1. Literacy in the High School John Williams, Sr. Director Catherine Trudell, Sr. Admin

3. What does College and Career Readiness mean?

4. HS Administrator Wiki www.hsprograms.pbworks.com

5. Resources to Stay Informed Administrative Wiki  Content Updates- Stay informed!  Principal and API meetings- ask questions!  Common Core & Assessments  PD & Training  Text Complexity for School Leaders  Argument Training

6. Adler knew about CCSS…  Read and annotate the selection (we should model what we want the students to do)  Underline sections that directly relate to CCSS  Choose the one line that is most powerful in the excerpt- be ready to share the line and rationale with your table  What transformations have you already seen in your school? What do you want to see as you work towards deep implementation?

7. Common Core Tri-State Rubric Why does this matter? Teacher Evaluation Common Core Certification Phase III and IV Increase Graduation Rates and Students Who are College and Career Ready

8. Common Core Tri-State Rubric 1. Read each item 2. Highlight or check those items that are tied to your SIP Plan

9. What’s important?  What quantitative measure did you use to evaluate the text?  When you evaluated the qualitative features, what did you find that would challenge students?  How did you have students engage in those texts? Teacher Evaluation Standard 3: Teachers know the content they teach

10. What’s Important?  How did you construct the unit to provide students the opportunity to read and write as a means to learn the content?  What strategies are you using to develop the student’s vocabulary throughout the learning process?  How have you supported students as we move towards using evidence to support answers and assertions. Teacher Evaluation Standard 3: Teachers know the content they teach

11. What to ask?  How have you tried to cultivate the interest of the students in the unit?  What aspects of the curriculum tend to be difficult for students? How do you scaffold and support students?  How are you scaffolding the reading and writing in the classroom to make sure all students have the opportunity to engage in grade-level rigor.  What opportunities are present for students to direct their own learning?

12. What to ask?  How did you assess students throughout the unit?  What insights did you learn from those assessments?  What impact does the degree of learning demonstrated in this unit have on your next unit of study?  How are you using reading and writing to create opportunities for students to demonstrate learning? Teacher Evaluation Standard 4: Teachers facilitate learning for their students

13. Implementation Resources  Achieve the Core (www.achievethecore.org)www.achievethecore.org  CCSS Instructional Practice Guide CCSS Instructional Practice Guide  Readability-Score (Flesch-Kincaid) Readability-Score  Literacy Lifesavers Literacy Lifesavers  ACT Wiki ACT Wiki  Language Lessons/Model Common Core Lessons (ELA & SS) Language Lessons/Model Common Core Lessons  Engage NY