Common Core Standards: The Path to College and Career

Readiness –

Cornerstone of the Kentucky Adult Education Program

presented by

Gayle Box, AssociateKentucky Adult Education

Focus on Kentucky Education Initiatives

P-20 collaboration to increase college readiness and

increase degree completion in Kentucky

http://cpe.ky.gov/policies/academicinit/senbill1

2009 Senate Bill 1

• Are clear, understandable and consistent

• Include rigorous content and application of knowledge through high-order skills

• Build upon strengths and lessons of current state standards

• Are informed by other top performing countries and

• Are evidence-based

www.corestandards.org

Common Core State Standards

Strands

Reading Standards for Literature K- 5 6-12

Reading Standards for Informational Text K- 5 6-12

Reading Standards: Foundational Skills K-5

Writing Standards K- 5 6-12

Language Standards K-5 6-12

Speaking and Listening Standards K-5 6-12

CCSS for English Language Arts

Standards for Reading Correlation ExampleCCR2 Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

RI1.2 Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.RI2.2 Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific

paragraphs within the text.RI4.2 Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text.RI5.2 Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.RI8.2 Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course

of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.RI11/12.2 Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to provide a complex analysis; provide an objective summary of the text.

College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards

CCSS for Mathematics

CCSS for Mathematics

Mathematical Practices

Standards-in-Action

www.adultedcontentstandards.ed.gov

SIA Innovations

Understanding the StandardsUnpacking the Components of the Standards

Understanding the StandardsAligning Resources to Standards

Build a reference library◦ Completed unpacking charts◦ Charts that correlate textbooks and other

resources

Review and refine completed charts

Make charts available

Understanding the StandardsCompleting Materials for Instructional Use

Translating Standards into CurriculumIdentifying Lead Standards

Choose a goal for the lesson study Team creates the lesson Team observes the lesson being taught by a

team member Team revises the lesson Different team member teaches the revised

lesson

Translating Standards into CurriculumThe Lesson Study

Introduce and determine the assignment’s purpose

Analyze the demands of the assignment

Compare the assignment’s demands with those of the standards

Diagnose student work

Ratchet-up and redesign the assignment

Focus on AssignmentsFive-step process

Evidence that: Content is aligned to the demands of

standards

Cognitive level of activities is aligned to the demands of the standards

Standards are translated into lesson content relevant to adult students

Observing Standards-in Action

Evidence that:

Standards are addressed by a coherent progression of learning

Students’ level of understanding is assessed during the lesson and instruction is adjusted accordingly

Observing Standards-in Action

2 state leads and 3 program directors Used new KYAE Standards for Mathematics Chose programs in same KYAE region Implemented all four innovations within two

years Planned for statewide sustainment

KYAE Standards-in-Action Pilot

Importance of using standards to guide instruction and a process for implementation

Benefits of a programmatic approach involving the director with the instructors

Potential for enhancing the instructional leadership of our directors

Benefits of the learning community structure

Lessons Learned

Three-year Plan for ELA and Math Standards

Year 1 Innovation 1 ELA-Fall Math-Spring

Year 2 Innovation 2 ELA-Fall Math-Spring

Year 3 Innovations 3&4 Innovation 3- ELA/Math combinedInnovation 4- Program Directors

KYAE Standards PD

10 Learning Communities (LCs)

Statewide Implementation

English Language Arts

Collaborative Center for Literacy Development at the

University of Kentucky

Coaches

KYAE PD Staff

Mathematics

Adult Education Academy Morehead State University

Coaches

KYAE PD Staff

Workshop Delivery Model

National Center for Family Literacy

Online courses developed for innovations 1-3

Required for part-time instructors working less than 500 hours/year

Online Delivery Model

Understanding The Standards We Teach

Unit 1a: Unpacking the Components of Standards

Unit 1b: Aligning Resources to Standards

Continuation: Completing Materials for Instructional Use

2011-12: SIA Innovation 1Program Directors’ Orientation

Assigned: 28 – 30 standards from various strands and grades

Selected: 20 additional standards of their own choosing

Timeline: work with coach to determine dates for assignment postings and conferences

Support Framework: indicate methods for supporting the work of their team

2011-12: SIA Innovation 1 Planning Guide for Program Directors

One-day session on Unpacking the Components of the Standards and Sample Activities

Four weeks to complete and post assignments

One-day session on Aligning Resources

Four weeks to complete and post assignments

2011-12: SIA Innovation 1 Instructors’ Workshops

Translating Standards Into Curriculum: The Lead-Standards Approach

Unit 2a: Identifying Standards and Designing Coherent Units of Instruction

Unit 2b:Conducting Lesson Studies

Program Directors’ Debriefing Meeting

2012-13: SIA Innovation 2 Program Directors’ Orientation

One-day session to identify Lead and Supporting Standards for chosen grade level and use them to begin developing units

Four weeks to complete and post four Instructional Units

One-day session on Conducting Lesson Studies

Four weeks to collaboratively complete one lesson, observe team member teaching the lesson, collaboratively revise the lesson and reteach

2012-13: SIA Innovation 2 Instructors’ Workshops

Presentations on team experiences conducting the lesson study

Discussion of programs’ status on completing units of instruction for all NRS levels in English/LA

Overview of Innovation 4

Program Directors’ Innovation 2 Debriefing Meeting

Planning Stages

Unit 3: Focus on Assignments: Working Together to Improve Teaching and Learning

Unit 4: Observing Standards-in-Action(Program Directors only)

2013-14: SIA Innovations 3 and 4

Develop professional development for observation categories

Units 1-3 online courses for new instructors

Resources developed during the PD made available online at www.teachersdomain.org and www.kyae.ky.gov

Sustaining the Innovations