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Connecting to the Common Core

Shannon Greve and Brooke Hutchison

IAEA ConferenceNovember 2, 2012

What Are The Common Core State Standards?

“Common Core State Standards define the knowledge and skills students should have within their K-12 education careers so that they will graduate high school able to succeed in entry-level, credit-bearing academic college courses and in workforce training programs.”

(NGA & CCSSO, 2010)

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Criteria Used to Develop CCSS

1. Fewer and clearer2. Aligned with college and work expectations3. Include rigorous content and application of knowledge

through higher order skills4. Build upon strengths and lessons of current state

standards5. Informed by top performing countries6. Evidenced and/or researched-based7. Realistic and practical for the classroom8. Consistent across all states

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The Common Core promotes access, delivery, and expectations.

Higher Order Thinking SkillsContentHabits of Mind

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The Common Core’s Habits of Mind

Demonstrate independence

Fifth grader Noah said, “I likedthat we got to build whatever wewanted. I liked the independentworking.”

Build strong content knowledge

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• Respond to demands of audience, task, purpose, discipline

Comprehend as well as critique

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“When students visit the Robie House as part of the extended school programs, they light up as they realizethe connections between their projects and the work of Frank Lloyd Wright.”

Shannon Greve Youth & Family Programs Manager

Value evidence Use technology & digital media

strategically Come to understand other perspectives &

cultures

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Implications for the work of community arts

providers

Chicago Public Schools recommends:TEXT, TEXT, TEXT

-- Text-based questions/activitiesCommunicationIntegration (Real-world)Critical-Thinking

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Shifts in English Language Arts

Balance of literary & informational texts Focus on text complexity Focus on argument &

informative/explanatory writing Focus on using evidence General academic and domain-specific

vocabulary Literacy across the curriculum

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Standards for math practice

Make sense of problems & persevere in solving them Reason abstractly and quantitatively Construct viable arguments & critique the

understanding of others Model with math Use appropriate tools strategically Attend to precision Look for and make use of structure Look for & express regularity in repeated reasoning

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Next Generation Science Standards

ConceptsPatterns – observation, organization, classification, questions about relationshipsCause & Effect – deciphering and predictionScale, proportion, and quantitySystems & models – use model to understand organized group of related components

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Energy & matter: flow, cycles, conservation

Structure & function – structure can determine function, or form can follow function. Frank Lloyd Wright said, “Form and function are one."

Stability & change – observing change over time

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A civilization can occur by way of science, and science can maintain a civilization up to a certain point. But culture is a way of making that way of life which is a civilization beautiful.

Frank Lloyd Wright, 1952

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“Yet even the most passionate advocate of standards will acknowledge that standards, by themselves, do not improve education. Standards do a great deal: they can set clear goals for learning for students and teachers, and establish guidelines for instruction and performance…. The standards are only the first step on the road to higher levels of learning.”

-Robert Rothman, “Five Myths About the Common Core State Standards”

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True study is a form of experience.

Frank Lloyd Wright, 1958

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More Resources

www.corestandards.org www.cps.edu/commoncore http://www.pta.org/

common_core_state_standards.asp

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IMLS: Museums for America Grant

The Museums for America funding will help the FLWPT reach five goals: 1)sustain our current in-school offerings2)develop a greater range of programs to address a broader range of learning standards and reach children with multiple learning styles3)expand our outreach4)increase the scope and size of our family programs5)establish a corps of educators with increased content knowledge, broader skills, and specific classroom experience.

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Architecture in Education

Basic Goals:Engage the public in educational experiences that foster an appreciation of architecture, design, and the legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright (FLW).Explore actively an element of FLW’s innovative design aesthetic.Raise awareness of the built environment and its relationship to the quality of life.Facilitate the child’s use of FLW design elements thru problem-solving and/or creative activities.Foster structured play experiences for children as integral to the creative process of FLW.

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Architecture in Education:

Illinois Standards

CC.K-12.W.R.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas. CC.K-12.SL.1 Participate effectively in a range of conversations…building on others’ ideas and

expressing their own clearly and persuasively. CC.K-12.SL.4 Present information and supporting evidence such that listeners can follow the line of

reasoning and the organization, development, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. CC.K-12.SL.6 Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and communicative tasks. CC.K-12.L.R.6 Acquire and use accurately a range of general academic and domain-specific words and

phrases. CC.K-12.MP.1 Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. CC.K-12.MP.2 Reason abstractly and quantitatively. CC.K-12.MP.4 Model with mathematics. CC.K-12.MP.5 Use appropriate tools strategically. CC.K-12.MP.6 Attend to precision. CC.K-12.MP.7 Look for and make use of structure. Social Science State Goal 16: Understand events, trends, individuals, and movements shaping the

history of Illinois, the United States, and other nations. Fine Arts State Goal 26 Through creating and performing, understand how works of art are produced. Fine Arts State Goal 27: Understand the role of the arts in civilizations, past and present.

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Architecture in Education

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Basic Goals:Engage the public in educational experiences that foster an appreciation of architecture, design, and the legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright (FLW).Explore actively an element of FLW’s innovative design aesthetic.Raise awareness of the built environment and its relationship to the quality of life.Facilitate the child’s use of FLW design elements thru problem-solving and/or creative activities.Foster structured play experiences for children as integral to the creative process of FLW.

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Little Builders: Illinois Standards

CC.K-12.SL.1 Participate effectively in a range of conversations…building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.

CC.K-12.L.R.6 Acquire and use accurately a range of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases.

CC.K-12.MP.1 Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

CC.K-12.MP.5 Use appropriate tools strategically. CC.K-12.MP.7 Look for and make use of structure. Fine Arts State Goal 26 Through creating and performing,

understand how works of art are produced. Fine Arts State Goal 27 Understand the role of the arts in

civilizations, past and present.

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