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Transition to the Common Core State Standards Newton Public Schools 2013 Update

Where we are. Where we are going.

School Committee Presentation April 22, 2013

AKF April 2013

Curricular Standards Evolution 1993 MA Education Reform Act 1996 MA Curriculum Frameworks 2001 No Child Left Behind 2009 Common Core State Standards 2010 Race to the Top

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Common Core in Context

WHY? WHO? WHAT and HOW? WHEN? NEXT STEPS

A New Foundation for Student Success 3

Common Core State Standards Purpose

! Preparation ! Competition ! Equity ! Clarity ! Collaboration

Mission Statement

“The Common Core State Standards provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn, so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help them. The standards are designed to be robust and relevant to the real world, reflecting the knowledge and skills that our young people need for success in college and careers. With American students fully prepared for the future, our communities will be best positioned to compete successfully in the global economy.”

http://www.corestandards.org

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Developed by Broad Coalition Unlike previous attempts at common standards movements, there was support for the CCSS from a broad coalition of influential groups and states. Although the standards are national in scope, they are not “national standards”.

KEY Commitment Groups ! National Governors

Association (NGA) ! Council of Chief State

School Officers (CCSSO)

KEY Creation Group

“Achieve” A consortium group that has coordinated the creation of:

! Common Core State Standards (CCSS)

! Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career (PARCC)

! Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)

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Framework of Goals A framework of clear, shared goals and expectations for what knowledge and skills will help students succeed. (www.corestandards.org)

! Developed & Adopted: ELA/Literacy Mathematics

! Developed: Next Generation Science Standards

All adopting states agree to at least 85% of content. Can add up to 15% additional standards. MA added 15% to both ELA and MATH.

Publically unveiled April 9th. Massachusetts will publish a draft of this framework this summer.

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Adoption States

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Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks “Incorporating the Common Core State Standards”

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The Standards are Not…

“The Standards are not curriculum… Local teachers, principals, superintendents, and others will decide how the standards are to be met. Teachers will continue to devise lesson plans and tailor instruction to the individual needs of the students in their classrooms.” •  (National Governors Association Center for Best Practices & Council

of Chief State School Officers, 2012)

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! Increase in Nonfiction ! Emphasis on Literacy

in the Content Areas ! “Staircase” of Text

Complexity ! Focus on Evidence ! Includes Speaking and

Listening

! Greater Focus and Coherence

! Balance of Skills, Understanding, and Application

! Emphasis on Rigor through Mathematical

Practice

Key Instructional Shifts Shifts in ELA/Literacy Shifts in MATH

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English Language Arts and Literacy: Begin with the end in mind Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening, and Language: ! demonstrate independence and become self-directed

learners ! build strong content knowledge ! respond to the varying demands of audience, task,

purpose, and discipline ! comprehend as well as critique ! value evidence ! use technology and digital media strategically and capably ! come to understand other perspectives and cultures 11

English Language Arts and Literacy Goal - Building a Reading Life ! Children begin building their reading lives when adults read,

converse, and explore with them. Literacy learning is grounded in these early experiences. Oral language development is of critical importance.

! Literary and informational texts are both needed for building knowledge and appreciation of the world.

! Throughout all grades students continue to learn how to become skilled readers. Texts become increasingly more complex and students need to expand their knowledge of text structures, strategies, and vocabularies in order to do research and write from multiple sources. 12

English Language Arts and Literacy Goal - Building a Writing Life

Students write: ! opinions/arguments ! explanatory/informative

texts ! personal and

imaginative narratives

At all levels, the amount of time students spend writing is critical. Competence and confidence develop as volume, stamina, and independence increase.

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English Language Arts and Literacy Goal - Focusing on Opinion/Arguments

Students ! Read, listen to, or view “texts” at

varying levels of complexity ! Analyze and synthesize information

from these sources ! Present opinions/arguments that

include well-developed claims, substantive text-based evidence, and clear logical reasoning (CER).

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English Language Arts and Literacy Goal - Building an Interdisciplinary Approach to Literacy

! All content teachers share the responsibility for students’ literacy development. ! All teachers provide students with increased opportunities to read, research, discuss, and write about their ideas and opinions.

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English High School Alignment ! We have developed a 6-12 writing rubric

that defines expectations for student work. ! We have a clear focus on evidence and

challenging text.

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English High School Next Steps

! Incorporate non-fiction purposefully

! Make a handful of specific curricular changes

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"The fact that, for the first time, the U.S. has what is essentially a national curriculum, equivalent in quality to what is found in the highest scoring countries in the world, means that the focus of leadership can finally shift from arguing about what math to teach, to how best to teach the agreed upon content to all students." (Leinwand, 2012)

Mathematics

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Math Standards Goals

! Focus and coherence Focus on key topics at each grade level Coherent progressions across grade levels

! Balance of concepts and skills Content standards require both conceptual understanding and procedural fluency

! Mathematical practices Foster reasoning and sense-making in mathematics

! Rigor Level is ambitious but achievable

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Content Domain

P K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Counting and Cardinality

Operations and Algebraic Thinking

Number and Operations – Base Ten

Number and Operations – Fractions * * * The Number System

Ratios & Proportional Relationships

Expressions and Equations

Functions

Measurement and Data

Geometry

Statistics and Probability 20

Number Line Model

Meaning of Fractions

Equivalence

Addition and Subtraction

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Area Model

Equivalence

Multiplication and Division

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Contextualize and Decontextualize Grade 5 students at Underwood Exploring Parks and Playgrounds

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Math High School Alignment ! Joint Meetings of 8th and 9th grade

teachers to “assign” high school standards to 8th grade accelerated

! Joint North/South work this summer will examine Grade 9 and 10 alignment

! Mathematical Practices – PD Days, Problem Solving Work, Teacher Teams

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Math High School Challenges An Example from the High School Standards showing some of the challenges ahead:

Conceptual Category: Algebra – Creating Equations

Standard A-CED-1

Create equations and inequalities in one variable and use them to solve problems. Include equations arising from linear and quadratic functions, simple rational and exponential functions.

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Getting to the Core with Technology Integration ! CCSS Aligned Curriculum Units and Lessons

Workshops that support departments, grade levels or individual teachers as they identify, curate and develop technology-infused lessons.

Accessible, shared curriculum and instructional practices on OurNewton, digital learning platform.

! Professional Learning Training and collaboration to create professional learning resources and digital repositories for curriculum content.

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ELA Curriculum

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Math Curriculum

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Math Curriculum

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Teaching & Learning

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Impact on Teaching & Learning

! Reassessing and realigning our curriculum, instructional interventions and assessment practices

! Focusing on in-depth professional learning for both practice and content

! Aiming to ensure that classroom teachers have the time, tools, and support to make the standards come alive in their classrooms.

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MCAS Transitioning to PARCC “The MCAS has been in place for more than a decade now, and so we’re looking to develop the next generation of assessment, one that requires students to do more performance-based application of what they learn than the current MCAS does, to be able to write in each grade, to read text, do research and demonstrate their ability to make sense out of what they’ve read and digest information and report the information. These are all more advanced skills than the current MCAS emphasizes.”

April 2013, Mitchel Chester, MA Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education, and Chairman of PARCC Governing Board

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Next Steps for NPS “Moving Ahead with the Common Core” Continue to: ! Ensure teachers and administrators understand the

strengths of the key instructional shifts. ! Analyze how the CCSS affect the content areas. ! Plan and share updated and aligned curriculum units,

instructional activities, and common assessments. ! Maximize opportunities for collaboration and capacity

building through professional learning. ! Purchase appropriate instructional materials. ! Adopt technology for teaching and learning. ! Prepare for PARCC. 33

Implementation Timeline ELA and Math ! 2009 in development ! 2010 released to states (Adopted by Mass in July 2010)

! 2011 available to districts (March 2011)

! 2011 – 2013 pivotal time for implementation ! 2014 MCAS transitioning to CCSSèPARCC ! 2015 fully implemented K-12 in Massachusetts

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Sources and Resources CCSS Initiative http://www.corestandards.org

Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks http://www.doe.mass.edu/frameworks/ela/0311.pdf http://www.doe.mass.edu/frameworks/math/0311.pdf

DESE Resources for Implementing The Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks in 2012-2013 http://www.doe.mass.edu/candi/commoncore/Implementing.pdf

The Teaching Channel – Model CCSS Lessons http://www.teachingchannel.org/videos PARCC http://www.parcconline.org/ Sample Assessment Itemshttp://www.parcconline.org/samples/item-task-prototypes 35

Presenters Ann Koufman-Frederick, Deputy Superintendent for Teaching & Learning Anne Mikulski, K-8 English Language Arts Coordinator Brian Baron, English Department Head, NSHS Mary Eich, K-8 Mathematics Coordinator Steven Rattendi, Mathematics Department Head, NSHS

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