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Discovery Education Common Core Academy: Making the Common Core Make Common Sense in Your Classroom: A CCSS Academy for ELA and Content Area Teachers Johnna Weller, Ed.D. [email protected] Not-So-Common Leadership Strategies for Successful Common Core Implementation Karen M. Beerer, Ed.D. [email protected]
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Discovery Education Common Core Academy:. Making the Common Core Make Common Sense in Your Classroom: A CCSS Academy for ELA and Content Area Teachers Johnna Weller, Ed.D . [email protected] Not-So-Common Leadership Strategies for Successful Common Core Implementation - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Discovery Education Common Core Academy:Making the Common Core Make Common Sense in Your Classroom: A CCSS Academy for ELA and Content Area Teachers
Johnna Weller, [email protected]
Not-So-Common Leadership Strategies for Successful Common Core Implementation
Karen M. Beerer, [email protected]
Karen M. Beerer, Ed.D.28 years in public education:- classroom teacher- reading specialist- building principal- PD supervisor- curriculum director- assistant superintendent
Johnna Weller, Ed.D.20 years in education:- classroom teacher- reading specialist- literacy coach- curriculum supervisor- graduate-level instructor- assistant to the superintendent
The Good News!“Children’s books sales are up across the board, with increases ranging from 12% to 37% for paper books and 250% for children’s ebooks.”Source: US eBook Sales Were Up in the First Half of 2012, October 15th, 2012 by Nate Hoffelder
“U.S. Math, Science Achievement Exceeds World Average”Source: Ed Week, Published Online: December 11, 2012
And Some More… “U.S. fourth graders are definitely looking better. From 2006 to 2011, their math performance on TIMSS bumped up twelve points and now trails that of their counterparts in just seven other lands (in East Asia and Northern Ireland). Even more remarkable results come from PIRLS: Of the fifty-three systems participating, only four from abroad bested the U.S.’s score (Hong Kong, Russia, Finland, and Singapore). Further, Singapore is the only foreign system to surpass us at the “advanced” level, where an impressive 17 percent of American fourth graders can be found.”Source: Robelson, E., “U.S. Math, Science Achievement Exceeds World Average,” Education Week, December, 2012
You Knew It Was Coming:Total percentage of American adults who can’t understand the labels on their prescriptions.
46%
Community College students were shown a number line from -2 to 2 and asked to draw a line marking the approximate location of two numbers: -0.7 and 13/8.
21%
Total percentage of U.S. adults who are unable to read an 8th grade level book. 50%
U.S. adults able to pick out two items on a menu, add them, and calculate a tip. 42%
Total percentage of adults that have not been in a book store in the past 5 years. 70%
U.S. adults who could reliably calculate mortgage interest or those who could not calculate weekly salary when told an hourly pay rate.
20%
Total percentage of books started that aren’t read to completion. 57%
Source: Read Faster, Reading Stats, 2012; Richland, Stigler, & Holyoak, 2012); Department of Education's National Assessment of Adult Literacy
Jobs That Will Boom In 20201. Data Crunching2. Counseling and Therapy3. Scientific Research4. Computer Engineering5. Veterinarians6. Environmental and Conservation Science7. Healthcare fields8. Management9. Finance10. EntrepreneurshipSource: Newman, R. “10 Businesses that Will Boom in 2020,” U.S. News, September 2012
• Chief Information Officer• Career Counselor• Computerized 3 D Modeling
Machinist• Senior Technology Security• Molecular Beam Epitaxy
Technician and/or Engineer• Epitaxial Engineer• DNA Lab Technician• Nano-Technician• Endoscopy Technician• Bio-Engineer• Instrumentation Technician• Intermediate Biomedical
Engineer Technician
• Medical Ethicist• Sarbanes-Oxley Auditor• GEO Technical Technician• Quality Process Engineer• Fabrication Operator Wafer • Optical Maintenance Technician• Office Space Coordinator• NOC Specialist (Fiber Optics
Technician)• Telecommunications Engineer• Optical Manufacturing Technician• Controls Technician• Administrative Eligibility
Specialist• Computer Forensic Analyst
What Are The New Jobs?
The Common Core State Standards: Reach Higher, Learn Deeply
Can you guess which word appears in the ELA standards 122 times?
Sources: 61 timesResearch: 57 timesTechnology: 22 timesMultimedia: 22 timesDigital: 42 times
Evidence
The Changing Landscape of Literacy
Habits are Changing
The Changing Landscape of Literacy
Pedagogies are Changing
RECIPROCAL TEACHING INTERNETRECIPROCAL TEACHING
Questioning Questioning
Predicting Locating
Clarifying Synthesizing
Summarizing Communicating
[Palinscar & Brown, 1984] [Leu, Castek, Hartman, Coiro, Henry, Kulikowich & Lyver, 2005]]McVerry, Zawilinski, O’Byrne, 2009]
The Changing Landscape of Literacy
Assessments are Changing
The Changing Landscape of Literacy
Definitions and Standards are Changing
1985 2013
Definition
“Reading is the process of constructing meaning from written text.”
Definition
• Reading of multiple, multi-modal texts
• Reading in a specific context, for a specific purpose
• Disciplinary Literacy
Key Question:What about the Common Core
State Standards keeps you awake
at night?
What Do
Teachers Think
About the CCSS?
• How do we begin and how do we implement over the whole K-12 spectrum?• Lack of clarity on what direction I am supposed to take from this point
forward• Firm, specific examples of steps to take to reach the desired target and a
timeline to focus on.• The time to explore and learn the CCSS and the support needed to
implement them correctly.• We are unsure of what curriculum to look at and begin to pilot in order to
best meet the CCSS.• One of the biggest challenges is for all disciplines to understand that ELA is
not only limited to the "English" department, but that it is a skill set that all departments need to own.
• The time factor to juggle educating myself in CCSS while still teaching• How to prioritize what aspects of the CCSS to convey to the teachers in
terms of professional development.• Increasing knowledge of CCSS to support content-area teachers in the
implementation of CCSS in their courses. • Building the teacher and administrative capacity and understanding among
our leaders.
