Standards

Literacy

Michael RushExecutive Director

Janet RummelVice President, Common Core Services

Transition to the Common Core State Standards

Co-authors: The National Implementation Pathway for Common Core

State Standards The Common Core Lesson Planner for Classrooms The Common Core Toolkit: Deconstruction and Assessment The Reference Guide for Common Core and High Mobility

Standards

Sponsors: State, Regional and National Institutes on Common Core

State Standards The 2012 National Conference on College and Career

Readiness and Common Core State Standards, June 29 – 30, 2012 - Hyatt Regency Chicago

Who we are

* Elements of Next Generation Assessments

* Assessment Consortia Updates

* Steps to align assessment items to CCSS

* Using formative assessments

* Action Planning

Goals for the Day

1. List two things you already know about the Common Core State Standards.

2. At what stage is your district in the transition to the Common Core State Standards?

Meeting your expectations

What do students need to know and be able to do?

How will we facilitate learning for all students?

How will we know that students have sufficient understanding?

What do we do if they have not achieved proficiency?

Essential Elements

Building a Common Understanding

We must work collaboratively We must think differently We must alter our thinking, our instructional

practice and how we collect evidence of student learning.

We must do this for our students

Fewer

Clearer

Higher Rigor

Common Core State Standards

3.OA.8 Solve two-step word problems using the four operations. Represent these problems using equations with a letter standing for the unknown quantity. Assess the reasonableness of answers using mental computation and estimation strategies including rounding.

3.2.7 Use estimation to decide whether answers are reasonable in addition and subtraction problems. 3.3.1 Represent relationships of quantities in the form of a numeric expression or equation. 3.3.2 Solve problems involving numeric equations. 3.3.3 Choose appropriate symbols for operations and relations to make a number sentence true.

Fewer Standards

Demonstrate understanding of multiple perspectives Know relative sizes of measurement units within one system

of units Create engaging audio recordings Comprehend literature

Clearer

Standards identify expectations, not rigor

High expectations does not equate to high rigor

The rigor is not in the standards it is in the skills student acquire in their classrooms

Higher Rigor

A ball and bat together cost $1.10

The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball

What is the cost of the ball?

Bat and Ball

http://www.corestandards.org

Why Now?

Common Core State Standards

Ensure that ALL students are prepared for post secondary education and the workforce.

Provide a set of CLEAR expectations.

Ensure that we maintain America’s competitive edge!

Common Core State Standards

Quick Facts• Each year, approximately 1.2 million

students fail to graduate from high school, more than half of whom are from minority groups.

• Percent of freshmen that enroll in at least one remedial course:

Community College

Four-Year Institution

42% 20%

Alliance for Excellent Education, February 2009 edition.

Students who enroll in

a remedial readingcourse are 41

percentmore likely to dropout of college. (NCES, 2004a)

58%

17%

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No Remedial Course(s) Remedial Course(s)

STUDENTS OBTAINING BACHELORS DEGREE IN EIGHT YEARS

Alliance for Excellent Education, February 2009 edition.

College Readiness Benchmarks by Subject

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Percent of ACT-Tested School GraduatesMeeting College Readiness BenchmarksBy Subject 2011 66% of all ACT-tested high

school graduates met the English CollegeReadiness Benchmark in 2011. Just1 in 4 (25%) met all four CollegeReadiness Benchmarks.

In 2011, 52% of graduates met The Reading Benchmark, while 45% met the Mathematics Benchmark. Just under 1 in 3 (30%)Met the College Readiness Benchmark in Science.

CHANGE IN TEXT COMPLEXITY IN TEXTBOOKS OVER THE LAST CENTURY

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From Your Perspective:What are the greatest challenges to meeting the expectations of the CCSS?

Partnership for assessment of

college and career readiness

Partnership for assessment of readiness for college and careers (PARCC)

Governing Board States Participating States

PARCC ASSESSMENTS

End-of-Year Assessment

• Innovative, computer-based items

Performance-BasedAssessment (PBA)• Extended tasks• Applications of

concepts and skills

Summative assessment for accountability

Formative assessment

Early Assessment• Early indicator of

student knowledge and skills to inform instruction, supports, and PD

ELA/Literacy

• Speaking• Listening

Flexible

Mid-Year Assessment

• Performance-based

• Emphasis on hard to measure standards

• Potentially summative

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PARCC Timeline

SY 2012-13

First year pilot/field testing and related research and data

collection

SY 2013-14

Second year pilot/field testing

and related research and data collection

SY 2014-15

Full administration

of PARCC assessments

Summer 2015Set achievement levels, including

college-ready performance levels

PARCC WEBSITE: http://www.parcconline.org

Model Content Frameworks

Sample Tasks (Summer 2012)

Instructional Units (Fall 2012)

PARCC Resources

What is important about the information below?Where would you go to find it?

Overview

1. Big ideas in the CCSS for each grade level

2. The focus for the various PARCC assessment components

3. Assist educators in prioritizing instruction

PARCC MODEL Content Frameworks

Key Advances from the Previous Grade

Fluency Expectations

Connecting Mathematical Content and Mathematical Practice

Instructional Emphases by Cluster

Mathematics Model Content frameworks: Grade by grade analysis

Key Advances from Previous Grade

Module Chart

Progression Chart

English Language Arts Model Content frameworks

ELA MODULE CHARTGrade 6

Writing Standards Progression from Grade 7 to Grade 8

PARCC Content Frameworks Investigation

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