A Look at Common Core Standards and Alignment with AVID Strategies

CCSS and Change

CCSS and Change COMMON CORE IS NOT GOING TO CHANGE ANYTHING! Standards NECESSARILY GOING TO CHANGE ANYTHING! AT LEAST NOT ANYTHING OF MUCH IMPORTANCE Standards Assessments Accountability Textbooks CCSS and Change

INSTRUCTION COMMON CORE DOES NOT NECESSARILY AFFECT THE ONE THING THAT IS MOST IMPORTANT TO STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT INSTRUCTION

THE RESEARCH Teaching Strategies 0.60 Teacher Characteristics 0.49 John Hattie arranged groups of research findings in order from highest effect size to lowest Teaching Strategies Teacher Characteristics Curriculum Student Characteristics Home Characteristics School Characteristics 0.60 0.49 0.45 0.40 0.31 0.23 THE RESEARCH

Common Core does not necessarily affect either of those. Research shows that the two most powerful effects in education are teachers and the lessons they teach. Common Core does not necessarily affect either of those.

IF WE TRULY WANT TO CHANGE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT, WE NEED TO FOCUS ON: INSTRUCTION

IF WE TRULY WANT TO CHANGE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT, WE NEED TO FOCUS ON: WICOR

WICOR WRITING READING INQUIRY COLLABORATION ORGANIZATION Cornell Notes/Learning Logs Quickwrites and Reflections Process Writing Peer Evaluation Authentic Writing READING Deep Reading Strategies Note-Taking Graphic Organizers Vocabulary Building Summarizing Reciprocal Teaching INQUIRY Skilled Questioning Techniques Costa’s Levels of Thinking Socratic Seminars Tutorials Investigations Questions that Guide Research COLLABORATION Socratic Seminars Tutorials Philosophical Chairs Group Activities Peer Editing Groups Service Learning ORGANIZATION Binders and organizational tools Calendars, planners, and agendas Graphic organizers A focused note-taking system Tutorials and study groups Project planning and SMART goals WICOR

READING Anchor Standards Key Ideas and Details Craft and Structure Pre-reading inside and outside of text (R) Quickwrites/Reflections (W) Focused Cornell Notes (WOR) Marking, charting, annotating text, critical reading (R) Graphic Organizers (R) Summarizing (R) Dialectic Journals (W) Interactive Notebooks (W) Reciprocal Teaching (R) Socratic Seminars/Phil. Chairs (C) Anchor Standards Key Ideas and Details Craft and Structure Integration of Knowledge and Ideas Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity READING

WRITING Anchor Standards Text Types and Purposes Quickwrites and Reflections (W) Focused Cornell Notes (WOR) Process Writing (W) Authentic Writing – Dialectic Journals/ Interactive Notebooks (W) Research (I) Learning Logs (W) Anchor Standards Text Types and Purposes Production and Distribution of Writing Research to Build and Present Knowledge Range of Writing WRITING

Focused Note-taking and Common Core Standards

SPEAKING AND LISTENING Socratic Seminars (IC) Philosophical Chairs (C) Tutorials (C) Reciprocal Teaching (R) Peer Evaluation (W) Questions that Guide Research (I) Group Activities and Projects (C) Anchor Standards Comprehension and Collaboration Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas SPEAKING AND LISTENING

the Common Core/ Depth of Knowledge AVID Tutorials and the Common Core/ Depth of Knowledge

LANGUAGE Deep Reading Activities (R) Vocabulary Building (R) Anchor Standards Conventions of Standard English Knowledge of Language Vocabulary Acquisition and Use Deep Reading Activities (R) Vocabulary Building (R) Process Writing (W) Peer Evaluation(W) Peer Editing Groups (C) LANGUAGE

You already have AVID experts at your school and at your county office Path trainings, Critical Reading, Summer Institute, and AVID@Home are available RIMS AVID staff can do WICOR walkthroughs Coordinators attend Coordinator Meetings for WICOR updates Each school’s Site Team is set up to spread AVID schoolwide Schoolwide AVID

Call to Action As you collaborate with your Site Team, remember: New standards are not magical and alone cannot change student outcomes. What teachers do in front of the classroom is more important than anything else. You already have layers of experts in AVID WICOR strategies. Spend your time focusing on what’s important . . . instruction. Call to Action