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A Parent’s Guide Lowell Elementary PTA Meeting Tuesday, October 22, 2013

A Parent’s Guide Lowell Elementary PTA Meeting Tuesday, October 22, 2013. To view this video http://www.lbschools.net “C” for Common Core. This three-minute video below explains how the Common Core State Standards

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A Parent’s Guide Lowell Elementary PTA Meeting Tuesday, October 22, 2013

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  1. A Parent’s Guide Lowell Elementary PTA Meeting Tuesday, October 22, 2013

  2. To view this video http://www.lbschools.net “C” for Common Core This three-minute video below explains how the Common Core State Standards will help students achieve at high levels and help them learn what they need to know to get to graduation and beyond.

  3. Core standards adopted by 45 states, the District of Columbia, 4 territories, and the Department of Defense Education Activity.

  4. The “Shifts” • ELA • Building Knowledge through content rich non-fiction. • Reading, writing and speaking grounded in evidence from the text (both literary and informational.) • Regular practice with complex text and its academic language. • Math • Focus strongly where the • Standards focus. • Coherence: Think across grade levels and link to major topics within grade levels. • Rigor: In major topics, pursue conceptual understanding, procedural skill and fluency, and application.

  5. College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards ELA, History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects K-5 Reading Focus: Literature, Informational Text, & Foundational Skills Writing Speaking & Listening Language

  6. Students Who Are College and Career ReadyReading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, and Language • 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

  7. Common Core Mathematics Content Standards • Big Ideas. Support Connections across the grades. (Domains) • Groups of related standards within the domain. (Clusters) • What students should understand and be able to do. (Standards) • Domains are the same at each grade level. Standards are different at each grade level.

  8. Mathematical Practice Standards 1) Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them 2) Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 3) Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. 4) Model with mathematics. 5) Use appropriate tools strategically. 6) Attend to precision. 7) Look for and make use of structure. 8) Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

  9. Content + Practice Standards= Together these standards address both “habits of mind” that students should develop to foster mathematical understanding and expertise and skills and knowledge. “What students need to know and be able to do.” The mathematical content standards were built on progressions of topics across grade levels, informed by both research on children’s cognitive development and by the logical structure of mathematics.

  10. Math Testing • CST • 100% Skills & Fluency • 4-choice multiple choice • 2nd grade - Juniors • Smarter Balanced • 60% Skills & Fluency • 20% Concept Development • 20% Problem Solving • 3rd grade – 8th • High School Juniors only

  11. Smarter Balance ELA & Math Test Question Types Selected-response items Technology-enhanced items Constructed-response items Performance tasks

  12. LBUSD “Where are we?” 2014 - 2015 Common Core State Standards Test

  13. “What can I do as a Parent?” https://www.lbschools.net LBUSD select “c” and Common Core This District webpage will connect you to resources in the following areas: About Common Core Assessment Testing with Smarter Balance California Office to Reform Education Parent & Student Support Teacher Support Resources LBUSD Curriculum Documents

  14. “Parent Roadmaps”Documents that you can download and print for each grade level and content area.Approximately 6 pages each. English Language Arts K-12 http://www.commoncoreworks.org/Page/330 Mathematics K-12 http://www.commoncoreworks.org/domain/149

  15. Smarter Balanced Practice Test https://sbacpt.tds.airast.org/student/ Click “Sign In” Select “Grade #” Click “Yes” Click “Start G# Math” or “Start G# ELA” Choose settings and click “Select” Click “Yes, Start my Test” Click “Begin Test Now”

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