Common Core State Standards

1. Common Core State Standards April 18, 2013 Board of Education

2. Why CCSS?

3. Patient Problem Solving • Laura’s video 1.3o

4. Challenging Tasks

5. 5th Grade Student Work Sample

6. 5th Grade Student Work Sample

7. Missouri Learning Standards • Define knowledge and skills students need to succeed in college and other post-secondary training and careers • Grade-Level Expectations are the current standards for: • English Language Arts • Math • Social Studies • Science • Physical Education/ Health • Fine Arts ( Music, Theater, Visual Arts) • Guidance and Counseling

8. CCSS Development • State led initiative • National Governor’s Association (NGA) • Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSS) • Educators, researchers, and parents from across the country, including Missouri, developed the standards • The CCSS went through two rounds of revision based of feedback from teachers including those in Missouri • In 2010, the Common Core State Standards were adopted by the Missouri State School Board to replace the ELA and Math Grade-Level Expectations

9. How the Demand for Skills Has ChangedEconomy-wide measures of routine and non-routine task input (U.S.)

10. CCSS Shifts • Math • Balanced Emphasis of Practice and Understanding • Procedural Fluency • Deep Conceptual Understanding • Applications and Modeling • Focus and Coherence • English Language Arts • Increase in Nonfiction Texts and Content Area Literacy • Increase Writing from Sources • Focus on Text-based Answers • Increase Text Complexity

11. ELA Standards Comparison 6th Grade Level Expectation 6th Grade CCSS Compare and contrast the experience of reading a story, drama, or poem to listening to or viewing an audio, video, or live version of the text, including contrasting what they “see” and “hear” when reading the text to what they perceive when they listen or watch Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres (e.g., stories and poems; historical novels and fantasy stories) in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics • Compare, contrast and analyze connections: • a. text to text (information and relationships in various fiction and non-fiction works) • *b. text to self (text ideas and own experiences) • *c. text to world (text ideas and the world by identifying how literature reflects a culture and historic time frame)

12. Math Comparison 3rd grade GLE 2nd grade CCSS Partition circles and rectangles into two and four equal shares, describe the shares using the words halves, fourths, and quarters • Represents halves, thirds, and fourths 2nd Grade Singapore Math at Wentzville • Currently doing 3rd grade CCSS work • Content shifts will be minimal in Wentzville • Singapore math incorporates many Standards of Mathematical Practices • Additional Math practices will be incorporated • Student Learning Conversations • Patient Problem Solving

13. Work in Wentzville

14. Preparation • Principals • Received training in the Summer of 2012 on ELA • Received training during the 2012-2013 school year for Math • Receiving training in the Summer of 2013 on Math • Curriculum Teams • Received training in the Summer of 2012 on ELA • Received training during the 2012-2013 school year for Math • Receiving training in the Summer of 2013 on Math • Revising ELA curriculum 2012-2013 • Revising Math curriculum 2013-2014

15. Preparation • Teacher Leaders • CCSS Curriculum Team received 3 hours of training every other month • Training was to prepare the leaders to train their teachers • Teachers • Training conducted by Leadership team and principals during professional development time • Using performance tasks with students • ELA and Math Learning Labs have focused on teacher implementing CCSS practices

16. CCSS and Assessment • Assessments will be aligned to the Common Core State Standards (Core Academic Standards) in 2015 • Performance accounts for 70 of 140 points in the MSIP 5 Accreditation • Math and English Language Arts account for 42 of the 70 points

17. Questions?