Core Curriculum for College and Career Readiness Task Force Literacy Task Force

1. Core Curriculum for College and Career ReadinessTask ForceLiteracy Task Force January 11, 2011 Staff Leads: Jeannie Johnson, Sarah Breed, Phil Tucher, Elizabeth Macias, Mary Pippitt, Tina Tranzor

2. Alignment with District Vision OUSD MISSION/VISION All students will graduate. As a result, they are caring, competent, and critical thinkers, fully-informed, engaged, and contributing citizens, and prepared to succeed in college and career. OUSD GOAL To create a FULL SERVICE COMMUNITY DISTRICT that serves the whole child, eliminates inequity, and provides each child with an excellent teacher every day. PRIORITIES Safe, Healthy, and Supportive Schools High Quality Effective Instruction College and Career Readiness Literacy CORE CURRICULUM AND LITERACY TASK FORCE WORK Common Core Curriculum and a Literacy Framework will guide teachers’ instruction so that students graduate college and career ready.

3. Norms Within this meeting: • Assume positive intent • Monitor your airtime • Speak your truth about the topic at hand • Listen across difference

4. Welcome • Recap of November meeting • Table Groups- Introduce yourselves to one another. • Name, role, one hope/dream you have for all OUSD students

5. November Recap • What is College and Career Readiness? • Gingerbread activity: head, hands, heart, feet • Board Results Policies • Why is this work compelling and urgent? • “a-g” data • What is the definition of “curriculum”? • A coherent set of learning experiences that develops in students particular knowledge, skills, dispositions and capacities; • The course of study (informed by standards, and dependent on instructional practice) that guide teachers as they design, teach, and assess instruction for students.

6. Dropout/Pushout Numbers for 2008/09 OUSD HS Enrollment (including charters) = 12,689

7. Why is this work compelling and urgent?

8. Why is this work compelling and urgent? OUSD and California CST Proficiency data for math and ELA Visualization-Motion charts available on OUSD Website: At the bottom, “Latest CST Results Show OUSD Test Scores Continue to Rise”

9. Guiding Principles for OUSD Core Curriculum • Learning • Teaching • Assessment • Equity • Technology • Literacy Across Content Areas

10. Guiding Principles for OUSD Core Curriculum Small group: • 10 min-Read and discuss what this principle means to you • 15 min- Make connections between the outcomes surfaced at the last meeting and the guiding principle. Which outcomes are aligned to this guiding principle? Chart. • 10 min-Whole group share out

11. Think-Write-Pair-Share • 10 min- What outcomes are not present in these guiding principles? What additional feedback would you like to provide?

12. Dinner

13. Breakout Groups • Whole Group will be splitting into 2 to focus on ELA and Literacy or Math • Each group will review common core state standard in their content area of focus

14. Literacy Framework • Frames the core curriculum • Informs the “How” of teaching ELA curriculum • Based on current research on how children learn to read • and write • Consideration and awareness of our students’ achievement • gains and gaps • Mindful of students who acquire skills easily and those who • struggle to do so

15. Elements of OUSD Literacy Framework • Characteristics of High Quality Instruction • Programs and Materials • Assessment • Instructional Time • Intervention • Classroom Instructional and Management Practices

16. Elements of OUSD Literacy Framework ~ Interaction Read, React, Discuss, Take Notes • In pairs you will be given a short section of text from the literacy framework. • Silently, Readyour section • React to what you have read. • Discussthis section with your partner. • As you discuss, take notes that you will share with the whole group.

17. ELA COMMON CORE STANDARDS • National Set of expectations for student knowledge and skills that high school students need to master to succeed in college and career. • Designed by Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Governors Association for Best Practices • Adopted by CA SBE August 2, 2010

18. Organization of Common Core Standards • Tab 1- Guidelines for English Learners and Students with Disabilities • Tab 2- Table of Contents and Intro • Tab 3- ELA and Literacy (k-5) • Tab 4- ELA (6-12) • Tab 5- Literacy in History, Science, Tech (6-12) • Tab 6- Appendix (Text Complexity, Writing, Speaking and Listening, Language) • Tab 7- Text Exemplars and Sample Performance Tasks

19. ELA College and Career Readiness Anchors Standards • Read, React, Discuss, Take Notes In fours you will be given a short section of text from the College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for ELA grades 6-12. CCRS- Reading pg. 35 CCRS- Writing pg. 41 CCRS- Speaking/Listening pg. 48 CCRS- Language pg.51 • Silently, Readyour Standard. • React to what you have read. • Discussthis section with your group.

20. ELA- Guiding Question for Discussion • Discussthe CCR Standard with your group: What information or guidelines are missing from our Literacy Framework if we are leading Oakland students to master this College Readiness Standard?

21. Give One, Get One • With a partner, in two of the boxes, record 2 key ideas from your break-out session. • Compare notes with 2 task force members who were NOT in your break-out session. • Hear a couple of key ideas from their presentation and discussion and record in an empty box. [GET ONE] • Share a couple of key ideas from yours.[GIVE ONE] • What questions do you have?

22. A core curriculum is … A coherent set of learning experiences that develops in students particular knowledge, skills, dispositions, and capacities The course of study (informed by standards, and dependent on instructional practice) that guide teachers as they design, teach, and assess instruction for students What is a Core Curriculum?

23. Components: Guiding Principles Standards (with essential and focus standards) Scope & Sequence Curricular Guide (with instructional materials and assessment plan) Instructional tools & strategies Assessment guide with samples Sample grade-level units Draft: 12/2010 What is a Core Curriculum?

24. Task Force- Meeting Dates • November 9 • January 11 • March 8 • May 10

25. Thank for your attendance and contributions See you on March 8th