September 9, :30 pm – 1:45 pm Featured Presenters: Brian Sevier, Standards Project Director, CDE Jenny Arzberger, Educator Preparation Project Manager, DHE Colorado Academic Standards and Curriculum Samples for Higher Education Leaders

C OLORADO D EPARTMENT OF H IGHER E DUCATION C OLORADO D EPARTMENT OF E DUCATION STATE OF COLORADO Webinar TopicsDate/TimeFeatured Presenters Counselor Info (Graduation Guidelines, endorsed diploma, ICAP’s,) August 9, :00-2:30 pm Emmy Glancy, Academic Policy Officer Misti Ruthven, Manager of the Office of Postsecondary Readiness Colorado READ ActAugust 23, :00-12:30 pm Pati Montgomery, Executive Director of the Office of Literacy Dian Prestwich, Assistant Director of the Office of Literacy Jenny Arzberger, Educator Preparation Project Manager Colorado Academic Standards & Curriculum Samples September 9, :30-1:45 pm Brian Sevier, Standards Project Director Jenny Arzberger, Educator Preparation Project Manager SB Implementation: Professional Practice DATE CHANGE: September 13, :30-1:45 pm Courtney Cabrera, Educator Effectiveness Unit Dawn Pare, Educator Effectiveness Unit Jenny Arzberger, Educator Preparation Project Manager SB Implementation: Student Growth September 23, :30-1:45 pm Sed Keller, Educator Effectiveness Unit Jenny Arzberger, Educator Preparation Project Manager CDE / DHE Collaborative Webinar Series For up to date information including agendas, login information, and recorded webinars, locate our website, like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. websiteFacebookTwitter

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Office of Standards and Instructional Support The Colorado Academic Standards and Colorado’s District Sample Curriculum Project Dr. Brian Sevier Standards Project Director The Colorado Academic Standards and the Common Core State Standards on/index.asp

Office of Standards and Instructional Support Colorado’s Standards: Keys to Transformation Fewer Expectations with Greater Depth Concepts and Skills Ending the “culture of coverage” Designed with the End in Mind Backward design P-13 vertical progression Require Application of Knowledge 21 st century skills Mastery: Application and transfer Focus on “All students, All standards” 10 content areas + Academic language

Office of Standards and Instructional Support Collaboration Self Direction Information Literacy Invention Critical Thinking “Think Deep, Think Different” Collaboration “Working Together, Learning Together” Invention “Creating Solutions” Self Direction “Own Your Learning” Information Literacy “Untangling the Web” 21 st Century Skills

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Office of Standards and Instructional Support Colorado’s Approach to the Common Core in ELA and Math  Use the Colorado Academic Standards (CAS) template  Align essential components of CAS – 21 st century skills (SB 212) – Postsecondary and workforce readiness (SB 212) – Integrate personal financial literacy (HB 1168)

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Office of Standards and Instructional Support Colorado’s Paradigm Shift… All Students, All Standards Standards Curriculum Instruction Content and Skills, Horizontal and Vertical Alignment, Mastery, Disciplinary Literacy Focus, Coherence, Rigor

Office of Standards and Instructional Support Focus, Coherence, Rigor Design Principles and Instructional Shifts:  Focus on the standards, the concepts and skills graduates need for the 21 st century.  Coherence is evident in the interconnections of concepts and skills across grades and in and between disciplines.  Rigor requires fluency, application, and deep understanding for mastery.

Office of Standards and Instructional Support Focus: Grade Level Expectations Old Standards 1. Many standards 2. List of content 3. Broad/Vague 4. Grade Spans 5. Wish list heavy Colorado Academic Standards 1. Fewer Standards 2. Transferable Concepts & Skills 3. Specific 4. Grade level points of mastery toward Postsecondary and Workforce Readiness 5. Essentials

Office of Standards and Instructional Support Vertical Coherence: Vertical Progressions PGC: Analyze and practice rights, roles, and responsibilities of citizens. Grade LevelGrade Level Expectation High SchoolResearch, formulate positions, and engage in appropriate civic participation to address local, state, and national issues or policies Seventh GradeCompare how various nations define the rights, responsibilities, and roles of citizens Fifth GradeThe foundations of citizenship in the United States Third GradeRespecting the views and rights of others is a key components of a democratic society Second GradeResponsible community members advocate for their ideas

Office of Standards and Instructional Support Horizontal Coherence: Content Connections In Visual Arts, understanding familiar and unfamiliar cultures necessitates an examination of multiple perspectives in order to discern intended meanings. In Comprehensive Health and PE, an understanding of multiple perspectives and their influences on emotions, perceptions and behaviors allows students to manage their behaviors and develop understanding, tolerance, and compassion for others. In Social Studies, multiple perspectives develop students’ ability to understand how definitions of citizenship are culturally, nationally, politically, and socially constructed. Multiple Perspectives

Office of Standards and Instructional Support Rigor: Mastery Citizenship Practices Analyze multiple perspectives Participate in democratic decision making Demonstrate leadership and team-member responsibilities Advocate for ideas Respect the views and rights of others Engage in appropriate civic participation to address local, state, and national issues or policies.

Office of Standards and Instructional Support Imagine a classroom 50 years ago. Does it look any different today?

Office of Standards and Instructional Support 3 Areas to Shift Planning Classroom Environment Instruction

Office of Standards and Instructional Support Traditional Classroom vs. Today’s Classroom Coverage-centered “inch deep, mile wide” Idea-centered - facts provide a foundation for understanding conceptual, transferable ideas. Intellectually shallow lacks a conceptual focus to create a factual/conceptual brain synergy Intellectual depth -a “conceptual lens,” or focus, requires mental processing on the factual and conceptual levels-- producing intellectual depth in thinking and understanding. Inability to transfer factual knowledge facts do not transfer; locked in time, place, or situation. Concepts and Generalizations Transfer allows the brain to make connections and see patterns. Fails to meet the intellectual demands of the 21 st century Develops the intellect to handle a world of increasing complexity and accelerating change.

Office of Standards and Instructional Support Standards and Instructional Support Team  Support tools for the implementation of the Colorado Academic Standards  Colorado’s District Sample Curriculum Project  Transition Action Plan

Office of Standards and Instructional Support Office of Standards and Instructional Support Curriculum All students, all standards Organized plan of instruction based on the CAS Mastery of grade level expectations 21 st century skills Intentional infusion of academic language Vertical alignment to ensure postsecondary and workforce readiness

Office of Standards and Instructional Support Standards Curriculum An organized plan of instruction that engages students in mastering the standards Textbooks Instructional Materials Resources

Office of Standards and Instructional Support Colorado’s District Sample Curriculum Project Rationale/origins The Colorado Department of Education (CDE) defines curriculum as an organized plan of instruction for engaging students in mastering the standards. This curriculum project originated as a response to increasing requests from Colorado educators for voluntary-use curriculum samples based on the new Colorado Academic Standards (CAS). From its beginnings, the field of educators across the state has been the driving force behind this project. This will continue to be the case as the project proceeds. As the next step in standards support for the state, the project is oriented around three fundamental goals:  Facilitating successful implementation of the CAS  Helping build the capacity of Colorado educators to create curriculum materials based on the standards  Bringing together Colorado’s educators to create a variety of samples that reflect the diversity of our school districts

Office of Standards and Instructional Support Colorado’s District Sample Curriculum Project Project phases and associated outcomes Phase One:  Develop a unit-overview template for all subjects and grades  Work with Colorado educators to create unit overview samples based on the CAS for all subjects and grades. Phase Two:  Conduct area workshops to build capacity around the process and products associated with the Project  Work with Colorado educators in workshops across the state to create additional (locally specific) unit overview samples Phase Three:  Develop an instructional-unit template for all subjects and grades  Work with Colorado educators to create unit samples for all subjects and grades based on select unit overviews

Office of Standards and Instructional Support Colorado’s District Sample Curriculum Project Phase One outcomes Participants  500+ educator participants  42 of 64 counties represented  61 of 178 districts represented Products  670 unit overviews- all content areas (k-12) and STEM (1 st, 8 th, high school)  Coded to the CAS  Teacher/educator authorship and district affiliation on every page of unit overviews Postings  January 31 st - Standards and Instructional website-Individual content area and Sample Curriculum Project webpages  Coming months eNet Colorado access (DREAM Marketplace)

Office of Standards and Instructional Support Colorado’s District Sample Curriculum Project Sample unit overviews The samples offer organizing structures for addressing the grade-level expectations (GLEs), evidence outcomes (EOs) and 21st century skills that build students' mastery of the standards at each grade level. The samples:  Represent the translation of the CAS into unit overviews for all (10) content areas, grades k-12  Illuminate possibilities for sequencing grade-level and content-specific standards across courses/years  Offer one possible foundation for exploring standards-based unit and lesson-plan development A closer look A 4 th Grade social studies sample provides an opportunity to:  Highlight major components of the template  Explain key terms  Offer possible uses for the samples

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Office of Standards and Instructional Support Colorado’s District Sample Curriculum Project  Samples: Represent the translation of the CAS into unit overviews for all (10) content areas, grades k-12 Illuminate possibilities for sequencing grade-level and content-specific standards across courses/years Offer one possible foundation for exploring standards-based unit and lesson- plan development  Design reflects emphasis on concepts and content in Colorado Academic Standards and Common Core State Standards Focus: Centers around ideas Coherence: Supports teaching to greater intellectual depth Rigor: Emphasizes knowledge TRANSFER and APPLICATION  Design reflects feedback from educators across the state with technical assistance from Dr. Lynn Erickson This is Colorado’s Template!

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Office of Standards and Instructional Support Colorado’s District Sample Curriculum Project Project phases and major outcomes Phase One (Completed-Fall 2012):  Colorado educators work together in grade level and content area teams to engage in process of translating Colorado Academic Standards into curriculum samples  Educators create unit overview samples based on the CAS for all subjects and grades  Standards and Instructional Support team produces Process Guide for creating unit overviews Phase Two (Completed-Spring 2013):  Standards and Instructional Support team conducts area workshops across the state to build capacity around the process and products associated with the Project  Hundreds of Colorado educators participate and begin process of adapting/modifying existing samples and/or creating their own unit overviews Phase Three (Fall 2013-Spring 2014):  Colorado educators create full instructional units for all subjects and grades based on select unit overviews created during Phase One

Office of Standards and Instructional Support Colorado’s District Sample Curriculum Project Phase Three – Fall 2013 In the Project’s final phase, the SIS team will travel across Colorado to work with educators in district settings to build the units, based on select samples (unit overviews), which will include learning strategies, resource suggestions, differentiation options, and assessment ideas. As with the first phase of the workshops, the SIS team will diligently pursue the participation of educators to ensure representation of the diverse teaching force and districts across Colorado. During a three-day workshop delivered within a district, a team of educators will produce one full instructional unit. This process reflects a model of educators working together to plan for the instruction of all students. Teams will be comprised of:  2 general education teachers (content specialists)  1 ELL teacher  1 Gifted and Talented teacher  1 Special education teacher  1 Title One teacher

Office of Standards and Instructional Support Standards and Instructional Support Project DirectorBrian The Arts: Dance, Drama and Theatre Arts, Music, Visual Arts Karol Comprehensive HealthPhyllis MathematicsMary Physical EducationTerry Reading, Writing and Communicating Charles Dana ScienceJoanna Social StudiesStephanie STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Violeta Colorado Academic Standards General Questions and Support Anna Huffman Bev Andes

Please join us for this special event featuring perspectives from leaders in the field, showcases of extraordinary educator preparation programs from across the state, and an opportunity to learn collaboratively and embed Colorado's initiatives into your courses! Please RSVP to inform our event planning on or before Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at: Please join us for this special event featuring perspectives from leaders in the field, showcases of extraordinary educator preparation programs from across the state, and an opportunity to learn collaboratively and embed Colorado's initiatives into your courses! Please RSVP to inform our event planning on or before Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at: