Preparing Students for College and Career Introduction to the Common Core State Standards

1. Preparing Students for College and Career Introduction to theCommon Core State Standards

2. ObjectivesToday, parents will… • Understand what standards are and how they were designed • Understand why and how the CCSS came about • Understand what the CCSS means for your child’s education and how to support it

3. The What & the Why of the Common Core • Clear and consistent expectations for students, parents, and teachers • Ensure that all students have access to the same high quality education • Create a partnership with students and parents

4. Explaining theCommon Core State Standards http://vimeo.com/51933492

5. Difference #1

6. More Differences California Standards • Student expectations are different state by state • Developed by state educational leaders • Developed starting from kindergarten expectations = BOTTOM UP Common Core State Standards • Equity of access to the same high quality standards for all students across USA • Developed collaboratively amongst teachers, administrators, parents, professionals and organizations • Developed from evidence-based research and studying the standards of high performing countries • DESIGNED WITH THE END IN MINDMakes sure students are prepared for the expectations of colleges and careers

7. MAJOR Difference “My thoughts” “My reactions” “My prior knowledge” vs. This text, this resource-in-common we are all sharing, exploring, learning from… “EVIDENCE FROM THE TEXT”

8. College & Career Readiness CCR Anchor Standards Strands Speaking & Listening Reading Writing Language 10 10 6 6

9. Common Core ELA Standards 6-12 Speaking & Listening Reading Writing Language 10 10 6 6 K-5 INFO LIT Every Anchor Standard in each Strand has a K-CCRProgression K-CCR Progression K-CCR Progression K-CCR Progression K-CCR Progression K-CCR Progression K-CCR Progression K-CCR Progression K-CCR Progression

10. Exploring the CCSS DesignSTRIP Activity ProgressionofREADING STANDARD #1across the K-12 SpanInformational WHAT DO YOU NOTICE?

11. Common Core ELA Standards Speaking & Listening Reading Writing Language 10 10 6 6 K-5 INFO LIT Foundational Skills K-5 K-CCR Progression K-CCR Progression K-CCR Progression K-CCR Progression K-CCR Progression

12. “The new standards require as much early emphasis on decoding and fluency as in the recent past, and claims to the contrary are no more than myths.” Timothy Shanahan MythBuster Foundational Skills K-5

13. Common Core ELA Standards CCR Anchor Standards Speaking & Listening Reading Language Writing 10 10 6 6 6-12 INFO LIT HSS, SCI, TECH Speaking & Listening Reading Writing Language 10 10 6 6 K-5 INFO LIT Foundational Skills K-5

14. CCSS Shifts for Students ELA/Literacy - Comprehension • Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction • Reading, writing and speaking grounded in evidence from text, both literary and informational

15. CCSS Shifts for Students ELA/Literacy - Language - • Regular practice with complex text and its academic language • VOCABULARY and language development

16. How can you help a child in literacy? • Chant rhymes, match letters and sounds, draw detailed pictures. • Ask children specific questions about what they read. “How do you know?” • Have them show you their answers in the text. “Show me where it says that” • Encourage children to read, write and speakabout nonfiction text in addition to literature. (i.e., newspapers, magazines, and biographies) • Model reading and talk with your child

17. How can you help a child in literacy? • Encourage children to research topics of interest and read multiple texts relating to a central topic. • Have your child follow step by step directions in order to accomplish a task, such as building a sandcastle or operating a game. • Help them get “word aware” – identify word parts and see how many related words in a “word family” they can think of or “collect” – attention to COGNATES • Nation – national – international – native – pre-natal • Nacer – nacional – internacional – nativo - natividad

18. CCSS Shifts for Students Mathematics • Focus strongly where the Standards focus • Coherence: Think across grades, and link to major topics within grades • Rigor: In major topics pursue conceptual understanding, procedural skill and fluency, and application with equal intensity

19. Math CCSS Progression

21. Math Practices • Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. • Reason abstractly and quantitatively. • Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. • Model with mathematics. • Use appropriate tools strategically. • Attend to precision. • Look for and make use of structure. • Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

22. How can you help your child in math? • Help children practice their math facts: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. • Encourage children not to give up while solving problems, to build stamina and develop their critical thinking skills. Don’t give them the answers - ask them to think of different ways they can solve problems. • Have children illustrate the math they were thinking in their head and discuss it out loud. • Have children apply their math knowledge to a real-world scenario at home, such as doubling a recipe or calculating the area of a room.

23. 21st Century Skills • Creativity/Innovation • Communication • Critical Thinking/Problem Solving • Collaboration

24. LAUSD and the CCSS • iPad initiative • Phase I- 47 schools, Sept/Oct 2013 • Phase III– January 2014 • Phase III- August 2014 • Pearson ELA & Math Curriculum • Apps from Apple & 3rd Parties

25. LAUSD and the CCSS • LAUSD training teacher leaders and administrators: 2012-13 – Grades K-1, 6, 92013-14 – Grades 2-5, 7-8, 10-12 • AssessmentsSmarter Balanced (SBAC) 2014-15 • All teachers fully teaching to the CCSS by the start of the 2014-2015 school year

26. Parent’s Roadmaps to the CCSS • Developed by the Council of Great City Schools • Individual resource booklets grades K-8 have been created for English Language Arts and K-8 Math • LAUSD Common Core website http://ccss.lausd.net/parentscommunity

27. Parent Roadmaps to the CCSS • Provides information about what your child should be learning at each grade once the CCSS are fully implemented • Sample questions to ask your child’s teacher • Sample progression of what your child should be learning • Tips of what you can do at home to help your child be successful in school

28. Additional Resources LAUSD CCSS ccss.lausd.net Achieve the Corewww.achievethecore.org California Department of Education http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/cc/ Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortiumhttp://www.smarterbalanced.org National Parent Teachers Association (PTA) http://pta.org/parents/content.cfm?ItemNumber=2583

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