This document provides an overview of next|navigator, an online tool that helps educators align instruction to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). It allows users to search for CCSS, compare them to state standards, find sample next generation assessments, and create original assessments. The tool provides resources to help determine if students have mastered the CCSS. It is used by instructional leaders and teachers to plan instruction and evaluate gaps between the CCSS and state standards. Subscribing districts benefit from features that enhance professional learning communities and coaching.

1. Agenda
•Overview
•Alignment to CCSS
A Powerful Tool for Aligning to the
Common Core •Next Generation Assessments
Dr. Felicia Fowler
•Questions/Comments
Director of Implementation, Educational Partnerships – South Region
International Center for Leadership in Education
Felicia@Leadered.com | 518-728-1830
Developed in Partnership with SPN
Are your students ready for the Are your students ready for the
CCSS? CCSS?
How do you know?

2. Common Core State Standards Compare and contrast the following state
standards to CCSS
•Fewer •Time intensive
•Clearer •More detail 1. Identify 2‐3 similarities/differences
•Higher •Rigorous 2. Identify the Grade Level
ELA – Grade ? ELA – Grade 4
Common Core Common Core
State Standard State Standard
State Standard Write narratives to State Standard Write narratives to
Identify the purpose for develop real or imagined Identify the purpose for develop real or imagined
experiences or events writing (i.e. to experiences or events
writing (i.e. to
using effective technique, using effective technique,
entertain, to inform, to entertain, to inform, to
descriptive details, and descriptive details, and
share experiences.) share experiences.) clear event sequences.
clear event sequences.
Identify the audience for – Orient the reader by Identify the audience for – Orient the reader by
which a text is written. establishing a situation and which a text is written. establishing a situation and
introducing a narrator and/or introducing a narrator and/or
characters; organize an event characters; organize an event
sequence that unfolds sequence that unfolds
naturally. naturally.

3. State Test NGA
Create a large spinner for a game
that has at least eight sectors.
Each sector should be assigned a
different ‘prize’. Prizes should
range in value from most
appealing to least appealing.
Vary the sectors so that the
3. What are the implications for districts,
probability to win a desired prize is
much less that the probability to instructional leaders, teachers?
win a lesser desired prize.
Calculate the theoretical
probability of landing on each
prize.
Conduct multiple trials with the
spinner and determine the
experimental probability of landing
on each prize. Which price has the
greatest probability and which
prize has the least probability?
next|navigator support Corestandards.org
•Fewer, clearer,
higher
•Rigor/Relevance
Framework
•Consultation with
Sue Gendron

4. Timeline What is next|navigator?
Current State Current State Common Core
Standards Standards State Standards
•Online Tool for Instructional Leaders and
Teachers
2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016
INSTRUCTION
•Common Core State Standards Database
•Your State Standards Database
Current State Current State Next Gen •Next Generation Assessment Database
Tests Tests Assessments
•Work Space to create original NGAs

5. Alignment Search Alignment Search Page
Alignment Search Results

6. Is the state standard tested? Create your own assessment
High – always
Medium – Choose
sometimes standards
Low – not for
often workspace
Is the CCSS a high priority
Identify Gaps
according to NESS?
There is no
Survey of common core
educators, state standard
business people, equivalent at
parents, this grade
community level.
members

7. How do I know if my students
CCSS  Your State Standard
have mastered the CCSS?
Sample
NGAs

8. Search by Sample NGA 4‐Point Rubric
600+ Sample NGAs
•Aligned to CCSS
–Task – toolkit
–Scoring Guide
–Student Work
–Quadrant D
–“Current”
–Vary in duration
–ELA, Math, Science, SS, Career/Tech Ed

9. My Work Spaces Work Space
•My Work Spaces is an area that can be
organized and tailored for the user.
•In this area, the user can: •Create your own – 4 steps
–Create original next generation assessments •next|toolkit
aligned to common core state standards
•Save/Archive
–Organize next generation assessments in
folders created by the user •Professional dialogue
–Update, view and delete next generation •Professional growth
assessments saved in folders
–Archive any next generation assessments
(including associated files and links)

10. Create an Original NGA Select Your Standards

13. Alignment
Common Core
State Standard State Standard
Write narratives to
Identify the purpose for develop real or imagined
writing (i.e. to experiences or events
How is it used? entertain, to inform, to
share experiences.)
using effective technique,
descriptive details, and
clear event sequences.
Identify the audience for
– Orient the reader by
which a text is written. establishing a situation and
introducing a narrator and/or
characters; organize an event
sequence that unfolds
naturally.
Grade 4 ELA

14. Planning Assessment Consortia
•Appendix B – CCSS
Instructional Resources
Support
•Tutorial – downloadable PDF
•Voice over animations
•FAQs

15. How do schools use it? Benefits to SPN Enhancement
•Annual subscription
•Individual usernames/passwords •Social Networking
–With PLC work •Podcasts
–With Job‐embedded instructional coaching •Gold Seal Lessons
–Enhancement to SPN Membership
•Successful Practices
•Case Studies
•Technical Bulletins
•Effective and efficient approaches to increasing student achievement
•Successful practices for teaching and learning from the nation’s most rapidly
improving schools
•Practical strategies for using rigor, relevance, and relationships to increase
instructional effectiveness
•Innovative tools and resources to support the transition to more rigorous
assessments
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16. Next Navigator Webinar
•Next Navigator Webinar
http://www.leadered.com/NextNavigatorWebinar.html Questions?
A Powerful Tool for Aligning to the
Common Core
Dr. Felicia Fowler
Director of Implementation, Educational Partnerships – South Region
International Center for Leadership in Education
Felicia@Leadered.com | 518-728-1830
Developed in Partnership with SPN