Colorado Academic Standards and Curriculum Samples for Higher Education Leaders

1. Colorado Academic Standards and Curriculum Samplesfor Higher Education Leaders September 9, 2013 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm Featured Presenters: Brian Sevier, Standards Project Director, CDE Jenny Arzberger, Educator Preparation Project Manager, DHE

2. STATE OF COLORADO Colorado Department of Higher Education Colorado Department of Education CDE / DHE Collaborative Webinar Series For up to date information including agendas, login information, and recorded webinars, locate our website, like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.

3. WELCOME from today’s featured presenters… Brian Sevier, Standards Project Director Jenny Arzberger, Educator Preparation Project Manager 3

4. The Colorado Academic Standards and Colorado’s District Sample Curriculum ProjectDr. Brian SevierStandards Project Director The Colorado Academic Standards and the Common Core State Standards http://www.cde.state.co.us/standardsandinstruction/index.asp

5. Colorado’s Standards:Keys to Transformation • Fewer Expectations with Greater Depth • Concepts and Skills • Ending the “culture of coverage” • Designed with the End in Mind • Backward design • P-13 vertical progression • Require Application of Knowledge • 21stcentury skills • Mastery: Application and transfer • Focus on “All students, All standards” • 10 content areas + Academic language

6. Collaboration “Working Together, Learning Together” Information Literacy “Untangling the Web” Critical Thinking “Think Deep, Think Different” Self Direction “Own Your Learning” Invention “Creating Solutions” 21st Century Skills Critical Thinking Invention Self Direction Information Literacy Collaboration

8. Colorado’s Approach to the Common Core in ELA and Math • Use the Colorado Academic Standards (CAS) template • Align essential components of CAS • 21st century skills (SB 212) • Postsecondary and workforce readiness (SB 212) • Integrate personal financial literacy (HB 1168)

11. Colorado’s Paradigm Shift…All Students, All Standards Focus, Coherence, Rigor Content and Skills, Horizontal and Vertical Alignment, Mastery, Disciplinary Literacy

12. Focus, Coherence, Rigor Design Principles and Instructional Shifts: • Focus on the standards, the concepts and skills graduates need for the 21st century. • Coherence is evident in the interconnections of concepts and skills across grades and in and between disciplines. • Rigor requires fluency, application, and deep understanding for mastery.

13. Focus: Grade Level Expectations Old Standards 1. Many standards 2. List of content 3. Broad/Vague 4. Grade Spans 5. Wish list heavy Colorado Academic Standards 1. Fewer Standards 2. Transferable Concepts & Skills 3. Specific 4. Grade level points of mastery toward Postsecondary and Workforce Readiness 5. Essentials

14. Vertical Coherence: Vertical Progressions PGC: Analyze and practice rights, roles, and responsibilities of citizens.

15. Horizontal Coherence: Content Connections In Comprehensive Health and PE, an understanding of multiple perspectives and their influences on emotions, perceptions and behaviors allows students to manage their behaviors and develop understanding, tolerance, and compassion for others. Multiple Perspectives In Social Studies, multiple perspectives develop students’ ability to understand how definitions of citizenship are culturally, nationally, politically, and socially constructed. In Visual Arts, understanding familiar and unfamiliar cultures necessitates an examination of multiple perspectives in order to discern intended meanings.

16. Rigor: Mastery Citizenship Practices Analyze multiple perspectives Participate in democratic decision making Demonstrateleadership and team-member responsibilities Advocatefor ideas Respect the views and rights of others Engage in appropriate civic participation to address local, state, and national issues or policies. Apply and Transfer

17. Imagine a classroom 50 years ago. Does it look any different today?

18. 3 Areas to Shift

20. Standards and Instructional Support Team • Support tools for the implementation of the Colorado Academic Standards • Colorado’s District Sample Curriculum Project • Transition Action Plan

21. Curriculum • All students, all standards • Organized plan of instruction based on the CAS • Mastery of grade level expectations • 21st century skills • Intentional infusion of academic language • Vertical alignment to ensure postsecondary and workforce readiness

22. Curriculum An organized plan of instruction that engages students in mastering the standards Standards Textbooks Resources Instructional Materials

23. Rationale/origins • The Colorado Department of Education (CDE) defines curriculum as an organized plan of instruction for engaging students in mastering the standards. This curriculum project originated as a response to increasing requests from Colorado educators for voluntary-use curriculum samples based on the new Colorado Academic Standards (CAS). From its beginnings, the field of educators across the state has been the driving force behind this project. This will continue to be the case as the project proceeds. • As the next step in standards support for the state, the project is oriented around three fundamental goals: • Facilitating successful implementation of the CAS • Helping build the capacity of Colorado educators to create curriculum materials based on the standards • Bringing together Colorado’s educators to create a variety of samples that reflect the diversity of our school districts Colorado’s District Sample Curriculum Project

24. Colorado’s District Sample Curriculum Project Project phases and associated outcomes Phase One: • Develop a unit-overview template for all subjects and grades • Work with Colorado educators to create unit overview samples based on the CAS for all subjects and grades. Phase Two: • Conduct area workshops to build capacity around the process and products associated with the Project • Work with Colorado educators in workshops across the state to create additional (locally specific) unit overview samples Phase Three: • Develop an instructional-unit template for all subjects and grades • Work with Colorado educators to create unit samples for all subjects and grades based on select unit overviews

25. Colorado’s District Sample Curriculum Project Phase One outcomes Participants • 500+ educator participants • 42 of 64 counties represented • 61 of 178 districts represented Products • 670 unit overviews- all content areas (k-12) and STEM (1st, 8th, high school) • Coded to the CAS • Teacher/educator authorship and district affiliation on every page of unit overviews Postings • January 31st- Standards and Instructional website-Individual content area and Sample Curriculum Project webpages • Coming months eNet Colorado access (DREAM Marketplace)

26. Colorado’s District Sample Curriculum Project Sample unit overviews The samples offer organizing structures for addressing the grade-level expectations (GLEs), evidence outcomes (EOs) and 21st century skills that build students' mastery of the standards at each grade level. The samples: • Represent the translation of the CAS into unit overviews for all (10) content areas, grades k-12 • Illuminate possibilities for sequencing grade-level and content-specific standards across courses/years • Offer one possible foundation for exploring standards-based unit and lesson-plan development A closer look A 4th Grade social studies sample provides an opportunity to: • Highlight major components of the template • Explain key terms • Offer possible uses for the samples

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31. Colorado’s District Sample Curriculum Project • Samples: • Represent the translation of the CAS into unit overviews for all (10) content areas, grades k-12 • Illuminate possibilities for sequencing grade-level and content-specific standards across courses/years • Offer one possible foundation for exploring standards-based unit and lesson-plan development • Design reflects emphasis on concepts and content in Colorado Academic Standards and Common Core State Standards • Focus: Centers around ideas • Coherence: Supports teaching to greater intellectual depth • Rigor: Emphasizes knowledge TRANSFER and APPLICATION • Design reflects feedback from educators across the state with technical assistance from Dr. Lynn Erickson • This is Colorado’s Template!

33. Colorado’s District Sample Curriculum Project Project phases and major outcomes Phase One (Completed-Fall 2012): • Colorado educators work together in grade level and content area teams to engage in process of translating Colorado Academic Standards into curriculum samples • Educators create unit overview samples based on the CAS for all subjects and grades • Standards and Instructional Support team produces Process Guide for creating unit overviews Phase Two (Completed-Spring 2013): • Standards and Instructional Support team conducts area workshops across the state to build capacity around the process and products associated with the Project • Hundreds of Colorado educators participate and begin process of adapting/modifying existing samples and/or creating their own unit overviews Phase Three (Fall 2013-Spring 2014): • Colorado educators create full instructional units for all subjects and grades based on select unit overviews created during Phase One

35. Colorado’s District Sample Curriculum Project Phase Three – Fall 2013 In the Project’s final phase, the SIS team will travel across Colorado to work with educators in district settings to build the units, based on select samples (unit overviews), which will include learning strategies, resource suggestions, differentiation options, and assessment ideas. As with the first phase of the workshops, the SIS team will diligently pursue the participation of educators to ensure representation of the diverse teaching force and districts across Colorado. During a three-day workshop delivered within a district, a team of educators will produce one full instructional unit. This process reflects a model of educators working together to plan for the instruction of all students. Teams will be comprised of: • 2 general education teachers (content specialists) • 1 ELL teacher • 1 Gifted and Talented teacher • 1 Special education teacher • 1 Title One teacher

36. Standards and Instructional Support

37. Please join us for this special event featuring perspectives from leaders in the field, showcases of extraordinary educator preparation programs from across the state, and an opportunity to learn collaboratively and embed Colorado's initiatives into your courses! Please RSVP to inform our event planning on or before Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Summit2013RSVP