Transcript Common Core State Standards in Connecticut

Common Core State Standards
in Connecticut
ELMS PTA Presentation
October 16, 2012
Dr. Judy DeLeeuw, Principal
Jason Bitgood, Assistant Principal
Jennifer Frost, Literacy Specialist
Carla Woitovich, Library Media Specialist
What are the Common Core State
Standards?
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A bipartisan, state led effort to define the knowledge
and skills students need to master to succeed in
college and careers
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Adopted by 48 states as of June 2012
Developers of the CCSS:
National Governors Association, Council of Chief
State School Officers, State Representatives,
educators, content experts, researchers, national
organizations, community groups
Why were the Common Core State
Standards developed?
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Currently, every state has its own set of
academic standards, meaning public
education students in each state are learning
to different levels
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All students must be prepared to compete
with not only their American peers in the next
state, but with students from around the
world
What are the Common Core
State Standards?
Aligned with college and work expectations
Focused and coherent
Include rigorous content and application of
knowledge through high-order skills
 Build upon strengths and lessons of current state
standards
 Internationally benchmarked so that all students are
prepared to succeed in our global economy and
society
 Based on evidence and research
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How will student progress be
measured?
Connecticut Mastery Test (CMT) no longer used after
2013-2014
New CCSS assessment system under development by
the Smarter Balanced assessment consortium
New assessment system in place 2014-2015
http://www.smarterbalanced.org/about/
Language Arts/Literacy Standards
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Reading- text complexity and comprehension growth
Writing- text types, responding to reading, research
Speaking and Listening- flexible communication and
collaboration
Language – conventions, effective use, and vocabulary
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Define what students should know and be able to do, not
how teachers teach
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Do not define the instructional methods or materials
What is the Different about Language
Arts Standards?
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Grades K-5 requires 50/50 balance of narrative and
informational text
Grades 6-12 reading closely and critically in content
area text and writing about it
All students access appropriately complex text
Questions based on what was read
Writing to inform and persuade using evidence
Emphasis on academic vocabulary
What are the standards for literacy in
History/Social Studies, Science, & the
Technical Subjects?
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Standards for reading and writing
Complement rather than replace content standards
in those subjects
Responsibility of teachers in those subjects
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Alignment with college and career readiness
expectations
Mathematics
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Standards for Mathematical Practice
Carry across all grade levels
Describe habits of mind of a mathematically expert
student
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Standards for Mathematical Content
K-8 standards presented by grade level
Organized into domains that progress over several
grades
Grade introductions give 2–4 focal points at each
grade level
High school standards presented by conceptual
theme (Number & Quantity, Algebra, Functions,
Modeling, Geometry, Statistics & Probability)
What is different about the
Mathematics standards?
Focus and coherence
Focus on key topics at each grade level
Coherent progressions across grade levels
 Balance of concepts and skills
Content standards require both conceptual
understanding and procedural fluency
 Mathematical practices
Foster reasoning and sense-making in mathematics
 College and career readiness
Level is ambitious but achievable
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Assured Research Experiences
Grades 5-8
Goal: To create a cohesive multi- disciplinary
research unit at each grade level that will embed 21st
century literacy skills into content area standards.
Grade 5: Social Studies/Exploration
Grade 6: Science/Ecology
Grade 7: Science/Human Body Systems
Grade 8: Social Studies/American Revolution
Assured Research Experiences
Each project will incorporate the following:
Enduring learning standards
 Common Core State Standards (CCSS)
 Nation Education Technology Standards (NETS)
 Collaboration
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What work is being done at ELMS to
implement the CCSS?
LANGUAGE ARTS/LITERACY
MATHEMATICS
Subject area meetings: overview, studying standards, gap analysis,
curriculum alignment, review of test item exemplars
Subject area meetings: overview, studying standards, gap analysis,
curriculum alignment, review of test item exemplars
Development of Common Assured Research Experiences in Science
and Social Studies
all units have been written for grades 5 & 6
6 units out of 8 will be implemented this year for grade 5, and
6 units out of 8 will implemented for grade 6 as required by the CT
department of education transition guide
Integration of CCSS-like assessment items and scoring procedures
into the common assessments used 3x yearly
4 out of 7 units have been written for grade 7 --all 4 will be
implemented
4 out of 7 units have been written for grade 8 --all 4 will be
implemented
Assessment and alignment of instruction materials (eg: fiction and
non-fiction)
Ongoing professional development
Ongoing professional development
Ongoing communication with CT state department of education
Ongoing communication with CT state department of education
CCSS Resources
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http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards
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http://www.sde.ct.gov/sde/cwp/view.asp?a=2618
&q=322592
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PTA Parent Guides
◦ http://pta.org/3rd_Grade_June30.pdf
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Council of Great City Schools Parent
Roadmaps
◦ Grade Eight
Common Core State Standards
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Questions?