NACS/CCSS: Washoe’s Implementation Efforts

April 22, 2014

Linnea WoltersVickie CollaroAaron Grossman

All Resources are posted at www.coretaskproject.com

2011-2012

Popular implementation efforts

1. Purchase “CCSS” materials

2. Attend “CCSS” conferences

3. Follow the council of national experts

Nevada State Standards and CCSS

NSS (Then)

4th graders will 3.4.3

Explain the main idea supported by evidence

CCSS (Now)

4th graders will RI.4.2

Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text.

With

RI.4.10… a complex text

The Core Task Project

Started with 18 teachers with three imbedded principles:

1 Let’s honor our classroom peers/governance and allow them to hear the CCSS message unfiltered

2 The resources we use and promote are vetted, scalable and free

3 This takes time. We have to be patient.

The “instructional shifts”

http://achievethecore.org/content/upload/122113_Shifts.pdf

Lazarus & Feynman—Complex Text

Feynman hereLazarus here

The New Colossus, Lazarus

What is the rhyme scheme of the poem? What does that reveal about the structure of the poem?

The first eight lines of the poem compare two statues. What lines are about the first statue and what lines the second? What comparisons are made?

Creating our materials

Washoe partnered with Fresno and Anchorage to rewrite the questions and tasks matched to materials already in our Grade 3 through 5 classrooms

Read Aloud Project—a Kindergarten through 2nd grade effort

Social Studies Units

Board Approved “Secondary Literature Reading List”

Reading Standards 1 through 3

Conflict and Compromise in NV

Examples

Examples

The Core Task Project

Started with 18 teachers

Over 2000 Washoe teachers have trained with the instructional shifts and/or the CTP

Hundreds of teachers have taken themselves through the process nationally

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSYiwPJFMM8

For Classroom Teachers

Basal Alignment Project Edmodo Code F4Q6NM

Anthology Alignment Project Edmodo Code pkx4sp

Read Aloud Project Edmodo Code pkx52i

Close Reading Exemplars (here)

Social Studies Units—4th through 6th (here)

Social Studies CAR (here)

6th grade BAP (here)

Secondary Approved Reading List (here)

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