Curriculum Council September 18, 2013

1. Curriculum CouncilSeptember 18, 2013 The mission of the School Improvement Department is to provide Common Core aligned professional development and instructional training, so together, with our component districts, we can prepare every student across all classrooms to be college and career ready in the 21st century.

2. Agenda • 8:30 – 9:00 Meet and Greet • 9:00 – 9:15 Introductions • 9:15 – 11:30 School Improvement Updates • 11:30 – 12:15 Lunch • 12:15-1:45 Regional Best Practice • 1:45-2:00 Break • 2:00-3:00 Training and Work Groups Survey- Please assist by providing feedback so we can strengthen our support to your schools.

3. Setting the Vision

4. How will we get there?

6. Where is your staff?

7. SCDN Updates • ELL • Read and identify a power sentence (tan document) • Intentional teaching • Systematic implementation • UDL • DS Focus • Ken Slentz • Data Dashboard • Student Growth

8. ELL • Read and identify a power sentence (tan document) • Intentional teaching • Systematic implementation • Contact School Improvement for Training

9. Universal Design Old School Retrofit Solution CFU – What are other examples of UD? Who can use them?

10. Universal Design for LearningCAST (Center for Applied Special Technology, 1984) www.cast.org • Assumptions: • Diversity is the norm (Universal Variability) • It’s not the students who are “broken” - it’s the curriculum http://www.cast.org/library/video/udl_at_a_glance/ Guiding Questions What are the main tenets of UDL? What connections do you see to Common Core?

11. State Growth Measures- See video

12. Visible Communication

13. School Improvement Newsletter

14. Data

15. School Improvement Updates • Math (Kelly) • ELA (Molly) • eModules (Chris)

16. Math News • Modules Available K-5 • Kindergarten: 1, 2, 3, and 5 • 1st grade: 1, 2, and 3 • 2nd grade: 1, 2 , 3, and 4 • 3rd grade: 1, 2 ,3 and 5 • 4th grade: 1, 2, 3 • 5th grade: 1, 2, 3 • These grades are in great shape!

17. Math Modules Grades 6-9 • 6th grade – Module 1 • 7th grade – Module 1 • 8th grade – Module 1 • 9th grade – Module 1 and Module 2 • Teachers are concerned!

18. Printing • Jossey-Bass – Wiley Publishing

19. EngageNY updates http://www.engageny.org/resource/curriculum-module-updates

20. EngageNY Videos for In-House Professional Development • Place Value (Number Disks with Place Value Charts) • Fractions (Number Lines and Area Models) • Addition and Subtraction (with Ten-Frames) • Multiplication (with Array/Area Models and Rekenreks) • Word problems (with tape diagrams) • Numbers Through Ten (Number Path, Number Towers, Number Bonds)

21. Upcoming Math Trainings

22. ELA News- Save the date!Monday, November 25, 2013

23. ELA News: See the newsletter • A complete list of module updates is available at the following link:http://www.engageny.org/resource/curriculum-module-updates • Highlights include: • Materials for pre-kindergarten include listening and learning domain materials. The Teacher Guide for Classic Tales contains the information needed to teach the ten stories included in the domain, over the course of the school year. Unlike most domains in CKLA Preschool, the lessons for Classic Tales are not presented consecutively, but are interspersed throughout the school year. Each of the ten tales requires two days of instruction. The first day requires approximately twenty-five minutes of instruction, conducted by the teacher in either a whole-group setting or during learning center time. The second day of instruction for each tale requires between thirty-five and forty-five minutes of instruction, conducted in whole-group and small-group settings, as well as during learning center time.  http://www.engageny.org/resource/prekindergarten-ela-classic-tales-domain • K,1, 2 now have more listening and learning domains. Kindergarten and grade 1 are complete and grade 2 is only missing Domain 9. The next Skills Strand Units are complete for kindergarten and grade 1 and 2 now have units 1 - 4.  • Grades 3, 4, 5 have modules 1, 2A, 3A and 4. Module 1 has a new, more professional look.All documents are available in PDF. You can print combined documents or select documents (overview, table of contents, assessments, performance tasks, recommended texts). • Grade 6 has significant updates to Unit 2 of Module 1. Unit 2 has been revised to replace myths from “D’Aulaires Book of Greek Myths” with myths from the public domain. Schools that do not have class sets of “D’Aulaires” are advised to reprint Unit 2 in its entirety. The purpose and structure of Unit 2 remain the same in both the original and updated versions. • Grade 6, 7 and 8 - All short informational texts are now included as supporting materials in the lessons. Usability, particularly related to supporting materials, has been improved. Supporting materials for each lesson are named consistently and included in the order used in the lesson. Additionally, the quantity needed/purpose for each supporting material has been clarified (e.g. “one per student” or “one to display” or “for teacher reference”). • Grade 9 has module 1! In this module, students will read, discuss, and analyze contemporary and classic texts, focusing on how complex characters develop through interactions with one another and how authors structure text to accomplish that development. There will be a strong emphasis on reading closely and responding to text dependent questions, annotating text, and developing academic vocabulary in context. http://www.engageny.org/resource/grade-9-ela-module-1 • Grade 10, 11 and 12 do not have new materials at this time. They each have units available to support Close Reading, Evidence Based Claims and Researching to Deepen Understanding.

24. Updates and more…

25. 3-8 Modules New Look!

26. Genesee Valley Library Media Center Support

30. Thank YouFor Leading and Learning http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFnMTHhKdkw

31. 2:00-3:00- Meeting Locations Work Groups PARCC-Julie’s Office ELA Cohort- Math Cohort- Science- Social Studies- Trainings eDoctrina- Common Core and SWD-