Common Core State Standards What you need to

Common Core State Standards What you need to know Cambrian School District

State Adoptions • 45 states, three territories and the District of Columbia • California State Board of Education (SBE) - August 2010 § Established the Academic Content Standards Commission (ACSC) composed of members appointed by the Governor and the Legislature; the majority were current public school elementary or secondary classroom teachers. § The ACSC was authorized to make recommendations to the SBE to approve or disapprove the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), and to supplement those standards with up to 15 percent additional standards. § The ACSC met four times in June and July 2010, and provided its recommendations to the SBE on July 15, 2010. The SBE voted unanimously to adopt the recommendations of the ACSC on August 2, 2010. 2

A Multi-State Led Effort COUNCIL OF CHIEF STATE SCHOOL OFFICERS (CCSSO) & NATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES (NGA CENTER) JUNE 2010 US Department of Education and the federal government had no role in the development of the common core state standards and will not have a role in their implementation. 3

What are the Common Core State Standards? The Common Core State Standards set grade-by-grade learning expectations for students in grades K-12 for Mathematics and for English Language Arts/Literacy. While California has had standards for more than 15 years, this set of standards is more focused on preparing students for success in college and career. They set clear, consistent and high learning goals. 4

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Common Core: It Takes All of Us! • • • 7 Teachers Administrators Students Parents Community members

What Should I Expect with CCSS? • More time to focus on preparing students for college and career readiness. 8

Instructional Shifts in Language Arts 1) Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction and informational text in addition to literature 2) Reading and writing grounded in evidence from the text 3) Regular practice with complex text and its academic vocabulary (words like commit and synthesize) 4) Writing to inform and structure an argument, not only writing stories 9

Shifts in Language Arts Standards Grade 3 Expectations 1997 Language Arts Standards Common Core Language Arts Standards Reading 1. 6 Use sentence and word context to find the meaning of unknown words. Reading Literature 3. 1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. Language 3. 4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple meaning words and phrases based on grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. 10

Shifts in Language Arts Assessments 11

Shifts in Language Arts Assessment 12

How can you help your child in literacy? 1. Ask your child specific questions about what they read. 2. Encourage children to read, then write and speak about nonfiction text: A. Newspapers B. Magazines C. Biographies D. Science 3. Encourage children to research topics of interest and read series that relate to a central topic. 4. Have your child follow step by step instructions or a set of directions in order to accomplish a task, such as building a sandcastle or operating a game.

The Shifts in Mathematics 1. Focus: Focus deeply on concepts prioritized in standards; build strong foundational knowledge. 2. Coherence: Think across grades, and link to major topics 3. Rigor: In major topics, pursue conceptual understanding, procedural skill and fluency, and application with equal intensity

Traditional U. S. Approach K 12 Number and Operations Measurement and Geometry Algebra and Functions Statistics and Probability 15

The Common Core Standards Approach Number and Operations and Algebraic Thinking Expressions → and Equations Number and Operations— Base Ten → K 1 2 3 4 Algebra The Number System Number and Operations— Fractions → → → 5 6 7 8 High School 16

Key Areas of Focus in Mathematics 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– 5 Multiplication 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 17

Shifts in Mathematics Assessment Released Test Items CST Common Core Assessment 18

Shifts in Mathematics Assessment Released Test Items CST Common Core Assessment 19

How can you help your child in math? 1. Help children practice their addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts. 2. Encourage children not to give up while solving problems, to build stamina and develop their critical thinking skills. Don’t give them the answers - ask them to think of different ways they can solve problems. 3. Have children illustrate the math they were thinking in their head and discuss it out loud. 4. Have children apply their math knowledge to a realworld scenario at home, such as doubling a recipe or calculating the area of a room.

Smarter Balance Assessment A Dramatic Shift

Assessment Two groups working in collaboration to create a Common Core-aligned assessments in English and math: 1. Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) 2. Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) California is a governing member of the SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium – 25 states are members of this consortium – Represents 48% of K-12 students in US 22 22

Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Requirements • Create more rigorous tests measuring student progress toward “college and career readiness” • Have common, comparable scores across member states and across consortia • Provide achievement and growth information to help make better educational decisions and professional development opportunities • Assess all students except those with “significant cognitive disabilities” • Administer assessments online, with timely results 23

Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium K-12 Common Core State Standards All Students Leaving High School College & Career-Ready Summative Assessments, 2014 -15 Ø Benchmarked to college and career readiness Interim Assessments Ø Flexible, open, used for actionable feedback Formative Assessment Tools & Processes Ø Teacher resources to improve instruction 24

Transitioning to the Common Core: A Phase-in Process Awareness Building readiness 25

Transitioning to the Common Core: A Phase-in Process Awareness Transition Building readiness Moving to the new standards 26

Transitioning to the Common Core: A Phase-in Process Awareness Transition Building readiness Moving to the new standards Implementation Making meaning 27

Transitioning to the Common Core: A Phase-in Process Awareness Transition Building readiness Moving to the new standards Implementation Making meaning Transformation Changing teaching & learning 28

“These Standards are not intended to be new names for old ways of doing business. They are a call to take the next step. It is time for states to work together to build on lessons learned from two decades of standards based reforms. It is time to recognize that standards are not just promises to our children, but promises we intend to keep. ” Introduction to the Mathematics Common Core Standards 29

Additional Resources Council of the Great City Schools Parent Roadmaps: • Math http: //www. cgcs. org//site/Default. aspx? Page. ID=244 • ELA / Literacy http: //www. cgcs. org/Page/328 • National Parent Teachers Association (PTA) http: //pta. org/parents/content. cfm? Item. Number=2583 • Achieve the Core www. achievethecore. org • Common Core State Standards Text Exemplars http: //www. corestandards. org/assets/Appendix_B. pdf 30