Greetings Common Ground Guiding Teams,We are looking forward to seeing everyone next week at the Common Ground for the Common Core Regional Convenings! We are pleased to bring you high quality professional development from experts in the field. The information below will help you prepare for your registered sessions You will find: dates, locations, and a “what to bring” list. On the second page you will find our “Common Core Spotlight” school for this edition, Hartly Elementary in the Capital School district. Great job Hartly Elementary!

Issue 8 ● January 21. 2014

What to Bring:

Math Sessions:

Laptops (if possible)Common Ground for the Common Core BinderBook- Common Core Mathematics in a PLC at Work- Leader’s Guide

ELA and Content Literacy Sessions:

Common Ground for the Common Core BinderLaptops are NOT needed

Tuesday January 28, 2014

ELA Secondary-New CastleLocation: Chase Center on the RiverfrontLobdell RoomFacilitator:Expeditionary Learning

ELA Elementary-New CastleLocation: Chase Center on the RiverfrontHarlan and Hollingsworth RoomFacilitator:Expeditionary Learning

Math Secondary- Kent/SussexLocation: Dover DownsDiamond RoomsFacilitator: Bill Barnes, Solution Tree

Math Elementary- Kent/SussexLocation: Dover DownsDiamond RoomsFacilitator: Beth Kobett, Solution Tree

Common Ground for the Common CoreWorkshop Dates and Locations

Thursday January 30, 2014

Content LiteracyLocation: Modern Maturity CenterEast Longwood and Crystal Trust BallroomsFacilitator:Expeditionary Learning

Wednesday January 29, 2014

ELA Secondary- Kent/SussexLocation: Dover DownsDiamond RoomsFacilitator:Expeditionary Learning

ELA Elementary- Kent/SussexLocation: Dover DownsDiamond RoomsFacilitator:Expeditionary Learning

Math Secondary-New CastleLocation: Chase Center on the RiverfrontHarlan and Hollingsworth RoomFacilitator: Bill Barnes, Solution Tree

Math Elementary-New CastleLocation: Chase Center on the RiverfrontPusey and Jones RoomFacilitator: Beth Kobett, Solution Tree

Webinar DatesMath Elementary: February 18 4:00-5:15Math Secondary: February 19 4:00-5:15

ELA Elementary K-2: February 19 4:00-5:30ELA Elementary 3-5: February 20 4:00-5:30ELA Secondary 6-12: February 25 3:30-5:00

Content Literacy 6-12: February 26 3:30-5:00

Feedback/Feed-Forward DatesKent/Sussex: March 11New Castle: March 12

SPOTLIGHT ON COMMON CORE IMPLEMENTATIONCapital School District: Hartley Elementary School

At Hartly Elementary, we have collaboratively developed a bulletin board display representing the impact of Common Core on our classroom instruction. The display allows teachers, parents, and students to get an inside look of classroom strategies and ideas for bringing the Common Core to life. The title of our board is “Common Core Standards in Action” with a focus on Lesson Objectives/I Can Statements, Having Collaborative Conversations, Finding Text Evidence to Support students’ answers, Vocabulary, Comparing Multiple Genres, Research and Inquiry, and Narrative, Informative, and Opinion Writing. Our hope is that our board will be interactive among all stakeholders, in that we are inviting comments and feedback that will initiate changes and revisions. We feel that it will never be a finished product. It will always be a process as it relates to where we are in this Common Core journey. As our depth of knowledge on Common Core implementation expands, we look forward to using the board to represent the learning that is taking place throughout our classrooms. ~Tammy Augustus, Principal