Common Core…… Activator/ Do Now: Complete the questions given to you by the greeter in reference to the Common Core!

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Unpacking The Common Core: Zapping “Not just another thing!”

Facilitators: Dr. Judy Ann DeLucia Cheryl Bromley-Jones

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Agenda 9:25 Activator 9:30 Welcome ~ Goals ~ Introductions ~ Name Tents 9:40 How Do We Get Our Teachers to Buy into the Common Core:– Power Point ~ Turn & Talks 10:10 Ticket to Leave 10:15 Next Steps ~ Wrap-Up

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Essential Question: How do we use protocols required by the new Supervision and Evaluation Regulations to result in educators incorporating the Common Core State Standards for ELA and Literacy across the curriculum?

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Key Ideas in the Common Core

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What & Why????? The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) outlines a distribution across

the grades of the core purposes and types of student writing. The 2011 NAEP framework, like the standards, cultivates the development of three mutually reinforcing writing capacities: writing to persuade, to explain, and to convey real or imagined experience. Evidence concerning the demands of college and career readiness gathered during development of the standards concurs with NAEP’s shifting emphases: standards for grades 9–12 describe writing in all three forms, but, consistent with NAEP, the overwhelming focus of writing throughout high school should be on arguments and informational/explanatory texts. It follows that writing assessments aligned with the standards should adhere to the distribution of writing purposes across grades outlined by NAEP.

Reading Grade 4- 50% literary 50% informational Grade 8- 45% literary 55% informational Grade 12- 30% literary 70% informational Writing(writing to persuade, to explain, to convey real or imaginary experience) Grade 4- 30% to persuade, 35% to explain and 35% to convey experience Grade 8- 35% to persuade, 35% to explain and 30% to convey experience Grade 12- 40% to persuade, 40% to explain and 20% to convey experience

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Literacy is defined as… Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening

and Language Shared responsibility within the schools! Whose responsibility is it?

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Shared Responsibility for Students’ Literacy Development

The standards insist that instruction in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language be a shared responsibility within the school. … The grades 6–12 standards are divided into two sections, one for ELA and the other for history/social studies, science, and technical subjects. This division reflects the unique, time-honored place of ELA teachers in developing students’ literacy skills while at the same time recognizing that teachers in other areas must have a role in this development as well.

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Shared Responsibility (continued) Part of the motivation behind the interdisciplinary

approach to literacy promulgated by the standards is extensive research establishing the need for students who wish to be college and career ready to be proficient in reading complex informational text independently in a variety of content areas. Most of the required reading in college and workforce training programs is informational in structure and challenging in content; postsecondary education programs typically provide students with both a higher volume of such reading than is generally required in K–12 schools and comparatively little scaffolding…. Seaside Educational Consultants

Food for thought……. Students advancing through the grades are expected to

meet each year’s grade-specific standards and retain or further develop skills and understandings mastered in preceding grades.

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Standards are more complex as they go from grade to grade. Here’s a selling point…… “One of the elements I like very much about these standards

is that they are manageable. They don’t involve a list of hundreds of skills to acquire in one school year. The standards are like a spiral staircase. That is, a standard in third grade builds on the same one in second, first and kindergarten. You can see a definitive continuum. Skills and strategies are repeated but at a more complex level as one goes up the grades.”

Lesley Mandell Morrow, Rutgers IRA

How Do We Advance the CCSS Turn & Talk…….. Should we use the CCSS implementation as a S.M.A.R.T.

goal? Do ‘mini observations’ focus on evidence of CCSS

implementation?

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From DESE – Karla Brooks Baehr

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No other school-based factor has as great an influence on student achievement as an effective teacher.

Effective leaders create the conditions that enable powerful teaching and learning to occur.

Therefore,

Ensuring that every child is taught by effective teachers and attends a school that is led by an effective leader is key to addressing the achievement gap.

Does this go hand in hand???

Implications of how the New Supervision and Evaluation Regulations will help advance “buy in” to the CCSS.

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Evaluation Timeline

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SY 2012- 2013

Implementation of 5 step Teacher Evaluation System

Including: SMART Goals Self Assessment

SY 2013- 2014 Rating of Impact of Student Learning Student/Parental/Community Feedback

5 Step Evaluation Cycle

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Continuous Learning

Goal Setting

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Continuous Learning

Every educator proposes at least 1 professional

practice goal and 1 student learning goal –

team goals must be considered

SMART Goals are…

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Specific and Strategic. In this sense, “specific” relates to clarity. “Strategic” relates to alignment with our mission and vision. Measurable. In most cases, this means “quantifiable”. Attainable. People must believe, based on past data and current capabilities, that success is realistic. Results-Oriented. This means focusing on the outcome, not the process for getting there. This refers to our desired end result, versus inputs to the process. Time-Bound. This refers to when will the goal be accomplished. Source: Blankstein, 2004, Failure is Not an Option, p. 91

Ticket to Leave: Activator/Do Now: Please review the answers on your Anticipation Guide for any changes to your

opinions as a result of this workshop. 1. What concerns you the most regarding the implementation of the CCSS? 2. How can MSSAA or Seaside Educational Consultants assist in “Unpacking the Common Core?”

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