Common Core Standards Implementation

1. Common Core Standards Implementation ELA/Literacy and Mathematics • Understand the Change • Be the Change • How to Change

2. 6-month objectives: ELA • Materials: Shift in what students are reading – within existing materials • Reading lists include a balance of literature and informational text • Teachers: Shift in student questions • Shift to 80% of questions asked as text-dependent • Students: Evidence of close reading • Close encounters with sufficiently complex text demonstrated through writing to inform or argue using evidence from text

4. 6-month objectives: Math • Materials: Focus • Clear indication of fewer concepts at each grade level represented by curriculum documents, district formative assessments • Teachers: Identify focus areas and fluencies of grade level • Shift in time spent on areas of in-depth instruction • Students: Demonstrated fluency and understanding • Display fluencies for the grade level and understand focus areas

5. Priorities in Mathematics

6. Math Areas of Priority

7. Mathematical 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.

8. Key Fluencies

10. How to Get There MATH • Materials • Focus • Teachers • Know deep understanding and fluencies • Students • Demonstrate fluencies, depth of understanding ELA/Literacy • Materials • Literature/Literary Non Fiction • Teachers • Identify and Create Text-dependent Questions • Students • Demonstration of close encounter with text through writing 1. Shift the practice of teachers, principals, instructional leaders 2.Regularly visit schools 3.Collect evidence of data and revise actions accordingly