Chicago Public Schools StandardsBased Curriculum Initiative

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Chicago Public SchoolsStandards-Based Curriculum
Initiative
Office of Standards-Based Instruction Sharon L.
Ransom, Chief Officer
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Chicago Public Schools Standards-Based
Curriculum Initiative
Standards-Based Curriculum What do students need
to know and be able to do? What do students need
to learn?
Identify and Plan Assessments How will I know if
students are learning? What will they need to do
to show mastery? What products will I collect?
Collect and Analyze Evidence of Student
Mastery Are the students learning? What have they
mastered? What do I need to reteach?
Standards-Based Instruction What learning
activities must I provide to ensure that all
students show mastery?
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Phase I
Selecting Standards, Benchmarks, and Performance
Descriptors

• Essential Standards, Benchmarks, and
• Performance Descriptors
• Mapping your Grade Level and Course Plans

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Phase II
Moving from Standards and Benchmarks to
determining Evidence of Student Mastery

• What does mastery look like at this grade level?
• What are the performance tasks?
• What are the performance criteria for mastery?
• How do I communicate this to my students?

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Phase III
Designing Instruction

• Common Focus Skills
• Common Instructional Strategies
• Common Learning Activities
• Differentiating Instruction
• Flexible Grouping
• Instruction that includes multiple levels of
• understanding

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Phase IV
Analyzing Classroom Assessment Data What can
the data tell us?

• Analyzing student work, products, and
• performances for evidence of mastery
• Analyzing individual student, classroom, and
• grade-level performance to inform instruction
• Communicating results to students and parents

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NOW THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING!

• It changes the goal of my instruction.
• It changes my expectations of students.
• It changes how I plan instruction.
• It changes how I measure students progress
  toward mastery of content area knowledge and
  skills.
• It changes what I do with assessment results.
• It changes how I communicate expectations to
  students.

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Chicago Public Schools Standards-Based
Curriculum Initiative
Standards-Based Curriculum What do students need
to know and be able to do? What do students need
to learn?
Identify and Plan Assessments How will I know if
students are learning? What will they need to do
to show mastery? What products will I collect?
Collect and Analyze Evidence of Student
Mastery Are the students learning? What have they
mastered? What do I need to reteach?
Standards-Based Instruction What learning
activities must I provide to ensure that all
students show mastery?