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 The BCPS Strategic Plan has been extended through June 30, 2012  Task Force Recommendations will become action steps and objectives for the new Strategic Plan

 November is Family Literacy Month!  Just Read, Florida Celebrate Literacy Week: January 23-27, 2012

+ Preparing America’s Students for College and Career

+  Each state had its own set of academic standards, meaning public education students in each state were learning at different levels  All students had to be prepared to compete with not only their American peers in the next state, but with students from around the world Past Standards Initiatives

+ Common Core State Standards Initiative  A state‐led effort to create the next generation of standards for K-12 Mathematics and for K-12 English Language Arts and 6-12 Literacy in Social Studies/History, Science and Technical Subjects  A common set of K-12 standards to ensure that all students, no matter where they live, are prepared for success in college and work  Internationally benchmarked to ensure that our students are college and career ready in a 21 st century, globally competitive society  45 states and D.C. have adopted the CCSS

+ Vision  Establishes a vision of what it means to be a literate person in the twenty-first century  Students who readily undertake the close, attentive reading that is the heart of understanding and enjoying complex works of literature  Students habitually perform the critical reading necessary to pick carefully through the staggering amount of information  Students actively seek wide, deep and thoughtful engagement with high-quality literary and informational text that builds knowledge, enlarges experiences and broadens worldviews  Students demonstrate cogent reasoning and use evidence that is essential for deliberations and responsible citizenship

+ Year Grade K Fully Implement CCSS Implement Text Complexity Implement Text Complexity Implement Text Complexity Implement Text Complexity CCSS Literacy Standards in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects Fully Implement CCSS Fully Implement CCSS Implement Text Complexity Implement Text Complexity Implement Text Complexity CCSS Literacy Standards in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects Fully Implement CCSS Fully Implement CCSS Implement Blended NGSSS and CCSS Implement Blended NGSS and CCSS Fully Implement and Assess CCSS Fully Implement and Assess CCSS ~ fully implement CCSS; assess FCAT ~ fully implement CCSS; assess PARCC

Key Advances of the Common Core ANCHORED IN COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS

Speaking and Listening Writing Design and Organization: English/Language Arts/Literacy Standards for English/Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects K-5 Standards for English/Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects K-5 Standards for English/Language Arts 6-12 Standards for English/Language Arts 6-12 Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science and Technical Subjects 6-12 Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science and Technical Subjects 6-12 Three Main Sections Four Strands with College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards K-12 Reading Foundational Skills (K-5) Literature Informational Reading Foundational Skills (K-5) Literature Informational Language 10 standards 6 standards 11

+ What skills do I need to be College and Career Ready? Reading Writing Speaking/ Listening Speaking/ Listening Language

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+ How will I get there? Progression of Skills

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+ Complex Text... Has rich/challenging vocabulary Has multiple levels of meaning Has complex structure Requires specific content knowledge One of the key requirements of the Common Core State Standards for Reading is that all students must be able to comprehend texts of steadily increasing complexity as they progress through school. 18

+ The text exemplars are supplemented by brief performance tasks that further clarify the meaning of the Standards. These sample tasks illustrate specifically the application of the Standards to texts of sufficient complexity, quality, and range. Appendix B

+ Students (with prompting and support from the teacher) read “Garden Helpers” in National Geographic Young Explorers and demonstrate their understanding of the main idea of the text —not all bugs are bad—by retelling key details. [RI.K.2] Students summarize the plot of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince and then reflect on the challenges facing the characters in the story while employing those and other details in the text to discuss the value of inquisitiveness and exploration as a theme of the story. [RL.5.2] Students compare and contrast the effect Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “Paul Revere’s Ride” has on them to the effect they experience from a multimedia dramatization of the event presented in an interactive digital map, analyzing the impact of different techniques employed that are unique to each medium. [RL.6.7] Students compare George Washington’s Farewell Address to other foreign policy statements, such as the Monroe Doctrine, and analyze how both texts address similar themes and concepts regarding “entangling alliances.” [RI.9–10.9]

+ CCSS Assessments  In Sept. 2010, the U.S. Department of Education awarded grants to the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) to develop state assessments  PARCC is an alliance of 25 states working together to develop a common set of K-12 assessments in English and math anchored in what it takes to be ready for college and careers  PARCC is state-led (Massachusetts Commissioner is Chair) and a subset of PARCC states make up its Governing Board  Florida is fiscal agent for PARCC consortium & a member of the Governing Board  Achieve is the PARCC project manager

+ Role of the Governing States  Governing States will pilot and field test the assessment system components during the 2011–12, 2012–13 and 2013–14 school years, and administer the new assessment system during the school year  The chief state school officers of the Governing States serve on the PARCC Governing Board and make decisions on behalf of the Partnership on major policies and operational procedures  Governing States will use the results from the PARCC assessments in their state accountability systems

+ PARCC: High-Quality Assessments End-of-Year Assessment Innovative, computer-based items Performance-Based Assessment (PBA) Extended tasks Applications of concepts and skills Summative assessment for accountability Formative assessment Early Assessment Early indicator of student knowledge and skills to inform instruction, supports, and PD E/LA/Literac y Speaking Listening 23 Flexible Mid-Year Assessment Performance-based Emphasis on hard to measure standards Potentially summative

PARCC Timeline SY Development begins SY First year pilot/field testing and related research and data collection SY Second year pilot/field testing and related research and data collection SY Full administration of PARCC assessments SY Launch and design phase Summer 2015 Set achievement levels, including college-ready performance levels

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