The Standards and Instructional Support Team Standards-Inspired Planning: By Teachers for Teachers, The Future of Instructional Design Standards and Instructional Support:

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Office of Standards and Instructional Support  All students, all standards  Rigor- Systematic, methodical, and deep thinking  Relevancy-Authentic, meaningful, real-world and engaging work  Disciplinary Literacy-Working, thinking, talking, arguing as a… The Colorado Academic Standards: Focus and Instructional Priorities

Office of Standards and Instructional Support  The standards:  Illuminate/illustrate  Remind us  Refocus us  The standards can:  Validate  Support  Embolden  Transform The Colorado Academic Standards …why we became educators…. …our efforts to create the comprehensive, challenging, connected, and choice-broadening educational experiences we want for all students.

Office of Standards and Instructional Support  Colorado Academic Standards in ten content areas emphasize the whole child (Comprehensive Health and Physical Education; Dance; Drama and Theatre Arts; Mathematics; Music; Reading, Writing, and Communicating; Science; Social Studies; Visual Arts; World Languages)  Written by Coloradans for Colorado students  Heavy lift- especially for smaller/rural districts (CAS Summit 2012) The Colorado Academic Standards

Office of Standards and Instructional Support District Sample Curriculum Project: Big Picture From its beginning, the District Sample Curriculum Project has had a singular focus: to build the capacity of teachers to use their content expertise and passion for student learning to create samples that support teaching to student mastery of the Colorado Academic Standards. build the capacity Colorado Academic Standards

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

Office of Standards and Instructional Support Colorado’s District Sample Curriculum Project Rationale/origins  From its beginnings, the field of educators across the state has been the force behind this project. This will continue to be the case as the project and its outcomes are:  Driven by the field  Generated by the field  Relevant to the field 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 Today’s Goals Explore the processes utilized to create the units  Workshop trajectory (3-4 days with follow-up work editing and refining)  Major steps in unit construction of the units  Intentional curriculum design  Connections with Academic and Teacher Quality Standards Discuss the future of the District Sample Curriculum Project (DSCP)  Process Guide(s)  Future Opportunities

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-Winter 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 Unit Overviews Participants  500+ educator participants in 5 workshops and 2 external review cycles  47 of 64 Colorado counties represented  70+ of 178 Colorado school districts represented Products  700+ unit overviews- all content areas (k-12) and STEM (1 st, 8 th, high school)  All samples coded to the CAS-Ensuring attention to all Evidence Outcomes (indicators of mastery)  Teacher/educator authorship and district affiliation noted at the bottom of every unit overview Postings  Samples available in PDF and Word formats on the Standards and Instructional Support website-by individual content area and grade levelStandards and Instructional Support website  Process Guide and curriculum resources available on SIS website Process Guide and curriculum resources

Office of Standards and Instructional Support Teacher-Authored Samples Instructional Units During a three-day workshop a team of educators created an instructional unit designed to provide teachers with support for using their professional judgment to teach to student mastery of the standards-based generalizations, content, and skills of one selected overview. Teams were typically comprised of:  2 general education teachers (content specialists)  1 ELL teacher  1 Gifted and Talented teacher  1 Special education teacher  1 Title One teacher  100+ units developed and published on March 31, 2014 (one for each grade k-12 mathematics, reading, writing, and communicating, science, social studies, comprehensive health, visual arts, drama/theatre, dance, and music).developed and published

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Making Connections: Teacher Quality Standards and Self-Assessment Rubric I can identify the Teacher Quality Standards and Elements I utilized in Standards-Inspired Planning: By Teachers for Teachers, The Future of Instructional Design. How can this process support you in demonstrating your effectiveness?  Review the Teacher Quality Standards and Elements.  Highlight or star the elements the relate to the process you used to develop curriculum.  Write one a-ha that will support you in developing your curriculum unit next semester.  Be sure your name is on your paper and turn it in to Jenny.

Office of Standards and Instructional Support Unit Development-Personal Financial Literacy Moving Trains Strategy: an individual or organization who is highly motivated to lead, inspire, and elevate our profession by doing good work: work that is good in quality, good for the soul, and good for the world. Spring 2015  Standards and Instructional Support team is building one mathematics and one social studies unit in personal financial literacy for elementary grades  Units will be built in 3-day workshop this spring (dates TBD) following the processes you explored today  Participant-authors will receive a small stipend and will be recognized as authors on the CDE website and the published units Interested Authors submit one sentence describing why you’d like to participate to Jenny on or before Friday!