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Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org Building Instructional Capacity in the Age of Georgia Milestones CSRA RESA March 13, 2015 ELA/Literacy Georgia Department of Education Carolyn Waters, Program Manager Stephanie Sanders, Program Specialist 11/27/2020 1

Rigorous Academic Writing Doesn’t Have to Be Scary! Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org • Agenda • ELA: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going. • Getting Ready for Milestones: Teaching to the Test? • Cultivating Best Practices for Rigorous Academic Writing 11/27/2020 2

English Language Arts/Literacy Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org • Where we’ve been… • Where we’re going… 11/27/2020 3

Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org Revised Standards for English Language Arts (ELA) 11/27/2020 4

English Language Arts Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org • New Revised Standards APPROVED! • Standards to be implemented in 2015 – 2016 school year. • Revised standards can be accessed here: http: //www. gadoe. org/Curriculum-Instruction-and-Assessment/Curriculum-and-Instruction/Pages/default. aspx • No longer CCGPS. SBOE officially approved the name: Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE). • Teacher feedback will be honored by revising Teacher Guidance Documents to reflect the suggestions of teachers to “clarify, ” “define the terms, ” “provide simple illustrations of what is intended by each standard, ” and to “make those resources easy to access. ” 11/27/2020 5

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Teaching to the Test? Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org Teaching to the test does NOT mean • spending more time practicing test-taking • talking about the test instead of teaching/modeling • teaching decontextualized skills or knowledge • making the test the justification for teaching “X” (J. Burke & B. Gilmore. Academic Moves. 2015) 11/27/2020 7

Teaching to the Test? Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org Teaching to the test DOES mean • being intentional when choosing your texts, topics, tasks, tests, technology, techniques (By design) • using a full range of literacies through sustained inquiries • Using a progression of increasing complexity (Learning Progressions) • Putting a greater emphasis on depth over breadth (J. Burke & B. Gilmore, Academic Moves for College and Career Readiness, Grades 6 - 12, 2015) 11/27/2020 8

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The Most Challenging Standards? Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org In reading, students struggle with informational vs. literary text as well as increasingly complex texts. The most challenging standards are those that require synthesis skills, including those related to • determining central ideas or themes and summarizing details • analyzing text structure (RL 4, 5, 6 /RI 4, 5, 6) • integrating and evaluating content in diverse media and formats • analyzing similar topics and themes across multiple texts (3 RI 2, 5 RI 5, 6 RI 2, 7 RL 5, 6 RL 7, 8 RI 9) (2015 Curriculum Associates, LLC, ASCD Newsletter, Jan. 2015) 11/27/2020 10

The Challenge for Writing Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org In writing, students struggle with • synthesizing information from multiple texts • extrapolating a theme and putting it in writing • creating a thesis that reflects the common theme of presented, multiple texts • citing text evidence to support a student’s and/or the author’s argument or explanation • understanding the structure of a literary/informational texts and being able to analyze it 11/27/2020 11

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What do we do? 11/27/2020 Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org 13

Create a Common Culture Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org • Use a common language • Create a cohesive curriculum • Provide collaborative time for teachers to work together • Improve consistency within and across departments and grade levels • Become a more intentional teacher, team, or faculty • Establish a culture that accepts responsibility for teaching all skills students need to succeed on the tests in the classroom, in college or a career 11/27/2020 14

Key Shifts to focus on: Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org • Close reading strategies • Text-based evidence • Writing from sources (including multiple sources) • Academic language (analyze, synthesize, compare, evaluate) • Text complexity • Importance of argument (claim/counterclaim) • Emphasis on nonfiction (informational text) 11/27/2020 15

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Georgia Milestones… 11/27/2020 Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org 17

Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org Reviewing Sample Questions Using released items to strategically assess students’ understanding and/or misconceptions. 11/27/2020 18

New York Grade 3 What is the subtitle? “Sea Turtles” Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org What 2 details can I use? Why are they suited for the sea? Why does the information in paragraph 5 belong under the heading “Suited for the Sea”? Use two details from the passage to support your response. How do I respond? https: //www. engageny. org/resource/new-york-state-common-core-samplequestions 11/27/2020 19

Close Read Para. 5 “Suited for the Sea” Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org But sea turtles are more than just great swimmers. Some of them are great divers. The leatherback can dive more than a thousand feet deep, looking for food. That’s the length of three football fields. And its deepest dives can be three times deeper than that! 1. Draw a circle around the paragraph. 2. Highlight unusual words and discuss meaning 3. Write the heading at the top of the paragraph 4. Write your questions in the margins 5. Underline two details 6. Check your “To Do” List. Did you complete it? 11/27/2020 20

Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org Use the Instructional Framework to Model How to Read the Prompt Teachers must teach students how to read the prompt: • Show them • model it Each Teacher student • Whole class does… • Small group Small Whole • Individual groups class do… does… • Check for understanding 11/27/2020 21

Make a “To Do” list TO Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org DO • Look for • paragraph 5 • the Heading: Write it here ________ • why the info in the paragraph fits heading • two details that support your answer • Write • your answer • Read (close read) • Find • Think 11/27/2020 1. 2. 22

New York Grade 6 • Excerpt from We Were There, Too! 11/27/2020 Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org • How does the information in lines 1 through 6 relate to the information in lines 7 through 15? Use two details from the article to support your response. • In lines 38 and 39, the author states, “Anna Green Winslow got an education, all right – just not the one her father intended. ” Explain what the author means by this statement. Use two details from the article to support your response. 23

Sample Released Item New York, Grade 8 “The Inheritance of Tools” Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org by Scott Russell Sanders Prompt for Writing What character traits of the grandfather are revealed through his use of the hammer? Use two details from the passage to support your answer. https: //www. engageny. org/resource/new-york-state-common-core-sample-questions 11/27/2020 24

Sample Released Item (EOC) Kentucky, Grade 10 “Women Like Us” Adapted from Edwidge Danticat’s short story “Women Like Us” Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org Prompt for writing Write an essay in which you explain how the author’s use of literary elements in this passage helps convey the significance that writing holds for the narrator. Be sure to use evidence from the passage to support your ideas. You may include references to other texts or authors if you feel these will help you explain your ideas about this passage. http: //education. ky. gov/AA/items/Documents/EOC%20 CR%20 English%2010%20 Women%20 Like%20 Us%20 prompt%20 and%20 rubric. pdf 11/27/2020 25

Who wrote this? Write an essay. Explain how the author’s use of literary elements in this passage helps convey the significance that writing holds for the narrator. Why was this written? Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org Literary Devices? What is the author’s point of view? 11/27/2020 26

Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org Instructional Strategies How do we prepare our students for the analysis of informational texts? 11/27/2020 27

Document Analysis (Informational Text) Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org 1. What do you see? Draw a box around everything you see? 2. Write the ? on the top of the box 3. Mark the doc (letter/number); source; note(s) and caption(s) with an 4. Examine the source(s) 5. Consider the notes and captions 6. Close read of document 11/27/2020 28

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Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org Instructional Strategies Understanding Standards and Rubric(s) 11/27/2020 31

Analyzing the Rubric What do the standards for writing mean for student work? Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org W 1, W 2, W 3 11/27/2020 32

Grade 5 EOG Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org • Aligned to ELACC 5 W 2 d Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly. Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic. Now that you have read “The Center” and “School Pride Day” and answered a question about what you read, create a plan for your informational essay. Think about ideas, facts, definitions, details, and other information and examples you want to use. Think about how you will introduce your topic and what the main topic will be for each paragraph. Be sure to identify the sources by title or number when using details or facts directly from the sources. Write an informational essay detailing the similarities and differences in how the schools are described in each of them. 11/27/2020 33

Grade 5 EOG Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org Exemplar Response The two texts describe the school similarly, but there also differences. The first text focuses more on introducing a student to things he or she should know about the school, while the second text focuses more on the accomplishments of the school. The first text prepares a student for life in the school. It describes a favorite after-school club that cleans up the campus. It also talks about how popular the sports teams are and things to remember when using the cafeteria. It also prepares the student for how "crazy" it can be in the halls. The second text is more focused on all of the things that the school has accomplished. It celebrates the chess team's win and the orchestra's recognitions. It describes the pride students and teachers have in the school, and it brags a bit about the community support and mini-libraries. Both texts show the good things the school has to offer. They also introduce students to the school so that they will feel more comfortable. While they focus on different things, the texts both represent the school positively. 11/27/2020 34

Grade 8 EOG Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org • Aligned to ELA CC 8 RL 2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text. What is the MAIN theme of "Tranquility Falls"? Use details from the story to explain its development over the course of the text. 11/27/2020 35

Grade 8 EOG Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org Exemplar Response The main theme of the story is that your actions can be harmful and steps must be taken to undo any damage you may have done. Brayden first lets his anger get the best of him, and he chooses to throw his juice pouch into the river out of frustration. After hearing a story about a bear who realizes his actions have polluted a river, Brayden admits he's made a mistake and fetches the juice pouch out of the water. 11/27/2020 36

Grade 8 EOG Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org Exemplar Response The main theme of the story is that your actions can be harmful and steps must be taken to undo any damage you may have done. Brayden throws his juice pouch in the river but then gets it back because he realizes he was wrong. 11/27/2020 37

Grade 8 EOG Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org Exemplar Response The main theme of the story is that your actions can be harmful and steps must be taken to undo any damage you may have done. 11/27/2020 38

American Literature and Composition EOC Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org • Aligned to ELA 11– 12 W 3 b Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences. b. Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description, reflection, and multiple plot lines, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters. Willa Cather wrote the story using third person point of view. How would the excerpt be different if Ralph were narrating? Rewrite the beginning of the story from Ralph’s perspective. 11/27/2020 39

American Literature and Composition EOC Exemplar Response Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org “Doughnuts are ready!” Mahailey is calling from the kitchen. I can’t believe that it is time to get up already, I think as I tug on the blue thermal blanket draped across the foot of my bed. In my hurry to go to bed last night, I must have left my bedroom window open. I have to get up and close that window, but I sure wish that there was some way to do that task from the warmth of my bed. Maybe I will just invent self-closing windows. I am sure there are many lazy people like me who don’t want to leave the warmth of their beds. This could be the ticket to a bright future for me, a future that does not involve milking cows or repairing farm implements. I hear thumping sounds coming from Claude’s bedroom next door. That brother of mine certainly wants to prevent anybody from sleeping. Clumsy Claude! Last night at the circus, he bolted from his seat just as my friend Cecil was walking down the aisle with a bag of buttered popcorn. Claude collided with Cecil, creating a popcorn shower over the people sitting nearby. Carolyn Jones, Cecil’s fifteen-year-old cousin who is visiting from Augusta, had popcorn stuck in her curly brown hair. I am sure Carolyn will long remember picking the buttery kernels from her hair. 11/27/2020 40

American Literature and Composition EOC Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org Exemplar Response Mahailey just yelled upstairs to tell me that breakfast is ready. I am going to ignore that call for just a few minutes and warm myself up. Last night I must have forgotten to close the bedroom window. This morning my bedroom is quite chilly. If only there could be a way to close the window without having to get up out of bed. Maybe I can invent a way of doing that. I imagine that there are other people like me who dislike getting out of a warm bed. This may just be the invention that will make me rich! I hear sounds coming from Claude’s bedroom. He must be moving his clumsy body around just so I can’t get any more sleep. That brother of mine sure knows how to make a bad impression. Last night at the circus he bumped into Cecil and made him spill his popcorn all over the people who were sitting nearby. Cecil’s pretty cousin from Augusta had to pick popcorn from her hair. 11/27/2020 41

American Literature and Composition EOC Exemplar Response – Aligned to ELA 11– 12 RL 1 Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org I hear Mahaileys voice telling me that breakfast is ready. I don’t want to get up out of bed because it is to cold in my bedroom. I accidentally left my window open last night. I sure wish that there was a way to close the window without getting out of bed. Maybe I will use some spare parts to try to make something to do that job. Claude is moving around in his room. He sure is a clumsy brother. Last night he made Cecil spill his popcorn at the circus. It landed on many people who are sitting nearby. A pretty girl had popcorn stuck in her hair. 11/27/2020 42

American Literature and Composition EOC Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org Exemplar Response Breakfast is ready, but I don’t want to get out of bed. My bedroom is cold. I wish that I had close the window last night. My brother is very clumsy and loud. He caused a boy to spill his popcorn at the circus. 11/27/2020 43

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Assessment Resources NAEP: Writing Framework for 2011 Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org http: //www. nagb. org/content/nagb/assets/documents/publications/frameworks/writing 2011. pdf PARCC: Sample Items for ELA/Literacy https: //www. parcconline. org/samples/ELA Smarter Balance: Sample Items and Performance Tasks http: //www. smarterbalanced. org/sample-items-and-performance-tasks/ Florida Department of Education: FCAT 2. 0 Sample Questions and Answer Key Books http: //fcat. fldoe. org/fcat 2/fcatitem. asp Kentucky Department of Education: Sample Test Items http: //education. ky. gov/AA/items/Pages/default. aspx 11/27/2020 45

Georgia Department of Education Resources Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org Formative Instructional Practices (FIP) http: //www. gadoe. org/Curriculum-Instruction-and. Assessment/Pages/Georgia. FIP. aspx Formative Item Bank in OAS http: //www. gadoe. org/Curriculum-Instruction-and-Assessment/Pages/OAS -Resources. aspx EOC Assessment Guides http: //www. gadoe. org/Curriculum-Instruction-and-Assessment/Pages/Georgia. Milestones-End-of-Course-Assessment-Guides. aspx 11/27/2020 46

Georgia Department of Education Resources Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org • EOC Assessment Guides http: //www. gadoe. org/Curriculum-Instruction-and-Assessment/Pages/Georgia-Milestones-End-of. Course-Assessment-Guides. aspx • EOG Assessment Guides http: //www. gadoe. org/Curriculum-Instruction-and-Assessment/Pages/Georgia-Milestones-End-of. Grade-Assessment-Guides. aspx 11/27/2020 47

Ga. DOE Assessment Webinars Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org Assessment Program Updates 2014 -2015 – Georgia Milestones (Pt. 1) Recording: https: //sas. elluminate. com/mr. jnlp? suid=M. 0022562966 FC 107 A 2 B 357 D 4658 DE 06&sid=2012003 Assessment Program Updates 2014 -2015 – Georgia Milestones (Pt. 2) Recording: https: //sas. elluminate. com/mr. jnlp? suid=M. 4472 ECC 921 A 30 BB 376 F 44 AD 2 E 2715 D&sid=2012003 11/27/2020 48

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Contact the Ga. DOE ELA Team Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe. org Carolyn Waters, ELA Program Manager cwaters@doe. k 12. ga. us Stephanie Sanders, ELA Program Specialist ssanders@doe. k 12. ga. us 11/27/2020 51