CCSS, UBD, TESS, OH, MY!

Cathy Toney, Library Media Specialist

Conway School District

Common Core State Standards (CCSS)

• Arkansas created their own SLEs. Conway took the standards and created a pacing guide

• Arkansas SLE

• Conway pacing guide

• Arkansas adopted Common Core standards. Teachers have been working on their guides for K-2, 3-8 and soon 9-12 will come on board next year.

CCSS and Conway Library Curriculum

• Conway’s Elementary Libraries were added to the report card for grades last January, 2012.

• There were too many standards to give a grade for everything.

• Our curriculum director told us to look at the CCSS for teachers and find two of our standards that was not being taught by the teachers.

• We found two for each nine weeks starting in the 3rd nine weeks.

Understanding by Design

• UbD template

• 3rd nine weeks

• 1st nine weeks

• We have a share drive where these and all grade level UbDs are stored so we can view what the classroom teachers are teaching. Then we created a list for our use.

• Grade level units

Conway rubrics

• Second Grade

• 1st nine weeks

• 2nd nine weeks

• 3rd nine weeks

• 4th nine weeks

Teacher Excellence Support System (TESS)

Media Specialist Evaluation

• Domain 1

• Domain 2

• Domain 3

• Domain 4

• Artifacts: examples of each component under the Domains

• Notebook for storage of artifacts (example with letter)

Sharing Time

Questions?• Common Core• Understanding by Design• Teacher Excellence

Support System

My information

Cathy Toney, Library Media Specialist

Carolyn Lewis Elementary School

1805 Old Military Rd.

Conway, Arkansas 72034

Phone: 501-450-4835

Cell: 501-269-5777

toneyc@conwayschools.net

cathytoney54@gmail.com

Twitter: @ctoney32

www.happylibrarian54.weebly.com

Carolyn Lewis Elementary Library Media Center : http://cles.conwayschools.org/library-media-center.html