HMCS Max Bernays Pre-Deployment Brief (May 2024).pptx
Coffee and Common Core #1_An Overview
1. Coffee and Common Core
Session #1: An Overview
Dunlap Grade School
Mandy Ellis, Natalie Lanser and
Samantha Mahrt
2. Warm Up
2
I KNOW
What do you know and what do you
want to know about the Common Core
State Standards
I WANT
TO KNOW
Please jot down your
“I Want to Knows” on your note card
4. Conversation Norms
• Silence your cell phones
• Focus on the learning
• Communicate respectfully
• Ask your questions!
5. Objectives
• Understand the principles of the CCSS
• Understand the 3 shifts in English Language
Arts and Math within the Common Core
• Have the opportunity to ask your questions
Additional Learning Opportunities
January: Math
February: ELA
March: PARCC
8. Principles of the CCSS
Fewer - Clearer - Higher
– Focused, coherent, clear and rigorous
– Internationally benchmarked
– Anchored in college and career readiness*
– Evidence- and research-based
Common Core is a set of standards
9.
10. Common Core Require a Shift from….
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High
School
Completion
College and
Career
Readiness
for All
11. College and Career Ready Students
• Establish independence
• Acquire a strong content knowledge base
• Adapt communication to audience, task,
purpose or discipline
• Comprehend, critique and question
• Cite and evaluate evidence
• Use technology and digital media thoughtfully
• Understand other perspectives and cultures
National Governors Association/Chief State School Officers (2010)
12. PARCC
The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers
Common assessments aligned to the Common Core in Grades 3-5
Performance-Based Assessment (PBA)
•Administered in March
•The ELA/literacy PBA will focus on writing effectively when analyzing text
•The mathematics PBA will focus on applying skills, concepts, and
understandings to solve multi-step problems requiring abstract reasoning,
precision, perseverance, and strategic use of tools
End-of-Year Assessment (EOY)
•Administered in May.
•The ELA/literacy EOY will focus on reading comprehension.
•The math EOY will be comprised of machine-scorable items
Growth Model for student Achievement
13. Three Shifts in
English/Language Arts
Engage in Complex Text
Extract and Employ Evidence
Build Knowledge
14. The CCSS Shifts Build
Toward College and Career
Readiness for All Students
15. Regular practice with complex text
and its academic language
– Exposure to Complex Texts: Quantitative,
Qualitative, and Reader Tasks
– Close Reading: read repeatedly with a clear
purpose in mind
– Use of Academic Language
16. Reading and writing grounded
in evidence from text, literary
and informational
– Right and Wrong vs. How do you know?
– What support from the text can you find as
evidence?
17. Building knowledge through
content rich nonfiction
– Topics or Themes: Students can build on
prior knowledge
– Critical Thinkers
19. Focus
Teach less, learn more
• Put in clusters vs. scope and sequence
Clusters were created to identify what skills 75% of our time
should be spent.
Scope and Sequence describes all the skills that are taught
and practiced throughout the text book.
The curriculum is defined by the Common Core
Standards, not the Math in Focus text books.
20. Coherence
Math should make sense
1. Make sense of problems and persevere.
2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
3. Construct viable arguments and critique the
reasoning of others.
4. Model with mathematics
5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
6. Attend to precision.
7. Look for and make use of structure.
8. Look for and express regularity in repeated
reasoning.
21.
22. Rigor
Math is a balance of concept, process,
skill, and answers
• What this looks like in third grade
– PARCC journals
– Problem solving focus
– Answering in sentences
– Speed
– Defending answers
– Explaining to others
23. What Are We Doing?
• Common Core Communicator Series
• Coffee and Common Core Sessions
• PROE Center
• PLC Meetings
• SIP Days
Prepare students with the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in education and training after high school.
Competition: The standards are internationally benchmarked. Common standards will help ensure our students are globally competitive.
Equity: Expectations are consistent for all – and not dependent on a student’s zip code.
Clarity: The standards are focused, coherent, and clear. Clearer standards help students (and parents and teachers) understand what is expected of them.
Collaboration: The standards create a foundation to work collaboratively across states and districts, pooling resources and expertise, to create curricular tools, professional
The Common Core State Standards require a mindset shift for students, teachers, and school level leaders. We need to shift our focus from high school completion to college and career readiness for all students.
The Common Core State Standards are for all students, not just students seeking accelerated learning.
The Common Core State Standards will impact all teachers, not just ELA and Math teachers.
The Common Core is happening now – 46 states have adopted the standards, and new common assessments are being developed.
School level leaders will need to play a central role in implementing the new standards and in cultivating this mindset shift.
The definition of career and college ready students is listed in the Common Core document. Students who are college and career ready in reading, writing, speaking, listening and language establish independence, have a strong content knowledge base, and adapt communication to specific audience, task, purpose and discipline. These students comprehend, critique and question what they consume. They value evidence and cite evidence while communicating. In addition, students evaluate others use of evidence. College and career ready students use technology and digital media thoughtfully and understand and appreciate other perspectives and cultures.
Visual for those who organize better in their mind with a graphic—next slide is textual based.