The Common Core State Standards: Tennessee’s Transition Plan

1. The Common Core State Standards: Tennessee’s Transition Plan March 6, 2012

2. Our transition to Common Core Standards is central to strengthening Tennessee’s Competitiveness Only 21% of adults in TN have a college degree Tennessee’s Competitiveness TN ranks 46thin 4th grade math and 41st in 4th grade reading nationally 54% of new jobs will require post-secondary education Source: “Projections of Jobs and Education Requirements Through 2018” (The Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce), 2011 NCES NAEP data, ACT Only 15% of high school seniors in TN are college ready

3. Implementation of Common Core State Standards complements other work underway

4. This is the next step in the path to reflect what is most important for career and college readiness

5. The Common Core State Standards represent three key instructional shifts MATH: • Focus strongly where the Standards focus • Coherence: think across grades, and link to major topics within grades • Rigor: require conceptual understanding, procedural skill and fluency, and application with intensity. ELA: • Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction and informational texts • Reading and writing grounded in evidence from text • Regular practice with complex text and its academic vocabulary Source: David Coleman, co-author of the ELA Standards

6. Common Core State Standards are narrower… The Common Core State Standards will allow teachers to focus. 166 25 There are 1,119 Tennessee ELA standards notcovered in the Common Core

7. …and deeper. • There were 28 cookies on a plate. • Five children each ate 1 cookie. • Two children each ate 3 cookies. • One child ate 5 cookies. • The rest of the children each ate 2 cookies. • Then the plate was empty • How many children ate 2 cookies? Use multiplication equations and other operations, if needed, to show how you found your answer. • Jane thinks this question can be solved by dividing 28 by 2. She is wrong. Explain using equations and operations why this is not possible.

8. About PARCC • PARCC is an alliance of 25 states working together to develop a common set of K-12 assessments in English and Math • PARCC is state-led and a subset of PARCC states, including Tennessee, make up its Governing Board • Collectively the PARCC states educate more than 31 million students — nearly 63% of K-12 students attending American public schools Source: Achieve

9. PARCC Timeline Source: PARCC

10. PARCC Assessment Grade 8 Source: Common Core Institute

11. PARCC Assessment Grade 8 Source: Common Core Institute

12. PARCC Assessment Grade 8 Source: Common Core Institute

13. Curriculum and Instruction Division Priorities for Common Core Implementation • Effective communication about the standards, importance and potential Student Achievement • Alignment of accountability structure for LEA’s, schools, teachers, and vendors

14. Curriculum and Instruction Division priorities for Common Core implementation • Effective communication about the standards, importance, and potential We will place significant focus on involvement of school and district leaders throughout Common Core Implementation. Without committed leadership, especially at the building level, we believe our preparation will be significantly compromised. • Alignment of accountability structure for LEA’s, schools, teachers, and vendors

15. The Common Core Implementation timeline: classroom standards

16. We will identify TNCoreFocus Standards for each grade level for mathematics in grades 3-8 The 3-8 Math TNCore Focus Standards for the 2012-2013 school-year are:

17. TCAP (Remove SPIs that are not reflected in Common Core State Standards) Math 3-8 Assessment Plan Constructed Response (Expand to 3-8, Focused on Math Focus Clusters) 2013-2014 2011-2012 2012-2013 2014-2015 PARCC NAEP NAEP

18. 2012-2013 Assessment plan, Math 3-8 Student performance on the Constructed Response Assessments will not affect teacher, school or district accountability for the next two years. Small Field Test, May 2012

19. Grades 3-8 math: training and support

20. K-2 focus areas • Conducting a survey of districts to better understand current implementation, successes and challenges • Convene focus groups of districts with promising practices • Encourage districts to focus on math and reading • Support developmentally appropriate assessment and data collection

21. Grades 9-12 math pilots • Release focus clusters for 9-12 math this April • Work with state board to review all high school math course offerings and strengthen policy connection from HS Math Performance to College Math • Convene a group of high-performing teachers to implement the Common Core State Standards in Algebra I and II • Encourage Geometry teachers to incorporate Geometry and Algebra standards from the Common Core State Standards

22. Literacy in 6-12 History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects pilots • Select and convene core coaches in social studies, science, CTE and fine arts to embed literacy (and where appropriate math) standards into instruction this year subjects • Explore writing assessments based on informational texts in the relevant content area

23. Shelby County Schools Next Steps for Common Core Implementation • March C & I CCSS planning sessions • March 6th principal/district admin update CCSS • April AP meetings CCSS update • April Power Standards team meets • July 2012 summer training Math 3-8 CCSS • Summer 2012 update pacing guides • Fall 2012 DLD redelivery to teachers: pacing, resources, and assessments