Alabama College- and Career-Ready Standards SSA Conference Perdido Beach, Alabama June 13-14, 2011

1. Alabama College- and Career-Ready Standards SSA Conference Perdido Beach, Alabama June 13-14, 2011 Sherrill W. Parris Assistant State Superintendent of Education Cynthia C. Brown Director of Curriculum and Instruction Alabama Department of Education

2. Session Goals • Increase awareness of: • The origin, purpose, and nature of College- and Career-Ready Standards (CCRS) • The timeline of CCRS implementation and textbook adoption • The impact of CCRS on various stakeholders-especially teachers and students • Some significant characteristics in the new ELA and mathematics courses of study

3. College- and Career-Ready Standards What does it mean to me?

4. It Means … • Consistent learning goals for ALL students • Students graduating from high school ready for college and career success • Development of textbooks, digital media, and other teaching materials truly aligned to the standards • A common comprehensive assessment system to include formative assessments

5. Who Were the Leaders in Common Core State Standards Initiative? • The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and the National Governor’s Association Center for Best Practices (NGA) • In collaboration with ACT, the College Board, Achieve Inc., National Association of State Boards of Education, and the State Higher Education Executive Officers

6. It Means … • This is a state-led effort to establish a single set of clear educational standards for English language arts and mathematics that states can share and voluntarily adopt. • 48 states, the District of Columbia, and two U.S. territories have participated in the development of the standards. • 44 states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Common Core State Standards.

7. It Means … CCRS: • Are aligned with college and workforce expectations. • Are clear, understandable and consistent. • Include rigorous content and application of knowledge through high-order skills. • Build upon strengths and lessons of current state standards. • Are informed by standards in other top performing countries. • Are evidenced-based.

8. It Means … I decide how to teach the standards. • Teachers have a clear set of shared goals and expectations for what knowledge and skills students must master. • Teachers, principals, superintendents, and others will decide how the standards are to be met through the creation of curriculum, lesson plans, and other instructional resources.

9. It Means … Adoption and Implementation Changes • November 2010—May 2011 • State Professional Development and Resource Development • State Collaboration with Participating States • June 2011—July 2012 • Phases of Mathematics and ELA Professional Development for Teachers and Administrators Begin (Inservice Centers & MEGA) • Alignment of Local Curricula to State Mathematics Standards • Spring 2012 • Local Mathematics Textbooks/Resources Adoption • School Year 2012—2013 • Implementation of Mathematics Course of Study • Phases of ELA Professional Development for Teachers and Administrators Continue • Alignment of Local Curricula to State ELA Standards • Spring 2013 • Local ELA Textbooks/Resources Adoption • School Year 2013—2014 • Implementation of ELA Course of Study

10. Courses of Study andTextbook Adoption Cycle

11. 2010 Alabama Course of Study: Mathematics (Mathematics Standards) Professional Development a Timeline Phase II PD Topics Analyzing the Standards Examples of Units of Study Building Capacity of Elementary/Middle/High Teachers Formative Assessments Differentiating Instruction for RtI Resources Other States Organizations Phase I PD Topics Components of the Course of Study High School Course Progressions/Pathways Standards for Mathematical Practice Literacy Standards for Grades 6-12 Domains of Study and Conceptual Categories Learning Progressions/Trajectories Addressing Content Shifts Early Entry Algebra I Phase III Designed for Continuous Support Based on LEA Needs

12. Topics for Phase I Mathematics • Components of the Course of Study • High School Course Progressions/Pathways • Standards for Mathematical Practice • Literacy Standards for Grades 6-12 • History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects • The Big Picture • Domains of Study and Conceptual Categories • Learning Progressions/Trajectories • Vertical Alignment of Content • Addressing Content Shifts • Early Entry Algebra I • Considerations/Consequences

13. Dates of Phase I Mathematics

14. 2010 Alabama Course of Study: English Language Arts(English Language Arts Standards)Professional Development Timeline

15. 2010 Alabama Course of Study: English Language Arts(English Language Arts Standards)Professional Development Timeline Phase I PD Topics Phase II PD Topics Phase III Components of the Course of Study, Analyzing the Standards Continuous Support, Based on LEA including Appendices Sample Units of Study Strands (Comparison, New Emphases) Sample Lessons/Curriculum Development Vertical Alignment/Learning Progressions Differentiated Instruction for RtI Content Movement Resources Literacy Standards, Grades 6-12 Timeline for PD and Implementation Assessment Implications for Special Education

16. New ELA Course of Study Professional Development Opportunities • Opportunities for PD during next school year for teachers and administrators will include Webinars to be announced. • PD in 2012 will include summer sessions at Regional In-Service Centers and Mega Conference.

17. It Means … • Collaboration with participating states • Professional development • Curriculum and instructional guides

18. It Means … • To a Student • A K–12 articulated learning progression based on college and career readiness • To Parents • Assurance that their children will be prepared for success in college and their chosen careers • To a Teacher/Administrator • Provision of a clear, explicit, and rigorous guide to move students along their learning progression • To Higher Education • An opportunity to develop a more clearly articulated relationship with K-12 • To Business and Industry • Assurance that an Alabama high school graduate is prepared for college and career opportunities

19. It Means ELA standards provide: • Focus on reading and writing across the curriculum—skills that colleges and employers value. • Attention to speaking, listening, and vocabulary. • Treatment of text complexity and approaches to matching with student reading skills. • Backward design of the standards from the college and workforce perspective.

20. What is a learning progression? • … a researcher-conjectured, empirically-supported description of the ordered network of constructs a student encounters through instruction (i.e. activities, tasks, tools, forms of interaction and methods of evaluation), in order to move from informal ideas, through successive refinements of representation, articulation, and reflection, towards increasingly complex concepts over time. (Confrey et al., 2009)

21. It Means Learning Progression… • Knowing what to expect about students’ preparation • More readily managing the range of preparation of students in your class • Knowing what teachers in the next grade expect of your students • Identifying clusters of related concepts at grade level • Clarity about the focus for each grade or cluster • Engaging in rich uses of classroom assessment

22. What is an example of a learning progression? Sequence of Place Value and Base Ten in Grades K–2 • Grade K • Foundation in bundling • Emphasis on the teen numbers • Grade 1 • Extends to 10, 20, 30, … • Learn to compare using place value • Grade 2 • Extend to 100 as a bundle of ten 10s • Extend to 100, 200, 300, … • Expanded notation and comparison

23. It Means … CCSS were compared to Alabama standards. • Excellent (3) • All components were present. • Good (2) • All major components were present. • Weak (1) • Some significant components were missing.

24. It Means … Mathematics English Language Arts

25. It Means … • Alabama Standard • Determine transformations, including translations, reflections, or rotations, used to alter the position of a polygon on the coordinate plane. • CCSS • Understand congruence and similarity using physical models, transparencies, or geometry software. Understand that a two-dimensional figure is similar to another if the second can be obtained from the first by a sequence of rotations, reflections, translations, and dilations; given two similar two-dimensional figures, describe a sequence that exhibits the similarity between them.

26. It Means … Teaching the Standards for Mathematical Practice 1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving. 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. 4. Model with mathematics. 5. Use appropriate tools strategically. 6. Attend to precision. 7. Look for and make use of structure. 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

27. Domains of Study It Means …

28. It Means … Teaching Conceptual Categories • Grades 9—12 • Number and Quantity • Algebra • Functions • Modeling • Geometry • Statistics and Probability

29. It Means … Mathematics Courses for Grades 9–12 • Algebra I • Geometry • Algebraic Connections • Algebra II • Algebra II with Trigonometry • Discrete Mathematics • Mathematical Investigations • Precalculus • Analytical Mathematics

30. It Means … • Additional mathematics that students should learn in order to take advanced courses is indicated by a plus sign (+). • Making mathematical models is a Standard for Mathematical Practice, and specific modeling standards appear throughout the high school standards indicated by an asterisk (*). • Additional mathematics content that is specific to Alabama was added by the task force and is noted with a symbol of the state ( ).

31. It Means … English Language Arts Strands

32. It Means … Significant Differences 1. Literacy Standards in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects Example: Identify key steps in a text’s description of a process related to history/social studies (e.g., how a bill becomes law, how interest rates are raised or lowered).

33. It Means … Significant Differences (cont.) 2. Changes the balance between literature and informational text standards 3. Greater specificity

34. It Means … • Alabama 2007 COS • Utilize resource material for supporting evidence in composition. • CCSS • Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and providing basic bibliographic information for sources.

35. Questions

36. Curriculum and Instruction(334) 242-8059 Link to draft ELA & Mathematics Course of Study http://www.alsde.edu/html/sections/documents.asp?section=54&sort=21&footer=sections Mrs. Sherrill W. Parris Assistant State Superintendent of Education sparris@alsde.edu Mrs. Cynthia C. Brown Director of Curriculum and Instruction cbrown@alsde.edu