Transition To The Common CoreTransforming

Teaching & Learning for

Equity, Access, and Excellence

Council of the Great City SchoolsOctober 17, 2012

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SCUSD• 11th Largest School District in CA• 44,000 Students• 81 Campuses• 69% Free and Reduced Lunch• 36% Hispanic, 19% White, 18.3% Asian, 16.3%

African American, 7% Two or More Races• 40 Languages• 38% EL’s

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Strategic Plan 2010-14

Pillar One: College and Career

Ready Students

Common Core Standards Framework

Common Core

Content Standards

Instructional Shifts

Practices (Math)/

College and Career Ready Descriptors

(ELA)

Curriculum

Equity

Assessment

Teaching & Learning

Professional LearningStandards

Interpretation

Expected Evidence of Student

Learning

Text-based Discussion (Research)

Model Construction (Trying on the Work)

Task & Instructional Plan

Student Work Examination

Revision of Task &

Instructional Plan

Common Core Standards Framework

Common Core

Content Standards

Instructional Shifts

Practices (Math)/

Descriptors (ELA)

Curriculum

Equity

Assessment

Teaching & Learning

• Pillar I: College and Career Ready Students• All Students • Respect=High Expectations• No Excuses or Blame

Equity

• SCUSD’s Definition of Rigor

“The capacity to understand and apply content and

experiences that are complex, ambiguous, provocative,

and personally or emotionally challenging.”

Adapted from SREB

Curriculum

• SCUSD’s Definition of Rigor

• Curriculum Maps

• Units of Study • Deconstruct Language Structure, Form, and

Function within Rich Complex Texts

• Culturally Responsive

Curriculum

• Performance-Based Assessments

• Peer and Self Assessments

• Examination of Student Work

• Focus on Literacy and Language

Assessments

• Instructional Shifts

• College and Career Ready Descriptors

• Instructional Conversations

Teaching and Learning

Capacity Building• Leadership Development• Professional Learning• Training Specialists (District and Site-Based)• Alignment of Current Resources & Practices• Supplemental Resources & Strategies• Electronic Library• Community Awareness & Knowledge

Building

• School and district leadership matter

• Infrastructure of support is vital

• Changing the district’s instructional culture is hard work, messy, and

takes time

• Text Matters

• Student Choice=Student Voice

• Learning is the doing and the doing is the learning

Lessons Learned