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ACTE State Leaders Call: Common Core State Standards. Special Guests. Sandra Bradshaw – ACTE Educator in Residence; Fulltime FACS/CTE Jr. High Teacher, Clinton, UT KaiLonnie Dunsmore – Associate Director, National Center for Literacy Education. ACTE Common Core Activity to Date.
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Special Guests Sandra Bradshaw– ACTE Educator in Residence; Fulltime FACS/CTE Jr. High Teacher, Clinton, UT KaiLonnie Dunsmore– Associate Director, National Center for Literacy Education
ACTE Common Core Activity to Date • Signed on as CCSS Endorsing Partner in June 2009 • Techniques issue devoted to Common Core • Common Core web page • Two Common Core webinars with America’s Promise (Missouri and Oregon) • Common Core sessions at VISION and NPS
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Common Core VISION Sessions • Thursday, Dec. 5, 1:00-2:30 – Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers Briefing • Saturday, Dec. 7, 8:30-10:00 – Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Briefing • Friday, Dec. 6, 2:45-4:15 – Oregon’s Trail: Integrating CTE Into the Common Core • Friday, December 6, 10-11:30 – 90 minutes with the Common Core Standards for Literacy in Technical Subjects – Voices from the Field • Saturday, Dec. 7, 8:30- 10:00 – Practical Approaches for the CCSS for Literacy in Technical Subjects
New CTE Common Core Resources Partners • Association for Career and Technical Education • Nat. Assn. of State Directors of CTE Consortium • Student Achievement Partners College Board hosted meeting: • January 29-30 in New York City “Deep Introduction to the Common Core State Standards for CTE teachers”
Association for Career and Technical Education Consortium for School Networking National Council for the Social Studies National Council of Teachers of English National Council of Teachers of Mathematics National Science Teachers Association
Instructional Shifts in CCSS – ELA Standards in multiple disciplines Building Knowledge through Informational Text (“content rich”) Reading, Writing, Speaking draws from evidence in text (argumentation) Learning Disciplinary knowledge through engagement with texts rich in the complexity of content that uses academic vocabulary (language of the discipline)
Sustained improvement in literacy teaching and learning occurs when literacy is a shared responsibility, professional learning is rooted in collaboration and inquiry, and organizational conditions sustain ongoing learning for everyone.
Teachers’ Workday in the United States 93% Percentage of the work day US teachers spend in isolation from their colleagues Source: Met Life Survey of the American Teacher (2009)
Average Hours of Professional Learning Education Market Research, February 2010.
Defining the Job: U.S. Teachers Teach Source: OECD, Education at a Glance (2007)
NCLE National Survey of Collaborative Professional Learning Opportunities Survey Methodology • National Sample: 2,400+ respondents mirroring the US national educator profile • NCLE Stakeholder Sample: additional 8,600+ respondents with results validating the national stratified sample
“Routine” collaboration is correlated with higher levels of trust and faster spreadof effective practices.
Collaborative inquiry needs systemic support, a generous amount of which is available through NCLE and related networks.
How NCLE helps schools build capacity for literacy learning • Free resources and links about literacy teaching and learning in all subjects from 30 leading national orgs • Case studies, vignettes, and portraits of innovative team practices. • An online community with flexible posting rules so that useful resources can be shared across schools • Support for deepening and making more purposeful team collaboration and inquiry. • Direct advice about how to take stock of your team’s progress and select an inquiry question for sustained focus.
Learning Network Secondary ELL & Writing C-3 Implementation Teams Family/School Partnerships COPs Formative Assessment Teams
Contact Information Stephen DeWitt sdewitt@acteonline.org Sandra Bradshaw Sandra.brads39s@gmail.com KaiLonnie Dunsmore kdunsmore@ncte.org