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Common Core State Standards
Initiative and New York State
Involvement
Adapted and presented by
Dina M. Anzalone and Laura S. Seinfeld
September 21, 2010
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Brutal Facts
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1/10 Kindergarten students who begin school during the
2010-11 school year will attend college
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18/100 students who enter grade 9 will earn a college
degree within 6 years
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Currently, 30% of American adults have college
degrees
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SALARIES:
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Advanced Degree:
College Degree:
High School Diploma:
High School Drop-out:
$72,000
$51,000
$27,000
$19,000
1997 – 2002: The amount of new knowledge developed
during that period is more than the whole history of
civilization (Hammond, as cited in Calkins, 2010)
Solution to Brutal Facts
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Face the brutal facts with undying
optimism (Collins, 2001)
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It’s realistic that we do not lower our
standards to meet proficiency (Calkins,
Teachers College in person conference,
July 2010)
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The Common Core State Standards (CCSS)
THE PROCESS
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What is the Common Core
State Standards Initiative?
GOALS:
•States to collectively develop and adopt a core set of academic
standards in English Language Arts (ELA) and mathematics
•States choosing to align their standards to CCSS agreed that the
common core will represent at least 85% of their state’s
standards in ELA and mathematics
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Standards are informed by:
Best state standards;
 Experience of teachers, content experts,
states and leading thinkers; and
 Feedback from the general public
 Advisory group: Achieve, ACT, The
College Board, The Nat’l Assoc. of State
Boards of Ed. and the State Higher Ed.
Exec. Officers.
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The Standards…
Are aligned with college and work expectations;
 Are clear, understandable, and consistent;
 Include rigorous content and application of knowledge
through high-order skills;
 Build upon strengths and lessons of current state
standards;
 Are informed by other top performing countries, so that
all students are prepared to succeed in our global
economy and society; and
 Are evidence-based
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CATEGORY 1
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College and career
readiness standards,
which address what
students are expected
to learn when they
have graduated from
high school; and
CATEGORY 2
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K – 12 standards,
which address
expectations for
elementary through
high school.
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CCSS Endorsing Partners
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http://www.corestandards.org/about-thestandards/common-core-endorsingpartners
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Timeline for release of CCSS in New York
State (NYS)
September
2009
March
2010
• Draft college and career ready graduation standards released for
public comment
• Draft of K-12 standards released for public comment
• Final standards released
June 2010
July 2010
• NYS Board of Regents adopted the CCSS with the understanding that NYS may add
additional expectations to the Common Core (up to 15%)
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Key Points
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS
The “staircase” of increasing complexity
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Current Research Suggests
◦ Students are only reading expository
texts 7-15% of the day
◦ K-5 division between informational and
fiction texts should be 50-50 across the
day, across all subject areas (6-8 grade,
55/45)
Old Standards vs. New
Standards
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Of 5 strands, 4
were about
decoding; 1 was
about lowerlevel
comprehension
No place for
writing or
higher-level
comprehension
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New definition of a literate
person
Reading assessed through
writing
Must be able to read complex
texts to acquire knowledge
Stress on Writing because
writing is becoming a great
force of democracy across the
world : (Argument/Opinion,
Narrative, Informational)
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Overview of CCSS for ELA
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Contains an “Introduction” with clarifications and
guidance
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Standards are organized by:
• grade-level (K-8) and grade-band (9-10; 11-12)
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Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening, and Language
strands
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Three main sections:
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Appendices with research supporting the standards,
examples of illustrative texts, and samples of student
writing
• a comprehensive K-5 section
• two content area-specific sections for grades 6-11 (one in ELA
and one in history/social studies and science)
Key Points
MATHEMATICS
“Dive” into mathematical practices (West,
in person conference, July 2010)
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Overview of CCSS for Mathematics
•Includes
eight mathematical practices that are to be woven
throughout the curriculum and taught in conjunction with content and
procedures
•Grade level standards for grades K-8 organized by:
• Domains (large groups of related standards)
•Clusters (smaller groups of related standards)
•Bands
of progressions in grades K-8 organized by domains and
clusters
•Grades
9-12 organized in conceptual categories or
modules/progressions under the headings of:
• Number and Quantity, Algebra, Functions,
Geometry,Statistics and Probability, and Modeling
•Appendices
include grades 9-12 model course descriptions based on
the conceptual categories
•Glossary
of terms
How does the CCSS Initiative connect to
the Board of Regents Standards Review
Initiative?
•Chapter
57 of the Laws (2007) mandates the SED to establish a timeline
and process to review/evaluate the NYS Learning Standards (1996),
beginning with ELA
•Over
the past two years, the Standards Review Initiative ELA Panel has
reviewed and revised the NYS ELA Learning Standards
•The
grade by grade draft PreK-12 document for ELA/ESL Learning
Standards was presented to the Board of Regents at its December 2009
meeting
•The
draft ELA/ESL Learning Standards revision work will be considered in
conjunction with the final NGA/CCSSO Common Core Standards
•The
Board of Regents adopted the revised NYS Mathematics Standards in
2005
•The
NYS Mathematics Standard 3 will be benchmarked against the CCSS
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What is the process for adoption in
NYS?
Adopt a combined set of new learning standards and grade-by-grade
performance expectations P-12 in ELA and mathematics
Learning standards will be informed by the CCSS, the draft Standards Review
Initiative ELA/ESL Learning Standards, and the 2005 Mathematics Core
Over the summer, NYSED convened two groups of educators (one for ELA
and one for Mathematics) to review the CCSS and determine if there are
additional standards for NYS to add (up to 15%)
In the fall, the Board of Regents will review and share recommended
standards with the public for feedback.
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NYSED Next Steps
•Integrate
the revised learning standards into the State’s
P-12 schools
•Revise
the State’s Testing Program to measure student
attainment of the learning standards
•Revise/create
standards in other subjects, such as
science, technology, and the Arts
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HWPS Next Steps
•“For
systemic change to occur, educators and
students must be supported (e.g., time, resources,
teacher preparation, professional development) in
changing classroom practice to facilitate attainment
of the learning standards” (NYSED, 2010).
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leaders we need to carefully review the CCSS
and further guidance from NYSED to develop a
systematic and systemic plan for working with staff,
families, and students, THEREFORE…
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DAP CHARGES
•Review
pertinent materials with chairs, grade levels,
departments www.corestandards.org
•Compare
CCSS to current written, taught, and tested
curriculum
Review on November Superintendent’s
Conference Day
•Suggestion:
•DILT members
will be asked to report plans and progress
at meeting on December 9, 2010
•Identify any
gaps that may be addressed through redesign of programs & curriculum mapping projects
Questions and Answers