The Promise ofStudent Performance

Getting to the Core of Common Standards

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“Although the development and widespread adoption by states of the CCSS mark a significant milestone in American education, successful implementation is necessary if students across the country are to realize the benefits.”

— National Governors Association, Issue Brief, October 2012

We help you manage the real implications of change to student performance, classroom instruction, and monitoring classroom instruction — those things that will either enhance or impede your ability to achieve the goal of the Common Core: the development of college and career ready students.

The Pearson Difference

Many still seethe Common Core like this.

On the surface, the English Language Arts Common Core is about:

• Emphasis on increasing text complexity

• Focus on informational texts (non-fiction) over literature

• Focus on argumentation

• Standards for social studies, science and technical subjects that stress “disciplinary literacy” – the ability to think and write like an historian or scientist

• Competencies of the literateindividual – CCR standards

• New content standards: fewer, deeper, more rigorous

• “Practices” for students

• Focused topics at each grade and embedded “coherence” – the progression of content across grades

• Significant content shifts from grade-to-grade

On the surface, the Mathematics Common Core is about:

• Performance-based

On the surface,the new Common Core assessments are:

What’s on the surfaceis important…

but it’s really aboutthe deeper implications.

For Students: applying knowledge — student performance — as a true measure of understanding

For Teachers: 1) identifying what students must know and be able to do; 2) determining acceptable evidence of that performance; and, 3) planning instruction to get students there

For Administrators: bridging the relationship between the adoption of common standards and observations of “educator effectiveness”

When Students can demonstrate desired academic behavior by using their knowledge in new and increasingly more challenging situations

When Teachers know how to plan real units of study that emphasize student performance and teach differently to develop desired academic behavior

When Administrators know to look for evidence of instruction that supports the development of student academic behavior

…and,the deeper implications

are all about performance.

How do you develop an appreciation

for...

...and understanding of

performance?

We listen to your needs and then collaborate with you – meeting you where you are – to help you achieve your goals with grade-banded workshops and services that are cohesive, flexible, and differentiated.

100+ services across the implementation continuum help you develop a deep appreciation for and understanding of ‘performance.’

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Expertise on the ground and in our halls

1,000s of Authors, Researchers, and Consultants with Major Common Core Expertise

Our close work and association with key Standards architects, authors, and assessment experts ensures:

• Spirit and pedagogical approach of CCSS initiative is embodied in our educational materials, assessments, and professional learning and consulting services

• Our next-generation products and approaches connect instructional, assessment, and efficacy resources with personalized and connected learning for students and educators

• Our nationwide network of Pearson educational consultants – lifelong educators, trained and certified content experts, and school leaders – provide access to quality individuals with local knowledge of the college and career readiness challenges in your schools and districts

Dr. Robert Marzano now a Pearson Common Core Author

Connecting Teacher Effectiveness to Leader Effectiveness

Balanced, formative assessment strategies

Improving student learning

Implementing effective elements of teaching

Strategies for leading, building, and sustaining system-wide change and student achievement

Defining the competencies of effective school

leadership

Using Value Added Analysis

Identifying highly effective teachers

Working with Professional Development Leaders like…

Jon Saphier – Research for Better Teaching

Rick Stiggins – Assessment Training Institute (ATI)

Dr. Robert J. Marzano – Instructional Development & Leadership

Michael Fullan – Change Leadership & System-wide Transformation

Time- and budget-sensitive tools to help you determine specific implementation needs, including:

• Pre-training survey

• 3 Intensity Levels of College and Career Readiness Assessments

• Technology Infrastructure Assessment

Planning Implementation

• All levels include a report with written recommendations and a sharing session with the Pearson Assessment Specialist.

• The report places the school on a continuum of college and career readiness (more data = deeper analysis and more specific recommendations)

• Pearson can provide a District-wide College and Career Readiness Assessment, priced based on number of schools and level selected.

Pearson’s College and Career Readiness Assessment Levels

Pre-Training Survey quickly gauge educators instructional practice, content knowledge, and pedagogical content knowledge: $2,500

College & Career Assessment Level I

off site analysis of student data: $8,000

College & Career Assessment Level II

off Site analysis of student and school data: $15,000

College & Career Assessment Level III

off site and on site data collection and analysis of student, school, and classroom data: $25,000

Technology Infrastructure Assessment

consultative services to analyze the ability of a district’stechnical infrastructure environment to support onlineassessments associated with the Common Core: $25,000

Develop a thorough understanding of the Common Core and its impact on instructional and leadership practices through our extensive professional development offerings, covering such topics as:

• Integration of Dr. Robert Marzano’s research-based teaching strategies

• Text complexity

• Increasing rigor

• Performance-based assessment

• Instructional leadership

• Train the Trainer “plus”

Building Knowledge and Skills

Gain a deep understanding of how to use performance tasks as the foundation for measuring ongoing student performance, and develop a shared understanding of the evidence of performance that demonstrates mastery of the standards.

Measuring Student Understanding

Increase the impact of Measuring Student Understanding by learning how to plan CCSS-aligned instructional units and how to make the changes in teaching that enable students to demonstrate understanding and develop strong academic behaviors.

Developing Curriculum Models

Ensure the application of professional knowledge through ongoing, job-embedded support for teacher workgroups engaged in designing CCSS-based curriculum and instruction.

Implementing Instructional Change

Classroom observation frameworks and coaching tools help administrators see and bring rigor to life in the classroom.

• Link instructional behavior indicators to the 8 Mathematical Practices and the CCR competencies

• Create a “transparent” environment for growth

• Promote inter-rater reliability

Build and sustain internal capacity for enhancing and maintaining the success of the CCSS implementation through our job-embedded support and collaborative services for leaders and teachers.

Sustaining and Growing Capacity

Pearson’s Common Core Services…do it yourself with help! Let us train you… …or,…

OrientationWorkshop

Participation

Development

Extended Content Training & Deep

Reviewof Pearson Materials

Implementation

Use of Licensed Pearson

Materials

CoachingOptional

On-site Coaching& Modeling

Capacity Builder Plus™

Do it yourself with help! Use Pearson’s training materials for teachers and leaders to help build district Common Core capacity effectively and quickly.

Research Services to Inform Planning and Monitor the Effectiveness of Classroom Implementation

MeasuringStudent Understanding

Plan Build Develop

Developing Curriculum & Student

Understanding

Building Knowledge & Skills

Job-Embedded Services and Specialist Support

2012-13 2013-14 2014-15

Sustain

ImplementationPlanning

Leadership Coaching & Leadership Networks

Sustaining & Growing Capacity Services

Sample Common Core Services Implementation Plan

Instructional Framework Teacher Workgroups

Common Core Mini-Clinics

27 K-12 Virtual Sales Conference

“A Slice of Mathematics”

FREE 3-hour experience of 3 most popular workshops

Performance-Based Assessment for Mathematics

Focusing on the Mathematical Practicesof the Common Core

Using the Common Core in a Standards-Based Mathematics Classroom

“A Slice of English Language Arts”

FREE 3-hour experience of 3 most popular workshops

Digging into the Reading Standards

Digging into the Writing Standards

Performance-Based Assessments

A Strong Partner, Uniquely Positioned to Help

• Focus on student performance and support for managing purposeful instructional shifts

• Reference sites with results

• Twenty-year history of successful educational change implementation and standards-based instructional support

• Expansive, fully flexible portfolio of support and specialist services

• Onsite and online PD and tools

• Collaborative and job-embedded approach to supporting you and your teams

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“We’re reading about teachers needing to make instructional shifts. What does that really mean and how do I train my teachers to make those shifts?”

We have almost 100 grade-banded services to identify and address gaps in your training and classroom practices that will impede success. Our workshops “Focusing on the Mathematical Practices,” “CCR: Complex Texts” and “CCR: Writing Opinions” go into depth on the instructional shifts.

“The CCSS indicate that teachers will have to teach differently. How do I observe if my teachers are doing the right things to help students become college and career ready?

Our “Common Core Math and Literacy Observation Framework and Coaching Tools” will help administrators observe for and coach to the classroom practices that will develop desired student academic behaviors.

“We’ve heard that the new CC assessments will focus on performance? How do we effectively prepare our students—and our teachers—for those?

We don’t believe in short-term test prep. Our “Measuring Student Understanding” and “Developing Curriculum Models” sequence emphasizes the use of performance tasks and assessments through out the year to actually build real college and career readiness.

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