Common Core State Standards

Moore Public SchoolsFall 2011

What are the Common Core State Standards? Aligned with college and work expectations Include rigorous content and application of knowledge

through high-order skills Build upon strengths and lessons of current state

standards Internationally benchmarked so that all students are

prepared to succeed in our global economy and society State led – coordinated by NGA Center and CCSSO

Standards Development Process

College and career readiness standards developed in summer 2009

Based on the college and career readiness standards, K-12 learning progressions developed

Multiple rounds of feedback from states, teachers, researchers, higher education, and the general public

Final Common Core State Standards released on June 2, 2010

Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers

Consortium of 25 states

PARCC

PARCC States

Governing States

Participating States

While the Common Core State Standards are a critical first step, they alone will not bring about the instructional changes necessary to improve student achievement and attainment

Creating common assessments grounded in common standards is the logical next step

Assessments aligned to the Common Core will help ensure the new standards truly reach every classroom

Why Common, Next-Generation Assessments?

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Include “through-course” assessments in each grade in addition to end-of-year tests to produce a more complete picture of student performance

Provide a common measure of college and career readiness, including a college-ready cut score

Leverage new technologies in assessment and reporting to get timely and actionable student data to educators and parents

PARCC Assessment will…

Include a range of item types that allow for the assessment of higher-order skills and measure the CCSS in full.

Measure students’ mastery of CCSS and mitigate challenges associated with student mobility by ensuring students will have the same expectations wherever they live

PARCC Assessment will…

2010-11 School Year: Launch and design phase

2011-12 School Year: Development begins

2012-13 School Year: First year pilot/field testing and related

research and data collection

2013-14 School Year: Second year pilot/field testing and

related research and data collection

2014-15 School Year: Full operational administration of

PARCC assessments

Summer 2015: Set achievement levels, including college-ready

performance levels

PARCC Timeline for Implementation

STANDARDS FORENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS

&LITERACY IN HISTORY/SOCIAL STUDIES,

SCIENCE, AND TECHNICAL SUBJECTS

JUNE 2010

Grade Literary Informational

4 50% 50%

8 45% 55%

12 30% 70%

NAEP Framework for Explicit Reading Instruction

Design and Organization

Strands Reading Literature Reading: Informational Text Writing Speaking and Listening Language

An integrated model of literacy

Technology requirements blended throughout

PASS Headings Reading / Literature Writing, Grammar, Usage,

Mechanics Oral Language / Listening and

Speaking Visual Literacy

Reading

Comprehension (standards 1−9) Standards for reading literature and informational texts Strong and growing across-the-curriculum emphasis onstudents’ ability to read and comprehend informational texts Aligned with NAEP Reading framework

Range of reading and level of text complexity(standard 10, Appendices A and B) “Staircase” of growing text complexity across grades High-quality literature and informational texts in a range of genres and subgenres

Grade To Persuade To Explain To Convey

4 30% 35% 35%

8 35% 35% 30%

12 40% 40% 20%

NAEP Writing Framework

Writing

Writing types/purposes (standards 1−3) Writing arguments Writing informative/explanatory texts Writing narratives Strong and growing across-the-curriculum emphasis on

students writing arguments and informative/explanatory texts

Aligned with NAEP Writing framework

Reading Balance of literature and informational texts Text complexityWriting Emphasis on argument and informative/explanatory writing Writing about sourcesSpeaking and Listening Inclusion of formal and informal talkLanguage Stress on general academic and domain-specific vocabulary

Key Advances

STANDARDS FORMATHEMATICS

JUNE 2010

Design and Organization

Standards for Mathematical Practice Carry across all grade levels Describe habits of mind of a mathematically expert student

Standards for Mathematical Content K-8 standards presented by grade level Organized into domains that progress over several grades Grade introductions give 2–4 focal points at each grade level High school standards presented by conceptual theme

(Number & Quantity, Algebra, Functions, Modeling, Geometry, Statistics & Probability)

Design and Organization

Content standards define what students should understand and be able to do

Clusters are groups of related standards Domains are larger groups that progress across grades

Design and OrganizationGrade Level Overviews

Key Advances

Focus and coherence Focus on key topics at each grade level. Coherent progressions across grade levels.Balance of concepts and skills Content standards require both conceptual understanding and

procedural fluency.Mathematical practices Foster reasoning and sense-making in mathematics.College and career readiness Level is ambitious but achievable.

Intentional Design Limitations

What the Standards do NOT define: How teachers should teach All that can or should be taught The nature of advanced work beyond the core The interventions needed for students well below grade level The full range of support for English language learners and

students with special needs Everything needed to be college and career ready

Sample Performance Tasks

Analyze how Abraham Lincoln in his “Second Inaugural Address” examines the ideas that led to the Civil War, paying particular attention to the order in which the points are made, how Lincoln introduces and develops his points, and the connections that are drawn among them.

Focused Literacy

Compare what the latest science tells us about Genetically Modified food against the arguments offered for and against Genetically Modified food. Evaluate the hypotheses, data, analysis, and conclusions of each side, including determining the extent to which each side in the debate over Genetically Modified food relies on the available science, argues from an economic perspective or appeals to political and emotional concerns. Verify the data from each author and corroborate or challenge the conclusions with other sources of information.

Extended Research/Writing

Cite strong and thorough textual evidence from John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn” to support an analysis of what the poem says explicitly about the urn as well as what can be inferred about the urn from evidence in the poem. Based on a close reading, draw inferences from the test regarding what meanings the figures decorating the urn convey as well as noting where the poem leaves matters about the urn and its decoration uncertain.

Focused Literacy

Informational Texts (Grades 2-3)

Students describe the reasons behind Joyce Milton’s statement that bats are nocturnal in her Bats: Creatures of the Night and how she supports the points she is making in the text. [RI.2.8]

Informational Texts (Grades 4-5)

Students compare and contrast a firsthand account of African American ballplayers in the Negro Leagues to a secondhand account of their treatment found in books such as Kadir Nelson’s We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball, attending to the focus of each account and the information provided by each. [RI.4.6]

Informational Texts (Grades 6-8 )

Students trace the line of argument in Winston Churchill’s “Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat” address to Parliament and evaluate his specific claims and opinions in the text, distinguishing which claims are supported by facts, reasons, and evidence, and which are not. [RI.6.8]

Drag-and-Drop: How would you balance the scale pictured below? Drag the weights from below the scale onto the scale to make it balance.

Sample Performance Tasks for Mathematics

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Our school has to select a girl for the long jump at the regional championship. Three girls are in contention. We have a school jump-off. Their results, in meters, are given in the accompanying table.

Hans says, “Aisha has the longest average. She should go to the championship.” Do you think Hans is right? Explain your reasoning.

Sample Performance Tasks for Mathematics

Elsa Miki Aisha

3.25 3.55 3.67

3.95 3.88 3.78

4.28 3.61 3.92

2.95 3.97 3.62

3.66 3.75 3.85

3.81 3.59 3.73

A regular trapezoid is presented in the figure below.

Using the drawing tool found in the lower left hand corner of your screen, connect the two points that would connect the line of symmetry for this figure.

Sample Performance Tasks for Mathematics

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Which statement is true about the relation shown on the graph?

1) It is a function because there exists one x-coordinate for each y-coordinate.

2) It is a function because there exists one y-coordinate for each x-coordinate.

3) It is not a function because there are multiple y-values for a given x-value.

4) It is not a function because there are multiple x-values for a given y-value.

Sample Performance Tasks for Mathematics

Standards for K-12 English/Language Arts and Mathematics

The number and frequency of tests The focus on reading and writing

throughout the curriculum Test results that are comparable to other

states

What changes

All other standards within PASS Testing through 2013-14 school year Work in curriculum committees throughout

the district to establish calendars, benchmark tests

Disaggregation of data to show strengths and weaknesses by district, school, class, and subgroup

What stays the same

What happens to the other tests we currently give (5th grade Science, Social Studies, Writing; 7th grade Geography, 8th grade Science, Social Studies, Writing; the EOIs)?

How will this affect the ACE graduation requirements?

How long will assessments take? Will assessments be scored instantly?

What we don’t know right now

Resources http://www.corestandards.org/

http://www.parcconline.org/

http://sde.state.ok.us/Curriculum/CommonCore/default.html

Curriculum Pages on MPS Website

Common Core App by Mastery Connect for Smart Phones

Rick Cobb, Director of Curriculum

Coordinators: Ginger Howe Jennifer Mankins Rebecca McLaughlin Pat Morgan Patrice Powdar Shirley Starkey

Questions and Comments