This document discusses how school libraries can prepare for PARCC assessments. It begins by introducing PARCC and its priorities such as assessing the full range of Common Core standards and providing timely data to inform instruction. It then discusses the technology skills students need and how school librarians can help by focusing on non-fiction, technology literacy, inquiry-based learning, and research skills. Resources for preparation include the PARCC website, standards documents, and examples of how districts implemented PARCC readiness. The role of the librarian is positioned as integral to teaching 21st century skills and information literacy aligned with Common Core.

1. Preparing Your
Library for PARCC
Presented by: Sandra Paul
Director of Technology
Sayreville Public Schools

2. Today's Student and Technology

3. Librarian

4. Where are the librarians?
I wonder why the role of the teacher librarian in K12 is
not surfaced in this discussion. I know that the University
of California folks value their research librarians, but
most of our schools in California don't have a single
educator at the school site that has information literacy
expertise at a time when our kids need it the most!
Glen Warren

5. Rethinking Learning

6. Library

7. Today

8. What is PARCC?
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Partnership for
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Assessment of
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Readiness of
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College and

Career

9. PARCC Priorities
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Student are college-and career-ready or on track
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Assess the full range of the Common Core
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Measure the full range of student performance
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Provide data for accountability
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Provide data during the academic year to inform
instruction, interventions and professional
development in a timely manner
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Incorporate innovative approaches throughout
the assessment system

10. Assessments
Definition: the evaluation or estimation of
the nature, quality, or ability of someone or
something.
Synonyms:evaluation, judgment, rating,
estimation, appraisal, analysis, opinion

11. Why online assessments?
“The rate of change in the global knowledge
economy is impacting everything we do—
including everything we do in education. It is our
responsibility as leaders to promote, identify and
raise up this innovation in education and use it
to change the landscape of teaching and
learning”.
Gene Wilhoit, Executive Director of the CCSSO

12. Tools for PARCC

13. NETS-Students
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Creativity and
Innovation
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Communication and
Collaboration
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Research and
Information Fluency

14. NETS-Students
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Critical Thinking, Problem Solving,
and Decision Making
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Digital Citizenship
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Technology Operations and
Concepts

15. Tech Skills = Comfort Level
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Keyboarding
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Cut and Paste
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Ability to navigate a browser
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Highlighting
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Using on-screen calculator
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Dragging and Dropping items
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Manipulating a graph

16. Tech Skills=Comfort Level
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Running a simulation to generate data
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Changing font size and background color
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Clicking on multiple correct answers
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Using Spreadsheets and documents

17. Common Core -LA
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Reading
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Writing
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Speaking and Listening
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Language
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Media Technology

18. Common Core-Math
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K-5: Foundation in whole numbers,
addition, subtraction, multiplication,
division, fractions and decimals.
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Negative numbers, Geometry
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8th
Algebra
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HS: practice applying mathematical ways
of thinking to real world issue and
challenges
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Mathematical Modeling

19. ALA Standards and
Common Core

20. AALS Publications
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Empowering Learners (2009)
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Standards for the 21st
Century Learner
(2009)

21. AASL and Common Core
The school library professional as leader, instructional
partner, information specialist, teacher, and program
administrator is critical for teaching and learning in
today’s schools. The school librarian leads in
building 21st-century skills by collaborating with
classroom teachers to design engaging learning
tasks that integrate key critical thinking skills,
technology and information literacy skills with
subject area content. In addition, the school librarian
provides a library program that contains multiple
instructional avenues and resources in various
formats for the authentic application of information
literacy skills.

22. Librarian and Common Core
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Focus on Non-fiction
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Technology Literacy Skills
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Inquiry-based learning
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Analysis, Synthesis
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Research and using resources
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Communication and collaboration
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“While English classes will still include healthy amounts of fiction, the standards say
that students should be reading more nonfiction texts as they get older, to prepare
them for the kinds of material they will read in college and careers. In the fourth
grade, students should be reading about the same amount from “literary” and
“informational” texts, according to the standards; in the eighth grade, 45 percent
should be literary and 55 percent informational, and by 12th grade, the split should be
30/70.” BY MARCARONSON Blog from SLJ

23. 2009 NJ Technology Literacy Skills
8.1 Education Technology: All students will
use digital tools to access, manage,
evaluate, and synthesize information in
order to solve problems individually and
collaboratively and to create and
communicate knowledge.

24. NJ Common Core Standards
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In June 2010 – NJ adopted the Common
Core Standards
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Spring 2010 – NJ joined in with 23 States
including Washington DC to do PARCC
assessments
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Spring 2014 – Field testing of the PARCC
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2014-2015 School Year – Implementation
of the PARCC assessments in NJ

25. Sayreville School Libraries
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NJ Technology Literacy Skills
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Digital Citizenship
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Research and Analysis
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School technology resources – equipment
and online
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Collaboration with teachers

26. Manalapan-Englishtown, NJ
5 Best Practices for PARCC Implementation
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Start Now
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Find the right provider and seek referrals
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Teachers are teaching experts
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Empower teachers with technology
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Fast as possible by as slow as necessary

27. Librarian piece of the puzzle

29. Resources
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PARCC website
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New Jersey PARCC website
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Rethinking Learning
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Ode to the Librarian
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ISTE NETS-S Standards
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Considering the Next Generation Assessments
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Learning 4 Life
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Standards Based Vision
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Common Core Basics
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NJ Technology Core Curriculum Standards
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How one school district reaied itself for PARCC implementation

30. Resources
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Glen Warren
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AASL and the Common Core
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School librarians and the Common Core
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Common Core Crosswalk