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 Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects  Common Core State Standards for Mathematics

 CCR  Common Core = College & Career Readiness  Provide a common definition of college and career readiness in ELA and Mathematics

 NOT new national standards  NOT from US Department of Education  NOT Common Core Curriculum  85/15 split  Aligned with international benchmarks

 ELA Common core recommends content  ELA Common core mandates that instruction in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language is a shared responsibility  Math Common Core mandates skills for all

 Michigan: Text Complexity  A “staircase” of increasing complexity  Progressive development of reading comprehension through all grades to achieve constant gains in increasingly sophisticated text  80/20

 78.html 78.html  CCSS ELA/Literacy Appendix B: Text Exemplars and Sample Performance Tasks CCSS ELA/Literacy Appendix B: Text Exemplars and Sample Performance Tasks

 Students compare and contrast a firsthand account of African American ballplayers in the Negro Leagues to a secondhand account of their treatment found in books such as Kadir Nelson’s We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball, attending to the focus of each account and the information provided by each. [RI.4.6]

 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 evaluate the premises of James M. McPherson’s argument regarding why Northern soldiers fought in the Civil War by corroborating the evidence provided from the letters and diaries of these soldiers with other primary and secondary sources and challenging McPherson’s claims where appropriate. [RH.11–12.8]

State standards determine the content…  LEAs determine Curriculum and Pedagogy  Skills for 21 st Century Learners  AASL Crosswalk

 Crosswalk of the Common Core Standards and the Standards for the 21st-Century Learner  AASL to CC  CC to AASL

 Follow an inquiry-based process in seeking knowledge in curricular subjects and make the real world connection for using this process in own life.  Nothing works in isolation.

 Turn to a partner – practical applications?

 District Curriculum Documents  Lesson Plans  Observations  Student Work

Reading:  A diverse array of classic and contemporary literature  Challenging informational texts in a range of subjects Writing:  Research -short, focused projects, in-depth research

Speaking and Listening  Gain, evaluate, and present increasingly complex information, ideas, and evidence through listening and speaking as well as through media.

 Complexity of text and text analysis  Information text in content areas  Constructing arguments; supporting details  Working with primary, secondary sources  Reading comprehension

 Standards apply to ELLs & SWD, too

Media and Technology  Just as media and technology are ingrained into school and life in the 21 st century, skills related to media use (both production of media and critical analysis and production of media) are integrated throughout the standards

 SBAC – Smarter Balanced Assessment System  Must offer an online version  Must take advantage of technology for reporting speed  Must take advantage of technology to be relevant

 Ensure all students have access to the technology needed to participate in each component (summative, interim/benchmark, formative)

 Support research on how to use technology to increase access for all students, in particular those needing accommodations  Use Computer Adaptive Testing engine to maximize accuracy for individual students across the CCSS  Standardized accommodations policy and administration practices across states to ensure comparability

 Use technology to efficiently deliver training, resources, reports and data; social networks for teachers to develop and disseminate effective CCSS curriculum and instructional tools  Create innovative item types that utilize technology and represent real-world contexts

 Assessment window vs. single day administration  Multiple opportunities to assess  Quick results available to support instruction  Emphasis on problem-solving and critical thinking

 Human scorers taken from ranks of teachers  Online training on hand-scoring  Online certification as a hand-scorer  Online monitoring of rater performance  Validation hand-scoring of samples of AI-scored tasks  Our experience with teacher-led scoring and rangefinding indicates that it is some of the best professional development that we provide to educators

 Michigan’s online initiatives  Pilot in 2006  Pilot in 2011 (English Language Proficiency)  Pilot in 2012 (Alternate Assessments)  Pilots leading up to operational adoption of SMARTER/Balanced Assessment Consortium products in 2014/15

Michigan Constitutional Amendment barring unfunded mandates

 Getting to know the CCSS/Alignment work  2010 MEAP/2011MME remain the same  State focus will be on technical assistance  Implementation of CCSS in classrooms  2011 MEAP/2012 MME remain the same  State focus will be on instruction/professional development

 2012 MEAP minimally modified as necessary to reflect the CCSS  2013 MME remains the same  State focus will be on student learning  2013 MEAP based on 2012 model  2014 MME remains the same  State focus will be on preparing for new assessments from SMARTER Consortium  Full implementation - Instruction and assessment based on CCSS

 Literacy  Inquiry  Curriculum  Pedagogy  Same expectations for SWD & ELLs  Assessment  Technology

 Kathleen McBroom 