Common Core Common Concerns Facilitator: Bob Cornacchioli Visual Prompts to Promote Discussion Organization: DERO Technical Services Bob CornacchioliDERO Technical Services bcornacchioli@gmail.com get2bobc@gmail.com www.derotechnical.com April 17-18, 2013
CEO - DERO Technical ServicesEvangelist/Process Lead- Level DataMarketing/ - ParkBench Software • Trainer • Director of Technology and Media Services – Shrewsbury Public Schools (16 yrs)PowerSchool Administrator ( 6 yrs) Bob Cornacchioli
CURRICULUM/ADMIN & TECHNICAL DRAW A LINE IN THE SAND Collaborate and learn the constraints/desires
When did this movement start? When: 2009 Where: Chicago Who: Governor's and State Superintendents For more information: commonstandards@ccsso.org In theory – excellent Making it happen???
When did your state adopted Common Core? States had a 90% compliance adoption policy. Common Core: http://www.corestandards.org/in-the-states Preparing America’s Students for College and Career.
District Struggle with… Communications to Stakeholders Curriculum Review/Changes New and Old Assessments Instructional Practices Grading Practices The focus has shifted from curriculum-assessments to and the number of on standard Report Cards www.psugoh.org
Illinois Standards Task Force - 5 Steps to Success Kathy Dinger, Former Director of Curriculum and Instruction, Libertyville D70, Libertyville, Illinois
Ohio | Department of Education
Does Your State have a CC Roadmap? California
DESE of MA – 124 pgs of EASY READING! MA DESE is a “LOCAL CONTROL” state, NO MANDATE . WHAT IS NEW JERSEY DOING??
What is your state saying/doing?
Let’s Change to Standards… At every crossway on the road that leads to the future each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past - Maeterlinck
Change requires continual checking of your stakeholders temperature! Parents Teachers Tech Team
GOOGLE THE RESISTANCE MOVEMENT • THIS WILL HELP PLAN FOR THE QUESTIONS TO COME: • From Parent • From Teachers • From Students • From School Board Members 132,000 + 85,000 --
SAMPLE May 3,2013 – Standards Finalized-uploaded to Google Docs May 8,2013 – Onsite development of preK-5 SBRC May 30, 2013 Onsite training of Vanguard Teachers Sept 14, 2013 – Modifications to SBRC and WIDA
Ken O’Connor – aka The Grading Doctor! Have you addressed the proper techniques in determining a standards based grade?Ken’s Repair Kit for Grading would be excellent PD or Faculty Meeting discussions. PowerTeacher Gradebook has been designed with these principles. Standardized Curriculum Standardized Grading Practices
15 FIXES for BROKEN GRADES If any of your teachers: They’d benefit from discussing this book! include student behavior in grades reduce marks for "work" submitted late give points for extra credit or use bonus points consider attendance in grade determination assign grades by comparing students to each other rely on evidence from poor-quality assessments rely simply on averages use the zero for missing evidence or punishment summarize evidence accumulated over time leave students out of the grading process
GRADING PRACTICES Fix #14 – Tendency vs Average The most recent score for all is a 4! If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving may not be for you! Tendency Trends Average Mastery
Setting Expectations UNWRAPPING UNWRAPPING Since CC didn’t tell us what to use, what will your district be using? What does a 4 or a C really mean and how has your district insured this to happen? All Teachers at a Grade Level in your SCHOOL! All Teachers at a Grade Level in your DISTRICT! Placement – Retention – Special Needs – Gifted Common Core doesn’t recommend performance indicators.
Common Core Common Concerns • Has your DOE told you what… • standards to use? • scale to use on assessments? • to report to parents? • grades to report? NOPE NOPE NOPE MAYBE
SOME OR ALL of these ELA Standards
Collaborative Cherry Picking √ √ √ √ √
C BEST PRACTICES: CULLING STANDARDS 7. Choose standards that lend themselves to being …..easily associated to an assignment- not all do! Less is More! In the Gradebook & on the Report Card Grade Level teachers review all available standards (CC,SS,&LS) and CHERRY PICK Consider CC Sub-Category headers Discuss/Decide which will be on the report card and which will only be in the gradebook Provide ample time for UNWRAPPING! Wordsmith any standard over 65/70/75 characters
Should Common Core Standards Impact Scheduling? How many courses are you planning to use for English Language Arts? Reading – Writing – Speaking & Listening - Language
Download Common Core ID 65502
PowerSource Common Core StandardsID 7337 Identifiers- Your Courses, Your Conversion Scales
Consider a user friendly schema for standard identifiers Removing a,b,c will save time- import template and report cards
Other “Standards” Sites/CDE Are we using those that you created last year? What about Specials?
What’s Next… Common Core Standards Common Assessments
Common Assessment 2014-2015 • RACE to the TOP - $360 Million to create national common assessments that will replace state testing. • 50% of the state are aligned with each organization with National Online Exams (ELA/MATH) coming soon! • 3 other organizations received $$$$ to create assessments • MICHIGAN IS A Smarter Balanced State
What will online – national assessments mean for you? • Devices and School Surveys • Organizations and User Accounts • Batch Imports Does your state have it’s own Tech ReadinessTool?
Compare your existing standards to Common Core
Recommended Next Steps Common Core are guidelines and should be partnered with your curriculum Consider attending Pearson’s CommonCore Summit @ PSU’s Reflect on today and share with other administrators Draft an Implementation Plan including communication to all stakeholders, professional development & budget Decide to what extent you will involve staff? Cherry Pick your ELA/Math Standards. Create draft of the SBRC before summer.
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