Coffee and Common CoreSession #1: An Overview

Dunlap Grade SchoolMandy Ellis, Natalie Lanser and

Samantha Mahrt

Warm Up

2

I KNOW I WANT

TO KNOW

What do you know and what do you want to know about

the Common Core State Standards

Please jot down your “I Want to Knows” on your note

card

Introductions

Natalie LanserMath Leadership Cadre

Sam MahrtELA Leadership Cadre

Conversation Norms

• Silence your cell phones• Focus on the learning• Communicate respectfully• Ask your questions!

Objectives

• Understand the principles of the CCSS• Understand the 3 shifts in English Language

Arts and Math within the Common Core• Have the opportunity to ask your questions

Additional Learning OpportunitiesJanuary: MathFebruary: ELAMarch: PARCC

Common Core in 3 Minutes

A Shift in Focus

Principles of the CCSS

Fewer - Clearer - Higher

– Focused, coherent, clear and rigorous

– Internationally benchmarked

– Anchored in college and career readiness*

– Evidence- and research-based

Common Core is a set of standards

Common Core Require a Shift from….

10

High School

Completion

College and Career

Readiness for All

College and Career Ready Students

• Establish independence• Acquire a strong content knowledge base• Adapt communication to audience, task,

purpose or discipline• Comprehend, critique and question• Cite and evaluate evidence• Use technology and digital media thoughtfully• Understand other perspectives and cultures

National Governors Association/Chief State School Officers (2010)

PARCCThe Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers

Common assessments aligned to the Common Core in Grades 3-5

Performance-Based Assessment (PBA) • Administered in March• The ELA/literacy PBA will focus on writing effectively when analyzing text• The mathematics PBA will focus on applying skills, concepts, and

understandings to solve multi-step problems requiring abstract reasoning, precision, perseverance, and strategic use of tools

End-of-Year Assessment (EOY) • Administered in May.• The ELA/literacy EOY will focus on reading comprehension.• The math EOY will be comprised of machine-scorable items

Growth Model for student Achievement

Three Shifts inEnglish/Language Arts

Engage in Complex TextExtract and Employ Evidence

Build Knowledge

The CCSS Shifts Build Toward College and Career Readiness for All Students

Regular practice with complex text and its academic language

– Exposure to Complex Texts: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Reader Tasks

– Close Reading: read repeatedly with a clear purpose in mind

– Use of Academic Language

Engage with Complex

Text

Reading and writing grounded in evidence from text, literary

and informational– Right and Wrong vs. How do you know?– What support from the text can you find as

evidence?

Extract and Employ

Evidence

Building knowledge through content rich nonfiction

– Topics or Themes: Students can build on prior knowledge

– Critical Thinkers

Build Knowledge

Three Shifts in MathFocus, Coherence, Rigor

FocusTeach less, learn more

• Put in clusters vs. scope and sequence

Clusters were created to identify what skills 75% of our time should be spent.

Scope and Sequence describes all the skills that are taught and practiced throughout the text book.

The curriculum is defined by the Common Core Standards, not the Math in Focus text books.

CoherenceMath should make sense

1. Make sense of problems and persevere.2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning

of others.4. Model with mathematics5. Use appropriate tools strategically.6. Attend to precision.7. Look for and make use of structure.8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

RigorMath is a balance of concept, process, skill, and

answers

• What this looks like in third grade– PARCC journals– Problem solving focus– Answering in sentences– Speed– Defending answers– Explaining to others

What Are We Doing?

• Common Core Communicator Series• Coffee and Common Core Sessions

• PROE Center• PLC Meetings• SIP Days

Questions?