Elementary Curriculum Update 2013-14
Feb 22, 2016
ElementaryCurriculum Update 2013-14
Common Core/
Essential Standards
Collaborative Teams
Formative Assessment
Learning Centered
1. What do students need to know?
2. How will they learn it?
3. How will we know they’ve learned it?
4. What will we do if they don’t learn it?
5. What will we do if they already know it?
Mission, Vision, and Values Data-driven Decision-making
PDSA Aligned Strategic Plans
I-SS Model to Raise Achievement & Close Gaps
Instructional Facilitator Support
Curriculum Guides
BaselineBenchmark
Teams for all content areas
Specialists creating strategy resources for CG
Using student data for revisions
RtI and IMPACT grant
2013 Summer Institutes | Changing Teacher Practice • Changing Student Outcomes
Classroom Assessments:Formative and Diagnostic Information CLASSROOMS
Balanced Assessment System
Formative Assessment(Classroom)
Benchmark Assessment(Classroom, School, District)
Summative Assessment(Classroom, Statewide)
Balanced Assessment System
lIt is not the assessment itself, it’s how you use the results!Diagnostic Assessment: Identifies specific skill gaps
Formative Assessment: What learning comes next for this student at this point in time?
Benchmark Assessment: How are students progressing? How well is this program working?
Summative Assessment: How are schools and district progressing? How is the state progressing?
NCDPI Updates
Implementation of HomeBase• Powerschool replaces NCWise• Schoolnet replaces DASH and provides a tool for lesson
resources, lesson planning, and online assessment• TNL
Read to Achieve legislation implications for 2013-14:• 3rd grade begins portfolio process (standards based
assessment) for below grade level students mid-year (specifics released in Sept.)
• Retest, Summer school (2014), and possible 3rd to 4th transition class for 2014-15 school year
K-3 Office of Early Learning Established• K entry assessment in 2014-15
Curriculum Guide 101
Anchor Standards8 Math Practices
“Year-At-a-Glance”Focus Areas for MathVocabulary
UnpackingLearning Targets & Criteria for Success Resources
Structures of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
Curriculum Support DocumentsWhy were the support documents
created?•To make existing research-based strategies accessible and correlated to the curriculum guides
•Looking at the Reading 3D and AIMSweb data, gaps in 3rd, 5th, and 8th grade determined the starting point for developing the support documents.
English Language Arts
What’s new?• Resources added for 3rd and 5th grade gaps in reading
(curriculum support documents)• Assessments updated to reflect a scaffolding of questions from
more "tied" to the text, to "outside" of the text• Moving from a "checklist" Year-at-a-Glance document to
cohesive units, focusing on standards that fit and teach well together
• No Reading baselines in K-3; Reading 3D will fulfill this beginning of the year diagnostic data need
• I-SS district Literacy Plan
Math
What’s new?• Developed "Key Skills for Success" - prerequisite math skills
that enable students to be successful with your grade level's Common Core Standards
• Baseline assessments check for mastery of the Key Skills• Added Math Structures resource to the Curriculum Guide• DPI Math Wikispace
Writing & Talking in Math
My definition of a good teacher has changed from “one who explains things so well that students understand” to “one who gets students to explain things so well they can be understood”.
~Steven C. Reinhart
Science
What’s new?
Column next to the Learning Targets and Criteria for Success labeled Resources.
We added websites, experiments, and informational texts to use to support your delivery of the content.
What's New?
• We reordered some of the sequencing based on the feedback.
• We eliminated the stretch on the assessments. • We included another level on the rubrics for the open-ended
item.
Things to Keep in Mind• Assessment Resources (DPI)• Vocabulary (DPI)
Social Studies
What’s new?
Social Studies teams worked to align literacy resources to SS content to help you integrate SS standards into your literacy instruction.
What about your grade level?
• Watch your grade level's video on the C&I webpage
• What items do you and your team need to keep on your PLC’s agenda this year?
• How will you use curriculum guides, assessments, and resources to plan together?
• Look through your CG and beginning planning