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California’s
Common
Core
Standards
Ventura County Office of Education
Curriculum Council Meeting
September 24, 2010
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California’s
Common Core
Standards
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Background
Content
What’s next
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Background
Timeline 20092010
Nation
Early 2009: Council of Chief State School
Officers and National Governors Association
begin Common Core State Standards
September 2009: draft College and Career
Readiness Standards
September-March 2010: CCSS begins- input
from 48 states, K-12 teachers, postsecondary faculty, C&I experts, researchers,
national organizations
March 2010: Draft CCSS published- 10,000
comments
June 2, 2010: Final CCSS released
California
May 2009: SBE, State Superintendent of
Public Education and Governor agree to
participate in CCSSO and NGA initiative to
develop CCSS as part of RTTT
January 2010: Senate Bill X5 1 provides for
adoption of CCSS, including formation of an
Academic Content Standards Commission.
15% of CA standards may be added
June-July 2010: Academic Content Standards
Commission develops recommendation,
including 15% CA standards
August 2, 2010: SBE adopts CCSS, including
recommendations from ACSC. SBE directs
CDE staff to develop implementation plan
(due: 11/10)
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To date, 36 states + District of Columbia have
adopted Common Core Standards
Source: www.corestandards.org
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Common Core Standards
 Each state can make only a 15% change by adding or
deleting standards from the original Common Core
 California did not delete any of the original Common
Core Standards. Instead, we added standards based
on the following criteria:
 Substantively enhance
 Address
a perceived gap
 Be defensible
 Keep
to classroom practitioners
the original standard intact
 Ensure
the rigor of California’s existing standards is
maintained
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Content
English Language Arts
and Mathematics
Common Core Standards Design
Built on the strength of current state
standards, the CCSS are designed to be:
 Focused,
coherent, clear and rigorous
 Internationally
 Anchored
 Evidence
benchmarked
in college and career readiness*
and research based
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Overarching Goals for K-12
Common Core Standards
 Ensure that our students are:
 Meeting
college and work expectations
 Prepared
to succeed in our global economy and
society, and
 Provided
with rigorous content and applications of
higher knowledge through higher order thinking
skills.
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English Learners and
Students with Disabilities
 Experts in the areas of English learners and Students
with Disabilities helped develop these standards so
that:
Access is improved to provide rigorous academic
content standards
Expectations are elevated to prepare all students to be
college and career ready
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Common Core State
Standards for
Mathematics
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Overview of K-8
Mathematics Standards
Defines what students should understand and be able to do, balancing
procedure and understanding
Sets grade level standards for K-8
Identifies standards for Algebra I
High school standards are organized by conceptual clusters, NOT by
course (Number and Quantity, Modeling, Algebra, Geometry, Functions,
Statistics and Probability)
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Organization of
Mathematics Standards
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Grade K-8 Standards
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Overview page
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Standards by grade level
Grade K-8 and High School Standards
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Domains
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Additional language or whole standards that are bolded and underlined
were added by the California Academic Content Standards
Commissions (CACSC) to maintain rigor of California expectations.
For more specific information on Mathematics Common Core
Standards, please contact Vicki Vierra or Dr. Staci Block at
437-1330, or [email protected] or [email protected].
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Common Core State
Standards for
English Language Arts and
Literacy in
History/ Social Studies,
Science, and Technical
Subjects
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Overview of K-12
ELA/Literacy Standards
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Anchored in college and career readiness
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Focused on text complexity and what students read
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Addresses reading and writing across the curriculum (including
History/Social Science, Science, and Technical Subjects)
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Emphasize is on the analysis of informational text vs. literacy text
(K-5 breakdown is 50:50 and by high school breakdown is a 30:70
favoring informational text)
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Focus is on writing arguments and drawing evidence from sources
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Includes required reading of seminal U.S. texts
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Organization of K-12
ELA/Literacy Standards
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College and Career Readiness (CCR) Standards
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Overarching standards for each strand that are further defined by
grade-specific standards
Grade-Level Standards in English Language Arts
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K-8, grade-by-grade
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9-10 and 11-12 grade bands for high school
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Four strands: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, and Language
Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and
Technical Subjects
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Standards are embedded at grades K-5
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Content-specific literacy standards are provided for grades 6-8, 9-10,
and 11-12
For more specific information on ELA/Literacy Common Core Standards,
please contact Angela Baxter, Charice Guerra or Armando Zuñíga at 4371330, or [email protected], [email protected] or [email protected].
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Common Core State Standards
Evidence Base
Standards from individual high-performing countries and provinces were
used to inform content, structure, and language. Writing teams looked for
examples of rigor, coherence, and progression. In addition to the
examination of other high-performing countries and provinces the
standards from California and Massachusetts were used.
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Belgium (Flemish)
Canada (Alberta)
China
Chinese Taipei
England
Finland
Hong Kong
India
Ireland
Japan
Korea
Singapore
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Australia
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New South Wales
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Victoria
Canada
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Alberta
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British Columbia
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Ontario
England
Finland
Hong Kong
Ireland
Singapore
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What’s Next
1) Current CA Standards
2) Implementation of the CCSS
September 2, 2010: Next Generation of
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Stay the Course
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There are more similarities than differences in the current
California standards and the Common Core Standards
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Implement now a truly balanced instructional program as
this will support the transition
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Continue to use quality assessments to inform and drive
effective instruction
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Provide opportunities for teachers to collaborate and plan
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Remember the timeline
2010-2012 Accountability system based on CA standards
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2012-2013 Accountability system based on CA standards, some
Common Core Standards questions will be piloted
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2013-2014 Accountability system based on CA standards, new
assessment will be field tested
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2014-2015 Accountability system based on Common Core
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Thank you!
Dr. Valerie Chrisman
Executive Director,
Curriculum, Instruction and
Continuous Improvement, VCOE
[email protected]
437-1330