SGOs • Information on PARCC • Rubric change for PARCC • Benchmarking • How to create quality benchmark assessments • Vertical and horizontal alignment of benchmarks • Speaker ideas (Assessment):James Popham, George Hillock, Jr.
Next year's RLC cont'd. • Literacy Leadership • District models • Implementing teacher-coaches • Guest speakers: experts and authors • Training in close reading • Expanding Common Core Knowledge Base • See more Common Core lessons in use • More subject area driven content • Reading/writing projects from Columbia Teacher’s College • Speaker ideas: • Donald Graves and Cris Tovani
Stanford University: ELL and the CCSS Link: UNDERSTANDING LANGUAGE "We seek to improve education for all students—especially English Language Learners. To that end, we are synthesizing knowledge and developing resources that help ensure teachers can meet their students' evolving linguistic needs as the new Standards are implemented."
Action Briefs Role of Elem/Sec Leader International Reading Association
Curators, Not Creators Successful leaders of the Common Core standards will need to help point teachers to key documents and resources that can be most helpful in understanding and implementing the standards. We no longer have to be creators of everything we need; we now can become curators—finding the gems of information and using those to move forward.
National Models Core Task Project (Nevada) About the Project Nevada News article Common Core Champions Edmodo: Leading the Common Core
Possible Roles for Leading CCSS Work Plan for professional development -from making the most of formative assessments -learning new ways to question students -coach them on digging deeper in their thinking to improve critical thinking in all content areas. Consider how professional development courses or workshops need to be differentiated in order to best suit the teachers: -advanced methods -“rebooting” attitudes and opportunities in the classroom. Analyze teacher-developed formative & summative assessments -determine the degree to which students are asked to engage in close reading -construct responses that refer to evidence contained in the text.
Leadership Professional Development Achieve the Core: Instructional Leadership and the Common Core: PD Module ASCD Webinars: Ten Things School Leaders Need to Do to Implement the Common Core State Standards We’ve Started, Now What? Leading Phase Two of Common Core Implementation
Team Work Session CCSS Lesson Study and CCSS Action Plans (To present in April at our last session) Create slides for your district team on our google doc