The document discusses creating a classroom focused on 21st century skills rather than solely on the Common Core. It emphasizes skills like independence, problem-solving, flexibility, using evidence, and cultural understanding. Charts list skills students and teachers need, like crafting problems, valuing engagement, and facilitating learning. The classroom should have one-to-one technology use, blended learning, and public problem-solving. Data and tools should align with skills evaluation. The best approach is forgetting Common Core and focusing on skills for life beyond school.

1. Creating a
Common Core
Classroom
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Jonathan P. Costa, Sr.
March 18th, 2014

2. The Best Way…
…to create a
“Common Core
classroom” is to
forget the Common
Core and focus on the
skills and attributes
students will need to
be successful in their
lives beyond school.

3. The Mission
To prepare
EVERY student
for learning, life,
and work
in the 21st century.
© Corwin Press - 2011

4. You probably
noticed…
© Corwin Press - 2011
..the culture
served by this
model of
teaching and
learning is
already gone.

5. Critical 21st Century Skills
CC ELA
21st CSCC Math
Here are the universal skills
that can leverage
the greatest improvements.
E1/21 - Demonstrate independence in reading complex texts or viewing
media and writing, speaking or producing content about them.
E2/21 - Build a strong base of knowledge through content rich texts or
other appropriate sources of information.
E3/21 – Use digital tools to obtain, evaluate, synthesize, and report
findings/information clearly and effectively in response to a variety of
tasks and purposes.
M3/E4 - Construct and engage in viable arguments based on evidence
and critique reasoning of others.
E5/21 - Read, write, produce and speak grounded in evidence for a
variety of purposes and audiences.
M1/21 - Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
E6/21 - Come to understand other perspectives & cultures through
reading, listening, and collaborations
21 - Demonstrate innovation, flexibility and adaptability in thinking
patterns, work habits, and working/learning conditions.
E7/21 - Value and demonstrate personal responsibility, character,
cultural understanding, and ethical behavior

6. Less paper, more pixels.
Less single source, more crowd source.
Less just in case, more just in time.
Less about testing, more being tested.
What Is Needed?
E1/21 - Demonstrate independence in reading complex texts or viewing
media and writing, speaking or producing content about them.
E2/21 - Build a strong base of knowledge through content rich texts or
other appropriate sources of information.
E3/21 – Use digital tools to obtain, evaluate, synthesize, and report
findings/information clearly and effectively in response to a variety of
tasks and purposes.
M3/E4 - Construct and engage in viable arguments based on evidence
and critique reasoning of others.
E5/21 - Read, write, produce and speak grounded in evidence for a
variety of purposes and audiences.
M1/21 - Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
E6/21 - Come to understand other perspectives & cultures through
reading, listening, and collaborations
21 - Demonstrate innovation, flexibility and adaptability in thinking
patterns, work habits, and working/learning conditions.
E7/21 - Value and demonstrate personal responsibility, character,
cultural understanding, and ethical behavior
• It is “flat.”
• It is
unpredictable.
• It is constantly
changing.
• It is
increasingly
unforgiving to
those who are
unskilled.

7. One-to-One, Blended Learning, & Public Problem Solving
• Our Academy courses are all delivered using digital learning centered
one-to-one instructional model.
• Each course involves team work, problem solving, and deep student
ownership of learning.
Science & Math
Strands
Technology
Strands
Earth and Energy
Essentials
Biology21
Chemistry21
Physics21
Algebra21
Foundations of
Health Science and
Technology
Public Health
Skills21
Research, Design,
and Development
Digital Media and
Movie Making
E-Commerce
Entrepreneurship
Digital Media and
Animation
Virtual Worlds and
Simulation

8. What Is Needed?
In a learning environment that supports the
development of these skills:
Students Should Be… Teachers Should Be…

9. What Is Needed?
How many of the attributes listed in the
activity do you find in the rubric?
Students Should Be…
• Self-directed
• Solving problems
• Flexible
• Persistent
• Curious
• Reflective
• Logical
• Creative
Teachers Should Be…
• Crafting problems
• Designing for ambiguity
• Valuing engagement
• Emphasizing evidence
• Organizing activity
• Generating opportunity
• Facilitating learning
• Supporting & encouraging

10. Does Your Rubric Support This?
• What if nobody is in a classroom?
• What if technology is considered an
essential tool for learning and not just a
“physical resource?”
• What if everyone has a different “physical
arrangement?”

11. Aligned Learning Practice

12. Aligned Learning Practice
Aligning leadership &
talent capacity
development processes
with data informed and
research driven
learning practice.
Aligning Integrated data and
knowledge platform support with
management and analysis tools that
are efficient and easy to use.
Aligning
instructional/learning
evaluation structures
with digitally supported
21st century skills,
knowledge and
dispositions.

13. The Best Way…
…to create a
“Common Core
classroom” is to
forget the Common
Core and focus on the
skills and attributes
students will need to
be successful in their
lives beyond school.
CC ELA
21st CSCC Math
CC ELA
21st CSCC Math
E1/21 - Demonstrate independence in reading complex texts or
viewing media and writing, speaking or producing content about
them.
E2/21 - Build a strong base of knowledge through content rich
texts or other appropriate sources of information.
E3/21 –Use digital tools to obtain, evaluate, synthesize, and report
findings/information clearly and effectively in response to a
variety of tasks and purposes.
M3/E4 - Construct and engage in viable arguments based on
evidence and critique reasoning of others.
E5/21 - Read, write, produce and speak grounded in evidence for a
variety of purposes and audiences.
M1/21 - Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
E6/21 - Come to understand other perspectives & cultures through
reading, listening, and collaborations
21 - Demonstrate innovation, flexibility and adaptability in
thinking patterns, work habits, and working/learning conditions.
E7/21 - Value and demonstrate personal responsibility, character,
cultural understanding, and ethical behavior
E1/21 - Demonstrate independence in reading complex texts or
viewing media and writing, speaking or producing content about
them.
E2/21 - Build a strong base of knowledge through content rich
texts or other appropriate sources of information.
E3/21 –Use digital tools to obtain, evaluate, synthesize, and report
findings/information clearly and effectively in response to a
variety of tasks and purposes.
M3/E4 - Construct and engage in viable arguments based on
evidence and critique reasoning of others.
E5/21 - Read, write, produce and speak grounded in evidence for a
variety of purposes and audiences.
M1/21 - Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
E6/21 - Come to understand other perspectives & cultures through
reading, listening, and collaborations
21 - Demonstrate innovation, flexibility and adaptability in
thinking patterns, work habits, and working/learning conditions.
E7/21 - Value and demonstrate personal responsibility, character,
cultural understanding, and ethical behavior