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Common Core State Standards: So, What’s New?: The Shifts

Sandra AlbertiStudent Achievement Partnerswww.achievethecore.org@achievethecore

Integrating Common Core Expectations into Educator Support and Evaluation Systems

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Why are we doing this? We have had standards.

Before Common Core State Standards we had standards, but rarely did we have standards-based instruction.

Long lists of broad, vague statements Mysterious assessments Coverage mentality Focused on teacher behaviors – “the inputs”

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Principles of the CCSS

Fewer - Clearer - Higher

• Aligned to requirements for college and career readiness

• Based on evidence

• Honest about time


Implications

What implications do the CCSS have on what we teach?

What implications do the CCSS have on how we teach?

This effort is about much more than implementing the next version of the standards: It is about preparing all students for success in college and careers.


ELA/Literacy: 3 shifts

1. Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction

2. Reading, writing, and speaking grounded in evidence from text, both literary and informational


Non-Examples and Examples

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In “Casey at the Bat,” Casey strikes out. Describe a time when you failed at something.

In “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” Dr. King discusses nonviolent protest. Discuss, in writing, a time when you wanted to fight against something that you felt was unfair.

In “The Gettysburg Address” Lincoln says the nation is dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Why is equality an important value to promote?

What makes Casey’s experiences at bat humorous?

What can you infer from King’s letter about the letter that he received?

“The Gettysburg Address” mentions the year 1776. According to Lincoln’s speech, why is this year significant to the events described in the speech?

Not Text-Dependent Text-Dependent


Example?

EXAMPLES James Watson used time away from his laboratory and a set of models similar to preschool toys to help him solve the puzzle of DNA. In an essay discuss how play and relaxation help promote clear thinking and problem solving.


ELA/Literacy: 3 shifts

1. Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction

2. Reading, writing, and speaking grounded in evidence from text, both literary and informational

3. Regular practice with complex text and its academic language


Text Complexity

• Appendix A • Supplement to Appendix A • Appendix B

CCSS address what and how students read.


Mathematics: 3 shifts

1. Focus: Focus strongly where the standards focus.


Mathematics topics intended at each grade by at least

two-thirds of A+ countries

Mathematics topics intended at each grade by at least two-

thirds of 21 U.S. states

The shape of math in A+ countries

1 Schmidt, Houang, & Cogan, “A Coherent Curriculum: The Case of Mathematics.” (2002).


K 12

Number and Operations

Measurement and Geometry

Algebra and Functions

Statistics and Probability

Traditional U.S. Approach


Focusing attention within Number and Operations

Operations and Algebraic Thinking

Expressions and Equations

Algebra

Number and Operations—Base Ten

The Number System

Number and Operations—Fractions

K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 High School


Grade Focus Areas in Support of Rich Instruction and Expectations of Fluency and Conceptual Understanding

K–2 Addition and subtraction - concepts, skills, and problem solving and place value

3–5Multiplication and division of whole numbers and fractions – concepts, skills, and problem solving

6 Ratios and proportional reasoning; early expressions and equations

7 Ratios and proportional reasoning; arithmetic of rational numbers

8 Linear algebra, linear functions

Priorities in Mathematics




2. Coherence: Think across grades, and link to major topics


Coherence: Link to major topics within grades

Example: data representation

Standard 3.MD.3




2. Coherence: Think across grades, and link to major topics

3. Rigor: In major topics, pursue conceptual understanding, procedural skill and fluency, and application


Conceptual understanding of place value…?


Conceptual Understanding of Place Value


Conceptual Understanding of Fractions


Required Fluencies in K-6

Grade Standard Required Fluency

K K.OA.5 Add/subtract within 5

1 1.OA.6 Add/subtract within 10

22.OA.22.NBT.5

Add/subtract within 20 (know single-digit sums from memory)Add/subtract within 100

33.OA.73.NBT.2

Multiply/divide within 100 (know single-digit products from memory)Add/subtract within 1000

4 4.NBT.4 Add/subtract within 1,000,000

5 5.NBT.5 Multi-digit multiplication

6 6.NS.2,3Multi-digit divisionMulti-digit decimal operations


Mathematical Practices

1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.

3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.

4. Model with mathematics.

5. 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.

Don’t Bureaucratize


Power of the Shifts

• Know them – both the what and the why

• Internalize them

• Apply them to your decisions about Time Energy Resources Assessments Conversations with parents, students, colleagues

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Key Characteristics of Leading Organizations

Systems Thinking

Learning Organizations

Know – Really Know – the expectations


HOW DO NEW ASSESSMENTS CAPTURE THE CHANGES IN THE COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS?

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WHAT DOES ALL OF THIS MEAN FOR EDUCATOR EFFECTIVENESS?

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The Shifts in Action: Aligning Instructional Practice to the Requirements of the Common Core

• Successful implementation of the CCSS will require important shifts, not only in content but in instructional practice.

• The Standards alone will not yield the full impact of Common Core State Standards, teachers will do this.

• Current widely adopted teacher observation frameworks are not yet designed to fully address the requirements of the Common Core.

Supporting teachers and achieving the promise of the CCSS requires aligned systems of professional learning and evaluation


Guiding Principles for Tool Design

Invites shared responsibility

Scalable and informs continuous

improvement

Humane and fair in its substance and

timing

• Allows for clear and practical implementation• Enables evidence of teacher practice and student work to be gathered and

communicated to inform continuous development and provide information about implementation of the Common Core State Standards.

• Designed to be implemented in a respectful manner• Makes sure that teachers have the resources and support to do what is being

asked of them• Makes the full picture of expectations over time available and clear

Aligned with other tools and supports

for teachers

• Designed to inform a system that supports the ongoing development of teachers

• Linked to high quality tools and supports• Able to form the backbone of professional development

Aligned with the Common Core

• Designed to increase teachers’ understanding of and support for the Common Core State Standards

• Grounded in specific and measurable practices that support the Common Core State Standards

• Leads to appropriate alignment of expectations across the system (i.e., teachers, principals, schools)

• Invites teachers to take ownership in the development of the tool


Guiding Principles for Tool Design

Invites shared responsibility

Scalable and informs continuous

improvement

Humane and fair in its substance and

timing

• Allows for clear and practical implementation• Enables evidence of teacher practice and student work to be gathered and

communicated to inform continuous development and provide information about implementation of the Common Core State Standards.

• Designed to be implemented in a respectful manner• Makes sure that teachers have the resources and support to do what is being

asked of them• Makes the full picture of expectations over time available and clear

Aligned with other tools and supports

for teachers

• Designed to inform a system that supports the ongoing development of teachers

• Linked to high-quality tools and supports• Able to form the backbone of professional development

Aligned with the Common Core

• Designed to increase teachers’ understanding of and support for the Common Core State Standards

• Grounded in specific and measurable practices that support the Common Core State Standards

• Leads to appropriate alignment of expectations across the system (i.e., teachers, principals, schools)

• Invites teachers to take ownership in the development of the tool


Instructional Practice Evidence Guides

Instructional Practice Evidence Guides have been developed for ELA/Literacy (K-2, 3-5, 6-12) and Mathematics (K-8). The evidence guides are:

• Designed to guide assessment of effective integration of the Common Core State Standards shifts into instructional practice.

• Intended to support teachers in developing their practice, and to help coaches or other instructional leaders in supporting them to do so. For example, through:‒ Teacher self-reflection ‒ Teacher-to-teacher learning in PLCs, grade-level meetings or other

collaborative structures‒ Coaching and feedback from instructional coaches or leaders


Evidence Guide Features

• Evident during a lesson, evident over the course of the year• Content Specificity – Example ELA/Literacy

During a lesson• High quality text or texts at the center of the lesson• Questions and tasks are text dependent and text specific• All students are productively engaged in the work of the lesson using

evidence Over the course of a year

• Students encounter an appropriate balance and sequence of texts• Students are asked to practice the range of tasks the standards demand

• Students work demonstrates that students meet the grade-specific foundational skills and ELA standards


Actions

1. Ready

2. Fire

3. Aim


Continue to engage with the shiftsThe Essential WebQuest

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1. Shifts2. PD modules3. Close reading exemplars4. Areas of focus in mathematics5. Basal Alignment Project/Anthology Alignment Project6. Publishers Criteria

‒ K-8 Mathematics‒ High School Mathematics‒ K-2 ELA/Literacy‒ 3-5 ELA/Literacy‒ 6-12 ELA/Literacy

common core state standards: so, what’s new?: the shifts sandra alberti student achievement...

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