A Primer

1. A Primer

2. What Are the Common Core State Standards? • The Common Core State Standards identify what students need to know and be able to do in each grade level in order to be prepared for college and career. • Teachers will decide the best way to teach their students in order for them to meet Common Core expectations.

3. Goals of CCSS College and Career Readiness

4. Common Core Standards http://www.corestandards.org/Math http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy

5. ELA Shifts

6. Measures of Text Complexity

7. Math Shifts

8. Implementation Timeline

9. M-DCPS CCSS Implementation Plan

10. Florida Readiness Gauge http://www.flccss.org/

11. District CCSS Implementation Plan

12. District Professional Development Plan

13. K-1 CCSS Implementation

14. CCSS Literacy Standards

15. K-1 Instructional Resources

16. K-1 Student Monitoring

17. Teacher Training SUMMER 2013

18. Principal and AP Training

19. CCSSM CCSSM CCSSM NGSSS CCSSM NGSSS CCSSM CCSSM NGSSS NGSSS CCSSM NGSSS CCSSM CCSSM NGSSS

20. District Common Core Website

21. Assessment Design 2 Optional Assessments/Flexible Administration • End-of-Year • Assessment • Innovative, computer-based items • Required • Mid-Year Assessment • Performance-based • Emphasis on hard-to-measure standards • Potentially summative • Performance-Based • Assessment (PBA) • Extended tasks • Applications of concepts and skills • Required • Diagnostic Assessment • Early indicator of student knowledge and skills to inform instruction, supports, and PD • Non-summative • Speaking And Listening Assessment • Locally scored • Non-summative, required

22. Item and Task Prototypes – Grade 3 Reading

23. Item and Task Prototype Grade 6 Reading

24. Item and Task Prototypes Grade 10 Prose Constructed Response from Literary Analysis

25. Grade 3 Math Sample

26. Grade 7 Math Sample

27. Progress in Social Studies- CCSS Implementation • Requiredcourses in grades 6-12 havethe CCSS forHistory/Social Studiesadded at theend of each 9 weeksPacing Guide; • Fullyembeded K-3 Social Studies Guides will be publishedAugust 2013 • Roll out of embedding CCSS intoDistrictsuggested Social StudiesPacing Guides will match thetimeline of Districtimplementation- full scalealignment- 2014-15.

28. Sample from 1st Grade Pacing Guides • Common Core Literacy and Writing Standards for History/Social Studies K-5: • Correlations for Common Core Literacy and Writing Standards for History/Social Studies, grades K-5, can be found at the end of each topic in the Pacing Guide.  When planning lessons for instruction, teachers should address these national standards during their teaching of social studies content to ensure a systematic and proven approach to literacy and writing development.  The Common Core Standards are research and evidenced-based, aligned with college and work expectations, rigorous, and internationally benchmarked.  For a complete listing of all Common Core Standards, please visit: http://www.corestandards.org. The specific standards for Social Studies K-5 for Literacy and Writing have been extracted from the Common Core Standards document and placed at the end of each topic in the Pacing Guide. 

29. Sample from 1st Grade Pacing Guides

30. Sample from 6-12 Pacing Guides • Common Core Literacy and Writing Standards for History/Social Studies 6-12: • Common Core Literacy and Writing Standards for History/Social Studies, grades 6-12, can be found at the end of each nine weeks Pacing Guide.  When planning lessons for instruction, teachers should address these national standards during their teaching of social studies content to ensure a systematic and proven approach to literacy and writing development.  The Common Core Standards are research and evidenced-based, aligned with college and work expectations, rigorous, and internationally benchmarked.  For a complete listing of all Common Core Standards, please visit: http://www.corestandards.org. The specific pages for History/Social Studies 6-12 standards for Literacy and Writing have been extracted from the Common Core Standards document and placed at the end of each nine weeks Pacing Guide for each required 6-12 social studies course. 

31. Sample from 6-12 Pacing Guides

32. Sample from 6-12 Pacing Guides

33. Final Thoughts • Awareness and sense of urgency • Cross departmental “lift” • Commitment to build teacher and leader capacity • Need to align instructional materials and infrastructure • An understanding of the expected performance cliff in 2015