Core-To-College

1. Core-To-College Shoreline Community College & Shoreline School District

2. English Language Arts & Math2012-2013 • CCSS Training (Math and ELA) • Course Alignment and Comparison (Math) • New Course Development (ELA)

3. CCSS Training • English Language Arts: • Session 1: Overview of CCSS and examination of specific strands (Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening, and Language) • Session 2: SBA - comparing cognitive rigor of SBA performance tasks with HSPE and with SpringBoard embedded assessments

4. CCSS Training • Math: • Best instructional practices – • Shifts: focus, coherence, rigor • Common language • Standards of Mathematical Practice • Looked at Smarter Balanced Performance Tasks • Appropriate scaffolding

5. Course Alignment and Comparison (Math) • Compared high school and SCC courses • Syllabus and course overviews (SCC) • Curriculum guides (SSD) • Final exams for Math 80 and 99 (SCC) • Textbooks for Algebra I and II and Geometry (SSD) • Concluded that courses were fairly aligned in content and expectations

6. Professional Learning Plan for 2013-2014 • Observe in each others’ classes • SBA – administer a performance task to students and norm our grading together • SCC English 100 & SSD English 12 • SCC Math 80, Math 99 & SSD Algebra I, Algebra II

7. Critical insights • Understanding instructional shifts of the CCSS • Understanding of rigor, content, and expectations of both SSD and SCC courses

8. Surprises • Once we decided what to do and scheduled the work, the collaboration was a great success • Faculty expressed an interest in observing each other’s classes • Faculty expressed an interest in further collaboration in norming our grading • Analysis of students work • Smarter Balanced Performance Tasks

9. Thank you SCC • Brandon Rogers Special Assistant to the President for Grants and Contracts • Dutch Henry Professor of English • Rosalie TepperDirector, Math Learning Center SSD • Teri Poff Director of Teaching and Learning • Jen EtterInstructional Specialist for Language Arts • Shereen Henry Instructional Specialist for Math

10. Challenges • TIME and Scheduling • School district and community college staff have very different schedules, making it difficult to find common time for training and collaboration • Determining how to go about accomplishing our goals • Determining what we needed to do to build capacity for transcript and college placement agreements • Blending two different staff cultures to achieve common understanding • Collecting data in the future to determine effectiveness of placement agreements

11. New Course Development in English Language Arts – 12th grade • SSD and SCC faculty jointly designed a high school senior year college readiness course • Used CCSS and HEC Board Academic Descriptors for Behaviors and Dispositions to develop a common definition of what a college ready student would be able to do • Used SpringBoard and Expository Reading and Writing Course from Cal State Univ. • Designed course that is both skill focused and high interest

12. Placement Process Plan for 2013-2014 • Develop College Placement Agreements • Coursework • SBA scores