Getting to Know the Common Core State Standards (CCSS)

1. Getting to Know the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) March 21, 2011

2. Norms for the Day • Honor Time • Share the Air Time • Positive Participation • Be a Learner • Cell Phones on Vibrate • Stay Focused on the Work of the Day

3. Vision for the CCSS Implementation • Deep Understanding • Meaningful Change • Improved Student Achievement

4. Outcomes • What are the CCSS and where did they come from? • When will we be expected to implement the CCSS? • How will the CCSS affect assessments like the MEAP and MME? • How do the CCSS compare to Michigan’s GLCE and HSCE? • What type of PD is available for us on the CCSS? • What will we have to change? What will stay the same?

5. Agenda • Clicker quiz • Defining excellence • CCSS Background • Exploring the CCSS documents • Michigan implementation of CCSS • Lunch at noon (1 hour on your own) • Planning for implementation • Final assessment

6. Rate your knowledge about/familiarity with the CCSS. • Never heard of it • Heard of it • Looked at the document(s) • Examined the documents

7. Rate your knowledge about/familiarity with your district’s curriculum. • I never used it • I saw it • I used it • I helped create it

8. Rate your district’s curriculum alignment with GLCE/HSCE. • Getting Started • Partially Implemented • Implemented • Exemplary

9. Rate classroom implementation of your district’s curriculum. • Getting Started • Partially Implemented • Implemented • Exemplary

10. How well are your district’s graduates prepared for college and/or career? • I don’t know • Not prepared • Somewhat prepared • Fully prepared

11. How often is your curriculum reviewed/revised? • I don’t know • Quarterly • Yearly • Every 2 to 5 years

12. Which content areas have power standards identified? • ELA • Math • Science • Social Studies • Non-core

13. Rate your district’s integration of reading and writing in all content areas. • Getting Started • Partially Implemented • Implemented • Exemplary

14. Which choice most closely describes your district’s plan for implementation of the common core? • What plan? • The CCSS will go away. • We have had discussions. • Our plan is done and is for sale!

15. What is Excellence?

16. Evidence of Excellence • As a team, brainstorm characteristics of an excellent school/district. • Choose your top five characteristics. • What would be the evidence?

17. What are the CCSS?

18. What are the CCSS?

20. Criteria for Standards Development • Fewer, clearer & higher • Aligned to college & work expectations • 21st Century Skills • Internationally benchmarked • Research & evidence based

21. So, why do we need the CCSS?

22. Data Review As we look at the following graphs, please consider: How might this data be connected to the creation and adoption of the Common Core State Standards?

28. Sources Link • US Performance Across International Assessments http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2009083 • Quality Counts (ED Week: $4.95 fee) http://www.edweek.org/ew/qc/index.html

29. Hope

30. What is Excellent Curriculum?

31. Quality Curriculum

32. Quality Curriculum • Brainstorm what makes a quality curriculum. • Highlight your characteristics in the rubric. • How does this rubric relate to how you answered the pre-quiz? • As a team, rate your district’s curriculum on the rubric. If you are doing both ELA and Math, choose one color for math and one for ELA.

33. Curriculum Rubric

34. What is expected in the common core?

35. Common Core State Standards Introduction Read Around the Text • Read your quotes and discuss with the person who has the same number. • Find the quotes in the texts. • “Read around” the quotes in the time given. • Talk to your partner again and discuss any new insights as well as connections between the two subject areas. • Report out to your entire table.

36. Table Discussion What are the implications for teaching and learning?

37. When is it happening?

38. SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium(SBAC)

40. SBAC Assessment Design Proposal Assessment window vs. single day administration Multiple opportunities to assess Quick results available to support instruction Emphasis on problem-solving and critical thinking Online testing and reporting

41. Timeline for Transition 2010-2011 Getting to know the CCSS/Alignment work 2010 MEAP/2011MME remain the same State focus will be on technical assistance 2011-2012 Implementation of CCSS in classrooms 2011 MEAP/2012 MME remain the same State focus will be on instruction/professional development

42. Timeline for Transition 2012-2013 2012 MEAP minimally modified as necessary to reflect the CCSS 2013 MME remains the same State focus will be on student learning 2013-2014 2013 MEAP based on 2012 model 2014 MME remains the same State focus will be on preparing for new assessments from SMARTER Consortium 2014-2015 Full implementation - Instruction and assessment based on CCSS

43. How will it affect me?

44. Getting to Know the CCSS • Select 5 big ideas at your grade level/course in ELA or Math. • Where is each big idea addressed in the CCSS? • What are the similarities and differences between CCSS and Michigan Content Expectations?

45. MDE Crosswalk link http://www.michigan.gov/mde/0,1607,7-140-6530_30334_51042-232021--,00.html

46. LUNCH • Yum, Yum. See you in an hour.

47. Welcome Back How does this relate to our work with the Common Core State Standards?

48. Where do we start?

49. Implementation Planning • How will this information be shared? • What practices do we need to continue? • What practices do we need to expand? • What practices do we need to discontinue? • What will we do to begin implementing the CCSS?

50. Scheduled PD • Reading Apprenticeship – Literacy in the content areas • Effective Literacy K-3 • K-12 Mathematical Practices • Rethinking Secondary Literacy • Co-teaching