2013-2014 ELA Kick-Off Meeting What you need:

1. 2013-2014 ELA Kick-Off Meeting • What you need: • ELA Sample Plan for the Year (new COMPLETE copies just arrived…) • ELA Resource Pages (by sign in sheet)

2. WHAT are we doing? • Full implementation of CCSS for ELA and Math • Louisiana’s hybrid version of PARCC assessment for standardized testing • SLT’s for all subjects (that can be used to “pull up” your student performance score for VAM)

3. HOW to Use Backward Design in CCSS Instructional Planning • Step 1: Identify target CCSS standards. • Referenced in OPSB /LDOE Unit Plans (L.6.2, RI.6.4) • Found in the LDOE Toolbox • Available at corestandards.org • RL – Reading Literature • RI – Reading Informational Text • W – Writing • SL – Speaking and Listening • L – Language

4. HOW to Use Backward Design in CCSS Instructional Planning • Step 2. Determine acceptable levels of evidence that support mastery of standards. • Referenced in Unit Plans and ELA resource pages (writing tasks) • LDOE End-of-Year Assessment Guidance • LDOE Writing Rubrics for ELA 4-8 • PARCC Sample Items (extra for 14-15) • PARCC Evidence Tables

5. HOW to Use Backward Design in CCSS Instructional Planning • Step 3. Design activities that will make desired results happen. • Referenced in OPSB Unit Plans (Unit Focus + Sample Research) • Use the Text Complexity Model to pick your own anchor texts and related texts to create your own integrated unit plans. • Create lesson plans with daily activities that use formative assessments to track progress toward writing tasks

6. WHERE can I find more ELA resources? • LDOE Toolbox • Literacy Design Collaborative • Free CCSS ELA 6-12 eBook (membership required – ask Sherry Burroughs) • OPSB Resource Pages • Anthology Alignment Project

7. WHERE can I find more ELA resources? Model Content Frameworks http://parcconline.org/parcc-model-content-frameworks Learning Progression Tools http://learningprogression.tctl.org/ Essay Tagger http://www.essaytagger.com/ Assessment guides on the LDE site http://www.doe.state.la.us/topics/assessment_guides_4_8.html Sample writing prompts with rubrics on LDE site (has field tested items from Spring 2012) http://www.doe.state.la.us/topics/trans_assessments.html

8. WHEN do I need to start? • Researching, planning and developing year-long plans, units, etc. - NOW! • Determining where my students are academically – when benchmark tests are available and you are ready. • Creating writing prompts and other assessments that are modeled after the new standardized tests – between Christmas and the scheduled testing dates.

9. Academic Language • How many ways can you word a prompt? • Justify > Explain > Defend… • What are the different meanings for prompts between subjects? • ELA - Justify your response with evidence from text… • Math – Justify your work for this problem… • What does academic language mean for ELA?

10. Model Content Framework for ELA

11. What Are the Shifts at the Heart of PARCC Design (and the Standards)? Shifts in PARCC • Complexity: Regular practice with complex text and its academic language. • Evidence: Reading and writing grounded in evidencefrom text, literary and informational. • Knowledge: Building knowledge through content rich nonfiction. Shifts in ELA/Literacy CCSS • Balancing informational & literary text • Knowledge of disciplines • Staircase of complexity • Text-based answers • Writing from sources • Academic Vocabulary

12. PARCC ELA/Literary Assessment Shifts • Two standards are always included in PARCC assessment items whether: • Reading or writing items • Selected- response or constructed-responseitems • Any of four components of PARCC • READING STANDARD 1: use of evidence • READING STANDARD 10: complex texts

13. PARCC’s Core Commitments to ELA/Literacy Assessment Quality Texts Worth Reading: The assessments will use authentic texts worthy of study instead of artificially produced or commissioned passages.  Questions Worth Answering:Sequences of questions that draw students into deeper encounters with texts will be the norm (as in an excellent classroom), rather than sets of random questions of varying quality. Better Standards Demand Better Questions:Instead of reusing existing items, PARCC will develop custom items to the Standards. Fidelity to the Standards (now in Teachers’ hands): PARCC evidences are rooted in the language of the Standards so that expectations remain the same in both instructional and assessment settings.

14. More Advice and Resources… • Prepare for the transitional LEAP, iLEAP, writing prompt….writing grounded in textual evidence • Examine the CCSS and vertical alignment • Shift the classroom instruction and assessments to integrate CC and PARCC assessments • Writing Fix

15. WHY does this matter? • We must give our students all the tools they need to show that they can do this work. • If the students succeed, we succeed…

17. CCSS & PARCC….we are at the tip of the iceberg

18. Questions? This presentation was adapted from a presentation presented by: Lee Ann Wall & Rebecca Freelandemail: lwall@acadia.k12.la.usrfreeland@mpsb.usLouisiana Educator Leader Cadre (ELC) Members