Common Core State Standards

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Common Core State Standards
When?
Who?
What?
Where?
How?
Why?
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WHO?

• All K-12 teachers
• Administrators
• Students

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What?
Transitioning to

• Common Core State Standards
• English Language Arts
• mathematics

• Dont forget
• Literacy Standards in History/Social Studies,
  Science, and Technical Subjects, 6-12

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When? Where?

• Grades K-2 2011-2012
• Grades 3-8 2012 - 2013
• Grades 9-12 2013-2014
• All Districts in AR

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WHY CCSS?

• Your zip code should NOT determine the quality of
  your education

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Why? College and Career-Ready Students

• Demonstrate independence
• Build strong content knowledge
• Respond to the varying demands of audience, task,
  purpose, and discipline
• Page 7 Common Core State Standards for English
  Language Arts Literacy in History/Social
  Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects

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Career and College-Ready Students

• Comprehend as well as critique
• Value evidence
• Use technology and digital media strategically
  and capably
• Come to understand other perspectives and
  cultures
• Page 7 Common Core State Standards for English
  Language Arts Literacy in History/Social
  Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects

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To Do this year from Sandra Alberti 

• Teachers must be aware of CCSS and understand the
  big shifts
• Identify, evaluate, and develop text dependent
  and text specific questions
• Teachers must begin reviewing existing materials
  to develop these text dependent questions

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The Big Shifts

• Appropriate Text Complexity
• Increased Reading of Informational Texts
• Disciplinary Literacy

• Close Reading
• Text-dependent Questions
• Academic Vocabulary--Tier 2 Tier 3 words

• Short Sustained Research
• Projects
• Argumentative Writing

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Writing

• Argument or Persuasive Writing
• With evidence from the text
• Informational/Explanatory Writing
• Narrative
• Most emphasized with CCSS
• If students are writing they are processing,
  synthesizing, evaluating thinking!

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CCSS Math Big Shifts/Progressions?
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CCSS Create New Challenges

• Unlike mathematics, secondary literacy is not a
  discipline. It is homeless in that it belongs
  to everyone and no one.
• Literacy is used in all secondary classrooms, but
  it is not taught in a systematic way.
• How can teachers use LDC modules to meet this
  challenge?

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CCSS Define Literacy in Content Areas

• While the English language arts classroom has
  often been seen as the proper site for literacy
  instruction, this document acknowledges that the
  responsibility for teaching such skills must also
  extend to other content areas.
• http//www.corestandards.org

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HOW?

• Search
• Collaborate
• Learn

• Read
• Reflect
• Revise

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Baby Steps
How will I transition to the CCSS and find
accurate information to assist?
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Institutes and Leadership series

• www.Ideas.aetn.org/commoncore/
• Institutes available
• Strategic plan
• Assessment literacy
• Lesson planning for Formative Assessment
• Learning Progressions in both ELA and math

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ADE Curriculum and Instruction CCSS Wiki Page

• All content area wikis can be accessed from
• http//www.arkansased.org/divisions/learning-servi
  ces/curriculum-and-instruction/resource-materials-
  for-lesson-plans

• Elementary Math Wiki
• Secondary Math Wiki
• Social Studies Wiki
• Library/Technology Wiki
• Music Wiki
• PE and Health Wiki
• Fine Arts Wiki

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Clearing Up Confusion

• Common Core Curriculum Maps http//commoncore.or
  g
• Common Core State Standards http//corestandards.o
  rg

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What are the Curriculum Maps?

• Vendor productwas free last year each unit
  costs (6 units per grade) not able to share
• Developed by Bill Gates Foundation
• Used by many Arkansas schools
• Not affiliated with CCSS or PARCC even though
  Website is commoncore.org
• Reading selections based on maps - Catcher in the
  Rye gr 8 unit

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Beware of the Common Core Package Sets
ELA teachers and literacy specialists are NOT
determining the informational reading selections
in other content areas.
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Pair and Share

• Gates Curriculum Maps Boxed reading sets --
• Advantages?
• Disadvantages?
• Alternatives?
• Share

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Free resources abound

• Library media wiki Hooray for Books
• Social Studies Place wiki
• Library of Congress (LOC.gov)
• What Every Educator Needs to Know resources
  pages (Lucy) document
• Achievethecore.org
• Arkansas Traveler data base

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Michele Snyder michele.snyder_at_arkansas.gov501-6
82-7942

• Maggie Herrick
• Margaret.herrick_at_arkansas.gov
• 501-682-6584