This document discusses a training for elementary teachers on the transition to the Common Core State Standards. It includes objectives to share lessons, discuss text complexity, and focus on productive collaborative conversations. Teachers are asked to design a lesson incorporating reading and speaking/listening standards. Key aspects of the CCSS are reviewed like 21st century skills. The document provides information on text complexity, critical collaborative conversations, and examples of speaking and listening standards. Teachers are tasked with planning lessons using informational texts and incorporating speaking/listening standards.