A Powerful Tool for Aligning to the Common Core

Dr. Felicia Fowler

Director of Implementation, Educational Partnerships – South Region

International Center for Leadership in Education

Felicia@Leadered.com | 518-728-1830

Developed in Partnership with SPN

Agenda

•Overview

•Alignment to CCSS

•Next Generation Assessments

•Questions/Comments

Are your students ready for the CCSS?

Are your students ready for the CCSS?

How do you know?

Common Core State Standards

•Fewer

•Clearer

•Higher

•Time intensive

•More detail

•Rigorous

Compare and contrast the following state standards to CCSS 

1. Identify 2‐3 similarities/differences2. Identify the Grade Level

ELA – Grade ?

Identify the purpose for writing (i.e. to entertain, to inform, to share experiences.)

Identify the audience for which a text is written.

Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. 

– Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.

State Standard

Common Core State Standard

ELA – Grade 4

Identify the purpose for writing (i.e. to entertain, to inform, to share experiences.)

Identify the audience for which a text is written.

Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. 

– Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.

State Standard

Common Core State Standard

State Test NGACreate a large spinner for a game that has at least eight sectors. Each sector should be assigned a different ‘prize’. Prizes should range in value from most appealing to least appealing.

Vary the sectors so that the probability to win a desired prize is much less that the probability to win a lesser desired prize. Calculate the theoretical probability of landing on each prize.

Conduct multiple trials with the spinner and determine the experimental probability of landing on each prize. Which price has the greatest probability and which prize has the least probability?

3.  What are the implications for districts, instructional leaders, teachers?

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•Fewer, clearer, higher

•Rigor/Relevance Framework

•Consultation with Sue Gendron

Corestandards.org

Timeline

Current State Standards

Current State Tests

2011 | 2012 | 2013

Current State Tests

Next Gen Assessments

Common Core State Standards

| 2014 | 2015 | 2016

Current State Standards

INSTRUCTION

What is next|navigator?

•Online Tool for Instructional Leaders and Teachers

•Common Core State Standards Database

•Your State Standards Database

•Next Generation Assessment Database

•Work Space to create original NGAs

Alignment Search Alignment Search Page

Alignment Search Results

Is the state standard tested?

High – always

Medium –sometimes

Low – not often

Create your own assessment

Choose standards 

for workspace

Is the CCSS a high priority according to NESS?

Survey of educators, business people, parents, community members

Identify Gaps

There is no common core state standard equivalent at this grade level.

How do I know if my students have mastered the CCSS?

SampleNGAs

CCSS  Your State Standard

Search by Sample NGA 4‐Point Rubric

600+ Sample NGAs

•Aligned to CCSS

–Task – toolkit

–Scoring Guide

–Student Work

–Quadrant D

–“Current”

–Vary in duration

–ELA, Math, Science, SS, Career/Tech Ed

My Work Spaces•My Work Spaces is an area that can be

organized and tailored for the user.•In this area, the user can:–Create original next generation assessments

aligned to common core state standards–Organize next generation assessments in

folders created by the user–Update, view and delete next generation

assessments saved in folders–Archive any next generation assessments

(including associated files and links)

Work Space

•Create your own – 4 steps

•next|toolkit

•Save/Archive

•Professional dialogue

•Professional growth

Create an Original NGA Select Your Standards

How is it used?

Alignment

Identify the purpose for writing (i.e. to entertain, to inform, to share experiences.)

Identify the audience for which a text is written.

Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. 

– Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.

Grade 4 ELA

State Standard

Common Core State Standard

Planning Assessment Consortia

•Appendix B – CCSS

Instructional ResourcesSupport

•Tutorial – downloadable PDF

•Voice over animations

•FAQs

How do schools use it?

•Annual subscription

•Individual usernames/passwords

–With PLC work

–With Job‐embedded instructional coaching

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•Innovative tools and resources to support the transition to more rigorous assessments

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A Powerful Tool for Aligning to the Common Core

Dr. Felicia Fowler

Director of Implementation, Educational Partnerships – South Region

International Center for Leadership in Education

Felicia@Leadered.com | 518-728-1830

Developed in Partnership with SPN