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Common Core Implementation
Ambassadors Monday Evening Session
November 26, 2012
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Tonight’s Objectives
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• Learn about success stories and common challenges from colleagues
• Develop or refine your individual ambassador plan
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Bright Spots Panel
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Find your bright spots
“When it's time to change, we must look for bright spots -- the first signs that things are working, the first precious As and Bs on our report card.
We need to ask ourselves a question that sounds simple but is, in fact,
deeply unnatural: What's working and how can we do more of it?”
- Chip and Dan Heath, authors of Switch
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Bright Spots Panelists• Kim Crowley, a kindergarten teacher in the East Aurora
School District• John McKenna, an elementary school principal in the
Tonawanda City School District • Lori Ann Storey, a fourth grade teacher in the Waterville
Central School District
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August Refresher: Making a Switch
To affect change in our colleagues and systems, we have to reach both the rider and the elephant.
The emotional side:
The ELEPHANT
The emotional side:
The ELEPHANT
Point to the
destination
Script the critical
moves
Find the feeling
Rally the
herd
The rational side:
The RIDER
The rational side:
The RIDER
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Directing the Rider: Point to the Destination
• Envision a rich, detailed picture of the destination. Why are we doing all this work?
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Are we at the destination when all students are
engaged and motivated?
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When we have a
100% graduation rate?
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When all high school
graduates go on to
college?
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Invent the next big thing?
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Build great things?
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Directing the Rider: Point to the Destination
• Individually, reflect on why you are doing this work and write down a description of your destination on a sticky note. • What does success look like for you?• What is happening in your classroom/school that indicates
that this work has been successful?• Be vivid and specific!
• Post your sticky note on the flipchart.• On your way out tonight, take a look at your
colleague’s destinations.
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Overcoming Obstacles
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Trap Door
Abandon all hope ye who
enter here
OK, I can do this
Reality sets in
Starting out with
high hopes
Neutral
Common Core is great
and will make a
difference in how my
students learn!
Eh, this isn’t so different
from what I was already
doing. What was all the
fuss about?
Uh oh, this changes
everything. This is going
to be a lot more work
for me and my
students.
This is WAY too hard. I
don’t have time for this.
I’m already giving
everything I have.
Wait a minute, this is
starting to make sense.
I can do this and so can
my students!
Beware the trap door
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This is hard, hard work
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• Implementing the Common Core is challenging, sometimes complicated and can seem overwhelming. →Turn to your neighbor and share your biggest
concerns. Have those concerns changed over time?
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Refresher: What are Critical Moves?
•They start with the destination in mind •They articulate how people should act•They begin with an achievable first step
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Examples of Critical Moves
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1. Place red (cut), yellow (if I have time) and green (must do!) sticky notes on your current curricular resources
2. Take the modules you’ll get here and identify how to replace current units/lessons with materials in the modules.
3. Identify and map out the Common Core standards you will be teaching and when next semester
4. Use released NYS and PARCC assessment items with your students and in your lesson planning
5. Research curriculum mapping that already exists for your curriculum (Everyday Math in NYC, e.g.)
6. Plan a couple PD sessions for your colleagues around the shifts and the modules
7. Review your next two units and determine what you can cut out that isn’t directly aligned to the standards
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Sample Ambassador Plan
• Examples of critical moves and other strategies around the three roles of an ambassador:1.Implement the shifts in your classroom/school
2.Build the capacity of others to implement the shifts
3.Communicate the importance of the CCSS
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Sample Ambassador Plan
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Ambassador
Role
Due Date
Status (red,
yellow, green)
Teacher
Ambassador
Strategies
Principal
Ambassador
Strategies
Other Players
to Involve
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Sample Ambassador Plan
• Example strategies for implementing the shifts in your classroom/school
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What? Who? When?
Identify and map out the standards you will be teaching and when throughout the school year
Teachers Before the next 9 week period
Review CCSS resources on www.engageny.com and plan a PD session for teachers around building CCSS-aligned lesson plans
Principals By next week
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Sample Ambassador Plan
• Example strategies for building the capacity of others to implement the shifts
•Teacher ambassador example: Principal ambassador ple:
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What? Who? When?Lead a professional learning community made up of all teachers within your subject area across all grades or all teachers across all subjects in a single grade to share ideas, best practices, effective lessons, resources, etc. around the CCSS
Teachers Next semester
Preview in-service days scheduled for the remainder of the year and find ways to incorporate planning sessions on the CCSS
Principals By next week
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Sample Ambassador Plan
• Example strategies for communicating the importance of the CCSS
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What? Who? When?Lead an effort to identify local businesses to attend a professional learning community meeting or parent workshop and discuss with teachers/parents the skills and characteristics they are looking for in graduates
Teachers Next semester
Train faculty on using parent/teacher conferences as an opportunity to promote the CCSS and the importance of getting our students college and career ready
Principals Next nine weeks
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Drafting Your Plans
• Goal: To draft a plan that includes 2-3 strategies in each of the 3 roles of the ambassador:1.Implement the shifts in your classroom/school
2.Build the capacity of others to implement the shifts
3.Communicate the importance of the CCSS
• On your own, use the sample plan to brainstorm your strategies (15 minutes)
• Share and discuss with your table (15 minutes)
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Common Themes?
• Group discussion (15 minutes):•What were the biggest challenges in drafting
your plan? •How did you address those challenges?•What new strategies did you build into your
plan? •What resources will you need to implement your
plan? What else will you need?
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Next Steps
• Next week:• Finalize your plan. • Share your plan with your principal/leadership
team.
• Before winter break:• Begin implementing your plan.• Share your plan with your NT/NTE.
• Ongoing:• Reflect on challenges/issues and refine plan as
needed.
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Thank You.