Transcript English Language Arts Common Core Standards Overview

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Welcome
Overview –
Why This? Why Now?—
Vision of a K-12 School —
Standards Progression—
Assessment—
Emily Activity—
Venn Diagram Activity—
The Important Book—
Where Do We Go From Here?—
 Choose
one important
attribute of a leader.
 Share with team or entire
school.
 Be
present and engaged in
the work.
 Keep cell phones on silent.
 Keep sidebar conversations
to a minimum.
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What is my role in the school
common standards network?
What is the structure, organization,
and progression of the standards?
What is formative assessment and
why is it the foundation of this
work?
What are the next steps?
 Find
the one page technology
standards page.
 Highlight differences in the
descriptors by grade level.
 Share out with group.
College and
Career
Readiness
W.CCR.6: Use technology, including the internet, to
produce and publish writing and to interact and
collaborate with others.
W.K.6
With guidance and support from adults, explore a variety
of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including
collaboration with peers.
W.2.6
With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of
digital tools to produce and publish writing, including
collaboration with adults.
W.4.6
With some guidance and support from adults, use
technology, including the internet to produce and publish
writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others;
demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to
type a minimum of one page in a single setting.
W.6.6
Use technology, including the internet, to produce and
publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with
others;demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding
skills to type a minimum of three pages in a single
setting.
College
and
Career
Readiness
W.CCR.6: Use technology, including the internet, to
produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate
with others.
W.6.6
Use technology, including the internet, to produce and
publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with
others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding
skills to type a minimum of three pages in a single setting.
W.8.6
Using technology, including the internet, to produce,
publish, and present the relationships between information
and ideas efficiently as well as to interact and collaborate
with others.
W.1112.6
Use technology, including the internet, to produce, publish,
and update individual or shared writing products in
response to ongoing feedback including new arguments or
information.
Work with a partner to complete this
activity.
 Pick one of the reading standards.
 Trace the standard’s progression from
K-12.
 Use the graphic organizer to show the
learning progressions. (Large legal
size paper.)
 Share your findings with others at
your table.
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Our Charge—Senate Bill 1
Understand how to translate Kentucky’s
Core Standards into clear learning
targets in order to:
Design high quality formative and
summative assessments and to…
 Plan/select rigorous and congruent
learning experiences.
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Reasons for
Assessing
Formative
Assessment for
Learning
To Improve
Learning
Summative
Assessment of
Learning
To document
mastery
To increase
achievement
To measure
achievement
status
How the
Results are
Used
To inform
students about
themselves
To inform others
about students
 Read
“A Good Example: Emily”
p. 4-6 in handouts.
 What did this teacher do to
enhance student motivation and
learning?
 Turn and talk to your neighbor.
 Share out with large group.
Choose one Common Core Reading
Standard.
 Choose one Core Content for
Assessment Standard that is similar.
 Using the Venn Diagram work
individually to find the similarities and
differences.
 Share with a partner.
 Share with the group.
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Written by
Margaret Wise
Brown
The important thing about the sun is that it
shines.
It is the center of the Solar System.
It’s hot.
It sustains life.
It gives us light.
It gives us a tan.
It gives us warmth.
The important thing about the sun is that it
shines.
The important thing about a school
leadership network is____________.
It is ___________________________.
It is ___________________________.
It is ___________________________.
--And since failure is not an option, the
important thing about a school
leadership network is_________________.
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Next Steps—
◦ Ensure all teachers have copies of the LA
common core standards this semester.
◦ Engage teachers in an LA overview of the
standards and include at least one of the
activities used during the Teacher / Staff
Developer training.
It’s all about student learning!