Why is the Core important

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Why is the Core important?

• To set high expectations
• for all students
• for educators
• To attend to the learning needs of students
• To break through the achievement plateau
• To address global and local challenges

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Essential Concepts and Skill Sets defines the
most critical learning for all students.

• Content Areas
• Literacy
• Mathematics
• Science
• Social Studies
• 21st Century Skills

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Objectives

• Identify and describe outcomes, targets and
  actions that frame the work of the Implementation
  Plan.
• Identify initial starting points to each outcome
• Prepare the leadership team to communicate with
  other staff and stakeholders on ways to
  communicate the purpose and key features of the
  Implementation Plan.

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Core Curriculum Implementation

• Each district and accredited non-public school is
  required to have a written plan describing the
  actions that will be taken to address the six
  outcomes and related targets and actions.

• Full implementation is accomplished when the
  school is able to provide evidence that an
  ongoing process is in place to ensure that each
  and every student is learning the Essential
  Concepts and Skill Sets of the Iowa Core
  Curriculum.

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Outcomes
Schools Continuous Improvement
Professional Development
Leadership System Capacity
Community Support Implementation
Leadership - Community - Schools 1. Leadership
System Capacity 2. Community Support
Implementation 3. Schools Continuous Improvement
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Outcomes
Professional Development
Community
Alignment
Instruction

• Content - Instruction Assessment
• Alignment of Content, Instruction and Assessment
• Professional Development to improve Content,
  Instruction, and Assessment
• Instruction Effective Practices in
  Instruction/Assessment Student Engagement

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Leadership System Capacity
Outcome 1

• IF leadership actions are focused and committed
  to providing the expertise, guidance, and
  resources needed to build capacity and support
  teaching and learning,
• THEN the implementation of the Iowa Core
  Curriculum will result in increased student
  learning and performance.

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Leaders

• Teachers
• Administrators
• School Board

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Leadership System Capacity

• Target
• Implementation of leadership behaviors to sustain
  the Iowa Core Curriculum.

• Actions
• Establish a leadership team
• Clearly communicate a vision of ICC
• Manage the change process
• Demonstrate a deep understanding of the Core
• Establish a collaborative process
• Deploy needed resources
• Establish ways to sustain the implementation
• Model best practice of adult learning
• Develop the Implementation Plan
• Engage in discussion with local school board

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Community Support Implementation
Outcome 2
Partners Parents School Boards Business
Industry Supporting agencies Community
Organizations

• IF multiple partners are interdependent,
• THEN schools will function as an integrated
  system to provide a coordinated approach,
  consistent communication, additional
  opportunities for learning, and the ongoing
  supports needed for student to be successful.

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Community Support Implementation

• Target
• Coordination of community and other systems to
  support the Iowa Core Curriculum implementation

• Actions
• Develop community understanding of Iowa Core
  Curriculum
• Involve community members in the development and
  implementation of the Core Curriculum Plan
• Coordinate learning supports within the school
  and the community to support the implementation
  of the Core Curriculum Plan

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Schools Continuous Improvement
Outcome 3

• IF the Iowa Core Curriculum and related school
  improvement processes function as an ongoing
  continuous improvement processes based on data,
• THEN the school will constantly adjust and
  improve to yield positive outcomes for all
  students.

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Schools Continuous Improvement

• Targets
• Use data to develop and monitor the
  Implementation Plan
• Engage stakeholders in goal setting, developing
  school improvement plans and integrating various
  school plans

• Actions
• Complete the Core Curriculum self assessment
• Continuously document progress
• Develop a review schedule
• Develop a way to integrate existing planning
  processes with the Core Implementation Plan

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Alignment to the Iowa Core Curriculum
Outcome 4

• IF district leaders monitor and increase the
  degree of alignment among the intended, enacted,
  and assessed curriculum.
• THEN the quality of instruction will improve and
  student learning will increase.

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Alignment

• Targets
• Acquire expertise in alignment
• Prepare and implement alignment processes
• Conduct alignment beyond curriculum

• Actions
• Learn the alignment processes
• Select those that will be used locally
• Conduct the alignment process
• Address each and every students enacted
  curriculum
• Address the alignment of instruction to
  assessment

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Professional Development
Outcome 5

• IF professional development is based on the Iowa
  Professional Development Model and focused on
  improved content, instruction, and assessment
  practices,
• THEN student learning and performance will
  increase.

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Professional Development

• Target
• Use data to guide professional development
• Provide effective professional development

• Actions
• Use instructional review and student achievement
  data to guide professional development
• Engage in professional development that contains
  all elements of the Iowa Professional Development
  Model

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Effective Instruction
Outcome 6

• IF content is challenging and relevant and
  teachers routinely deliver instruction that
  demonstrates the Characteristics of Effective
  Instruction,
• THEN student learning and performance will
  increase.

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Characteristics of Effective Instruction and
Assessment
Student Engagement Learning
Professional Growth
Assessment for Learning
Rigor Relevance
Teaching for Understanding
Student- Centered Classroom
Student Centered
Teaching for Learner Differences
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Effective Instruction

• Targets
• Implement the Characteristics of Effective
  Instruction in classrooms
• Engaged Students

• Actions
• Select Characteristics of Effective instruction
  as the initial focus of instructional improvement
  
• Select the tools and routinely conduct
  instructional reviews
• Incorporate a broad range of strategies and
  activities that provide each student access and
  success with the Core Curriculum

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Leadership

• Given these six outcomes, where does a leadership
  team in your school need to start with its
  planning to get to the kind of instruction and
  assessment based on the content of the core that
  was evident at the beginning of this presentation?

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Implementation Top 10

• Teachers make the difference
• It is about the success of all students
• The expectation is that all students learn at
  high levels
• It is about the alignment of teaching,
  assessment, content AND the desired depth of
  understanding at the classroom level
• Evidence of success comes from assessments
• Implementation of the Core is a continuous
  process
• Teacher leadership and involvement is critical
• Implementation should honor and extend prior work
  in curriculum and instruction
• The community should be a part with the school
  focused on 21st Century skills
• The AEA Network is there to help

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Timeframe
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What Can You Do?

• www.iowamodelcore.org
• Essential Skills and Concepts
• Technical Assistance
• http//www.iowa.gov/educate/content/view/674/714/
  
• FAQs
• http//www.iowa.gov/educate/content/view/1446/916/
  
• AEA Leaders
• http//www.iowa.gov/educate/content/view/1365/1157
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• Judy Jeffreys Podcast
• http//www.iowa.gov/educate/content/view/854/1006/
  
• School Leader Updates

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