Hitting the Common Core Target

1. Hitting the Common Core Target Jan Leonard, Gail Owen, and Scott Estes

2. Matthew Emmons

3. It truly is a NEW DAY in education! • Proceed with CAUTION! • Main focus: • What do kids really need… • to know to become good employees? • to make a contribution in society? • to be successful in their career choice?

4. Setting the Foundation • Kids are going to be required to think and perform as they never have before. • 1. Higher level thinking skills • 2. Inductive and deductive reasoning • Writing for multiple purposes • Standards alignment and valid assessment • Demonstration of understanding

5. Setting the Foundation Kids are going to be required to think and perform as they never have before. 6. Perform procedures 7. Make conjectures, analyze, generalize, and prove 8. Solve non-routine problems and/or significant connection

6. Setting the Foundation • English Language Arts • Reading • - Informational text • - Complex text • - “Close Reading” strategies • - Vocabulary

7. Setting the Foundation • English Language Arts • Writing • - Writing for multiple purposes • - Writing across the curriculum • - Writing for different audiences • - Constructing coherent informed argument

8. Setting the Foundation • English Language Arts • Students who are college and career can… • demonstrate independence • build strong content knowledge • respond to the varying demands of audience, task, purpose, and discipline

9. Setting the Foundation • English Language Arts • Students who are college and career can… • comprehend as well as critique • value evidence • use technology and digital media strategically and capably

10. Setting the Foundation • English Language Arts • Students who are college and career can… • come to understand other perspectives and cultures

11. Setting the Foundation • Mathematics • Mathematical Understanding • - Justifying that a math statement is true • - Mathematical understanding and procedural skills equally important • - Blend themes in mathematics

12. Setting the Foundation Mathematics

13. See the Need Quick think! What are THREE reasons this change will be good for our students and their futures?

14. Implementation Plans • Year One • Curriculum development • - mapping • - matching • - identifying gaps with respect to content knowledge • - beginning to teach the new standards

15. Implementation Plans • Year One • Examination of and initial enhancement of rigor levels in the classroom • - identify/begin to implement professional development based on needs • Evaluation of resources, including technology

16. Implementation Plans • Year One • Overview presentation about the Common Core Standards to the Board of Education • Initial communication to parents/families

17. Implementation Plans • Year Two • Continued enhancement of instructional rigor with professional development where necessary • Teaching the new standards • Review of classroom assessment practices with a goal to move towards more application-based performance assessments

18. Implementation Plans • Year Two • Integration of technology as it relates to the Common Core Standards • Purchasing of resources • Communication at a deeper level with parents and families • Consideration of report card modifications

19. Implementation Plans • Year Three • Full implementation • - aligned, operational curriculum • - enhanced instructional rigor • - ongoing purchases of resources • - use of technology to support standards • - standards-based report cards

20. Matrix of Sustainable Change Professional Learning Associates

21. One District’s Implementation Model • Year One • In East Peoria District 86 – The Vision Align the ELA and Math curricula with the Common Core Standards Engage the other feeder districts and the high school in a multi-district approach

22. The Action Plan • Recruit an instructional leadership team • Set the foundation of the Common Core with the staff • Communicate with the other superintendents and recruit implementation teams • Schedule once a month workdays with the implementation teams for the entire school year

23. Tasks in the Action Plan • Become familiar with the Common Core • Develop and use common language where appropriate • Map the skills column of a consensus curriculum map • Include the Common Core Standards in the skills column

24. An Example in ELA

25. An Example in Math

26. The Skills • How to create a quality curriculum map • How to use a web-based system to enter information into the maps • How to decipher the Common Core Standards

27. Resources for Mapping • Implementation teams to map • Substitutes for release time • Curriculum mapping software • Common Core Standards • Kentucky Department of Education’s Deconstructed Standards

28. The Incentive • Provide an operational curriculum that will assist students to be on their way to achieving the title of, “College and Career Ready.”

29. Next Steps • District completion of all three columns in the curriculum maps • Continue with the elements in the implementation plan: • Implementation of the aligned curriculum • Instructional Rigor • Assessment Practices • Acquiring Resources • Communication • Technology Integration

30. Contact Information Jan Leonard Jan_leonard@yahoo.com cc-tech.wikispaces.com Gail Owen gowen@roe53.net www.mid-illini.org Scott Estes EstesS@epd86.org http://teacherweb.com/IL/EastPeoriaCentralJuniorHighSchool/MrEstes/apt1.aspx