Common Core Standards Implementation

ELA/Literacy and Mathematics

Understand the Change

Be the Change

How to Change

6-month objectives: ELA• Materials: Shift in what students are reading –

within existing materials– Reading lists include a balance of literature and

informational text• Teachers: Shift in student questions– Shift to 80% of questions asked as text-dependent

• Students: Evidence of close reading– Close encounters with sufficiently complex text

demonstrated through writing to inform or argue using evidence from text

Shift ChecklistInformational Text/ Building the Knowledge Base

Informational Text Building the Knowledge Base

Staircase of Complexity Complexity Range and Quality Cultivating Students Ability to Read

complex Texts Independently Reading Complex Texts w/ Fluency

Text Based Answers/ Analysis High Quality Text Dependant Questions & Tasks

Academic DiscussionsWriting from Sources Practice with Short, Focused Research

Argument and Informational Writing Using Multimedia & Technology Grammar and Language Conventions

Academic Vocabulary Academic Vocabulary

6-month objectives: Math• Materials: Focus– Clear indication of fewer concepts at each grade

level represented by curriculum documents, district formative assessments

• Teachers: Identify focus areas and fluencies of grade level– Shift in time spent on areas of in-depth instruction

• Students: Demonstrated fluency and understanding– Display fluencies for the grade level and understand

focus areas

GradePriorities in Support of Rich Instruction and Expectations of Fluency and Conceptual Understanding

K–2 Addition and subtraction, measurement using whole number quantities

3–5 Multiplication and division of whole numbers and fractions

6 Ratios and proportional reasoning; early expressions and equations

7 Ratios and proportional reasoning; arithmetic of rational numbers

8 Linear algebra

Priorities in Mathematics

Math Areas of Priority

Mathematical Practices1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.

3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.

4. Model with mathematics.

5. Use appropriate tools strategically.

6. Attend to precision.

7. Look for and make use of structure.

8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

Key FluenciesGrade Required Fluency

K Add/subtract within 5

1 Add/subtract within 10

2Add/subtract within 20Add/subtract within 100 (pencil and paper)

3Multiply/divide within 100Add/subtract within 1000

4 Add/subtract within 1,000,000

5 Multi-digit multiplication

6Multi-digit divisionMulti-digit decimal operations

7 Solve px + q = r, p(x + q) = r

8 Solve simple 22 systems by inspection

How to Get ThereMATH• Materials

– Focus

• Teachers– Know deep understanding

and fluencies

• Students– Demonstrate fluencies,

depth of understanding

ELA/Literacy• Materials

– Literature/Literary Non Fiction

• Teachers– Identify and Create Text-

dependent Questions

• Students– Demonstration of close

encounter with text through writing

1. Shift the practice of teachers, principals, instructional leaders2.Regularly visit schools3.Collect evidence of data and revise actions accordingly