Curriculum Development Plan 2012 – 2015

 Overview of Curriculum Development ◦ Standards Based Curriculum/Child-centered learning  Common Core SS, Diocesan Standards, NGSSS-Florida ◦ Standards Based Assessment- Performance  Students  Teachers  Administrators  Prior Knowledge  Essential Questions

What knowledge are you bringing to this session that you have learned from prior sessions. Academic Vocabulary (2 minutes)

 How do I best prepare my students for College and Career Readiness? A.k.a  What headache medicine best cures my Common Core?

Foundations  Create a train the trainer model to implement curriculum development initiatives using instructional coaches as the hedge pins for success.  Procure National Speaker For Curriculum Development.  Schedule Three Large Group Gatherings.  Introduce and implement UBD.  Introduce the CCSS document and theory focusing on ELA  Develop a digital Professional Learning Community for the Instructional coaches to be expanded to faculties mid year. Edmodo  Create Focus Group meetings to facilitate the transference of information and assist the IC’s

 Plan and Build Foundational year of introduction of UBD, and Common Core Standards focusing on ELA, Supporting knowledge and practices  Build and Develop  Implementation of Language and ELA and Expansion into the CCSS Math Standards

  Continued Professional Development in Best Strategies, Powerful Practices.  Assessment and Data Interpretation  Alignment of formal documents to effectively represent progressive movement in the Curriculum Plan.

 October Professional Development  Writing to Source, Writing to Secondary Sources  Math Teachers K-12 are invited to participate in an online course offered by Catapult Learning.  February Professional Development  Implementing mathematic standards in the classroom environment. K-12

◦ Best strategies ◦ Powerful practices ◦ Digital learning ◦ rubrics ◦ Blended classrooms ◦ Flipped classrooms  CCSS is the tip of the Iceberg with a much deeper and dense base close reading rigor scaffolding alignment child-centering learning assessment rubrics PLCs

a.k.a Excederin  Focus Points  Know the Document  Understand the C&C Readiness Goal  Begin to peel the layers of curriculum, teaching/learning strategies, mapping, classroom management, professional development, staff training, parent education

 Edmodo.com code  CPALMS.com  GREAT SITES AND ORGANZIATIONS  Simplek12.com  Teachingchannel.org  Education  Pinterest.com  ASCD

Assessment Administrators’ Meeting October National Speaker on Data and Assessment Training- Administrators and Instructional Coaches How Teachers Can Turn Data into Action Looking at instructional gaps and assessment

 October Professional Development  Math Strategies and Assessment  8:30am – 12:30pm  Math teachers only  October 15- Pinellas County K-5  October 16- Hillsborough County K-5  October 17- Grades 6-12 Middle School and High School to include articulation time

 February Professional Development  Assessments and Data Value  Feb 3- High School  Feb 5- Northern and Hillsborough  Feb 6- Pinellas

 Unit by Design  Instructional Coaches  – ELA  ELA and Math  ELA, Math, extend to remaining core subject– ideally all subjects

 Florida Core Standards  Next Generation Standards  CPALMS  Common Core State Standards

 UBD  CCCI - Catholic ID, rubrics, tutorial, templates  School Templates  Consider use of IC and in-service week PD