Ilene W. Straus, Ed.D . Vice President California State Board of Education

1. Understanding the Common Core State Standards – Implications for District and School PracticesCalifornia Community FoundationMarch 11, 2013 Ilene W. Straus, Ed.D. Vice President California State Board of Education State Board of Education

2. History of the Common Core Standards • Created by National Governors’ Association & Council of Chief State School Officers • Adopted by 45 states and D.C. in 2009-10 • Federal funding - two state assessment development consortia ($350 million) • PARCC Partnership for Assessment for Readiness for College and Careers • SBAC Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium

3. Goals of theCommon Core Standards • Fewer • Higher • Deeper

4. Developed by teachers, school administrators, postsecondary educators, and content experts, • the CCSS define the knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in entry-level credit-bearing college courses and in workforce training programs State Board of Education

5. Key Aspects of the CCSS • Reading increasingly complex texts closely • Communicating effectively across multiple media and content areas • Using evidence; interpreting with justification • Engaging in inquiry and research • Engaging in mathematical practices that use mathematical reasoning in application • Using mathematical skills across content areas and contexts

6. The shifts build toward College and Career Readiness for All Students State Board of Education

7. Common Core Standards – ELA Reading Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

8. Key Shifts in Common Core • Complexity: Regular practice with complex text and its academic language • Evidence: Reading, writing, speaking and listening grounded in evidencefrom text, literary and informational • Knowledge: Building knowledge through content rich nonfiction State Board of Education

9. Key Shift 1: Complexity • Standards include a staircase of increasing text complexity from elementary through high school (what students can read, in terms of complexity is greatest predictor of success in college) • Standards reward careful, close reading rather than racing through texts • Standards focus on the words that matter most—not obscure vocabulary but the academic language that pervades complex texts

10. Key Shift 2: Evidence • Focus on studentsrigorously citing evidence from texts to support claims/inferences • Require writing to sources rather than writing to de-contextualized expository prompts • Require purposeful academic talk

11. Key Shift 3: Knowledge • CCSS does not just pertain to ELA but literacy across the disciplines of science, social studies, and technical subjects too • Standards require certain percentages of literature and informational texts (modeled on NAEP) • Standards call for regular short research projects

12. Texts Worth Reading and Questions Worth Answering

13. Common Core Standards – Math • Students should be able to: • “understand,”“describe,”“explain,”“justify,”“prove,”“derive,”“assess,”“illustrate,” and “analyze.” • They need to be able to: • “model,”“construct,”“compare,”“investigate,”“build,”“interpret,”“estimate,”“summarize,”“represent,”“evaluate,” • Students should be able to “extend,” and “apply” their learning to a wide range of real world problems • including uses in science, engineering and technology problems

14. Model Course Pathways for Mathematics Courses in higher level mathematics: Precalculus, Calculus (upon completion of Precalculus), Advanced Statistics, Discrete Mathematics, Advanced Quantitative Reasoning, or other courses to be designed at a later date, such as additional career technical courses. Algebra II Mathematics III Mathematics II Geometry Mathematics I Algebra I Pathway A Traditional in U.S. Pathway B International Integrated approach (typical outside of U.S.) .

15. Implications • Professional development content and delivery – teachers and leaders • Instructional supports and materials alignment • Implementation costs and technology infrastructure • Assessment of learning • Alignment with higher education • Communication to all stakeholders State Board of Education

16. Common Core State Standards Preparing all of our students to be College and Career Ready State Board of Education