The Standards and Instructional Support Team

Standards-Inspired Planning: By Teachers for Teachers, The Future of

Instructional Design

Standards and Instructional Support: http://www.cde.state.co.us/standardsandinstruction

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All students, all standardsRigor- Systematic, methodical, and deep

thinkingRelevancy-Authentic, meaningful, real-world

and engaging workDisciplinary Literacy-Working, thinking,

talking, arguing as a…

The Colorado Academic Standards: Focus and Instructional Priorities

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The standards: Illuminate/illustrateRemind us Refocus us

The standards can:Validate Support Embolden Transform

The Colorado Academic Standards

…why we became educators….

…our efforts to create the comprehensive, challenging , connected, and choice-broadening educational experiences we want for all students.

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Colorado Academic Standards in ten content areas emphasize the whole child (Comprehensive Health and Physical Education; Dance; Drama and Theatre Arts; Mathematics; Music; Reading, Writing, and Communicating; Science; Social Studies; Visual Arts; World Languages)

Written by Coloradans for Colorado students

Heavy lift- especially for smaller/rural districts (CAS Summit 2012)

The Colorado Academic Standards

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District Sample Curriculum Project: Big Picture

From its beginning, the District Sample Curriculum Project has had a singular focus: to

build the capacity of teachers to use their content expertise and passion for student learning to create samples that support

teaching to student mastery of the Colorado Academic Standards.

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Standards

CurriculumAn organized plan of instruction that

engages students in mastering the

standards

Textbooks Instructional MaterialsResources

Standards and Curriculum

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Colorado’s District Sample Curriculum Project

Rationale/origins From its beginnings, the field of educators across the state has been the force

behind this project. This will continue to be the case as the project and its outcomes are:

Driven by the field Generated by the field Relevant to the field

As the next step in standards support for the state, the project is oriented around three fundamental goals:

Facilitating successful implementation of the CAS Helping build the capacity of Colorado educators to create curriculum materials

based on the standards Bringing together Colorado’s educators to create a variety of samples that reflect

the diversity of our school districts

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Today’s Goals

Explore the processes utilized to create the units Workshop trajectory (3-4 days with follow-up work editing and refining) Major steps in unit construction of the units Intentional curriculum design Connections with Academic and Teacher Quality Standards

Discuss the future of the District Sample Curriculum Project (DSCP)

Process Guide(s) Future Opportunities

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Colorado’s District Sample Curriculum Project

Project phases and major outcomesPhase One (Completed-Fall 2012): Colorado educators work together in grade level and content area teams to engage in

process of translating Colorado Academic Standards into curriculum samples Educators create unit overview samples based on the CAS for all subjects and grades Standards and Instructional Support team produces Process Guide for creating unit

overviews

Phase Two (Completed-Spring 2013): Standards and Instructional Support team conducts area workshops across the state to

build capacity around the process and products associated with the Project Hundreds of Colorado educators participate and begin process of adapting/modifying

existing samples and/or creating their own unit overviews

Phase Three (Fall 2013-Winter 2014): Colorado educators create full instructional units for all subjects and grades based on select

unit overviews created during Phase One

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Colorado’s District Sample Curriculum Project

Unit OverviewsParticipants 500+ educator participants in 5 workshops and 2 external review cycles 47 of 64 Colorado counties represented 70+ of 178 Colorado school districts represented

Products 700+ unit overviews- all content areas (k-12) and STEM (1st, 8th, high school) All samples coded to the CAS-Ensuring attention to all Evidence Outcomes (indicators of

mastery) Teacher/educator authorship and district affiliation noted at the bottom of every unit

overview

Postings Samples available in PDF and Word formats on the

Standards and Instructional Support website-by individual content area and grade level Process Guide and curriculum resources available on SIS website

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Teacher-Authored Samples

Instructional UnitsDuring a three-day workshop a team of educators created an instructional unit designed to provide teachers with support for using their professional judgment to teach to student mastery of the standards-based generalizations, content, and skills of one selected overview.

Teams were typically comprised of:

2 general education teachers (content specialists)

1 ELL teacher

1 Gifted and Talented teacher

1 Special education teacher

1 Title One teacher

100+ units developed and published on March 31, 2014 (one for each grade k-12 mathematics, reading, writing, and communicating, science, social studies, comprehensive health, visual arts, drama/theatre, dance, and music).

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Making Connections: Teacher Quality Standards and

Self-Assessment RubricI can identify the Teacher Quality Standards and Elements I utilized in Standards-Inspired Planning: By Teachers for Teachers, The Future of Instructional Design.

How can this process support you in demonstrating your effectiveness? Review the Teacher Quality Standards and Elements. Highlight or star the elements the relate to the process you used to develop curriculum. Write one a-ha that will support you in developing your curriculum unit next semester. Be sure your name is on your paper and turn it in to Jenny.

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Unit Development-Personal Financial Literacy

Moving Trains Strategy: an individual or organization who is highly motivated to lead, inspire, and elevate our profession by doing good work: work that is good in quality, good for the soul, and good for the world.

Spring 2015 Standards and Instructional Support team is building one mathematics

and one social studies unit in personal financial literacy for elementary grades

Units will be built in 3-day workshop this spring (dates TBD) following the processes you explored today

Participant-authors will receive a small stipend and will be recognized as authors on the CDE website and the published units

Interested Authors submit one sentence describing why you’d like to participate to Jenny on or before Friday!