Integrating EQuIP into Your State’s Common Core State Standards

Implementation Strategy

Tuesday, April 29th

3:00-4:00 p.m. ET

Alissa Peltzman, Vice President of State Policy & Implementation Support, AchieveSasheen Phillips, Director of EQuIP and OER, Achieve

Reflections from State & District Leaders

• Welcome and Introductions• Overview of EQuIP • Reflections from State and District

Leaders• EQuIP Resources and Tools• FAQ

Webinar Facilitators

Alissa PeltzmanVice President, State Policy and Implementation Support apeltzman@achieve.org

Sasheen PhillipsDirector, EQuIP and OERsphillips@achieve.org

EQuIP = Educators Evaluating the Quality of Instructional Products

• EQuIP builds on a collaborative effort of education leaders from Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island that Achieve facilitated. The outcome of that effort was the development of the “Tri-State Rubrics” and a quality review process designed to determine the quality and alignment of instructional lessons and units to the CCSS.

The objectives are two-fold:• Increase the supply of high quality lessons and units aligned to the CSSS that

are available to elementary, middle, and high school teachers as soon as possible; and,

• Build the capacity of educators to evaluate and improve the quality of instructional materials for use in their classrooms and schools.

Overview and Objectives of EQuIP

EQuIP Rubrics

• The EQuIP rubrics are designed to evaluate:— Lessons that include instructional activities and assessments aligned to the

CCSS that may extend over a few class periods or days— Units that include integrated and focused lessons aligned to the CCSS that

extend over a longer period of time— The rubric is NOT designed to evaluate a single task or activity

• The intent is not to endorse a particular curriculum, product or template.

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The Rubrics Organizes Criteria that Describe Quality Lessons/Units

Criteria that define the rubric are organized to describe quality in four dimensions.

Roles & Sample Uses

Role Sample uses

State education agency staff

• Vetting materials to post on websites• Providing quality control/quality assurance with vendors• Creating model units

Superintendents • Vetting materials to post on websites• Providing quality control/quality assurance with vendors• Creating model units

Instructional Leaders & Curriculum Coaches

• Guiding professional learning community conversations about selecting materials and providing feedback on lesson and unit plans

• Integrating into professional learning as a way to study the CCSS• Growing leaders by creating opportunities to create, vet and/or

share instructional materials• Producing useful data about the quality and alignment of

instructional materials and the capacity of educatorsClassroom Teachers • Guiding the creation of new materials

• Reviewing and refining existing materials

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Benefits of the EQuIP Quality Review Process

• Collaboration – The EQuIP Quality Review Process is a collegial process used to come to common understanding and agreement about the alignment and quality of instructional materials across classrooms, schools, districts and states.

• Consistency – When a set of common criteria are used, all students, regardless of zip code or classroom, have instructional materials that set the same high standards and expectations.

• Equity – Educators across classrooms, districts, and states identify and use instructional materials that set the same rigorous standards for all students.

• Efficiency and Cost Effectiveness – Instead of each teacher, school, or state developing all of its own instructional materials, states now have multiple partners among whom they can share resources.

• Innovation – As model lessons and units are reviewed, identified, and posted, educators share effective ways to organize and plan CCSS-aligned instruction.

Reflections from State & District Leaders

Name Position Organization

Merri Ann Drake Idaho Core Coach Idaho State Department of Education

Elissa Farmer Curriculum Specialist Seattle Public Schools

Terri King-Hunt Gifted Support Specialist Atlanta Public Schools

Linda Schoenbrodt Elementary Mathematics Program Specialist

Maryland Department of Education

Amy Youngblood Founder Eduoptimus

www.achieve.org/equip

EQuIP Peer Review Panel Materials Submission Process

• Purpose: Identify lessons and units that best illustrate the cognitive demands of the CCSS. The intent is not to endorse a particular curriculum, product, or template.

• Materials Submission: Individual, state, district, school or organization may submit instructional materials aligned to the CCSS for review by the EQuIP Peer Review Panel in order to provide educators across the country with various models and templates of high quality and CCSS-aligned lesson and unit plans.

• EQuIP Exemplars: Lessons and units identified as “Exemplars” and “Exemplars if Improved” will be posted on Achieve’s website and shared broadly.

http://lessons.achieve.org/

www.achieve.org/equip

Alissa PeltzmanVice President, State Policy and Implementation Support, Achieve

apeltzman@achieve.org or 202-419-1573

Sasheen PhillipsDirector, EQuIP and OER, Achieve

sphillips@achieve.org or 202-669-0143

Anne BowlesSenior Policy Associate, Achieve

abowles@achieve.org or 202-419-1553

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