1. A Look at Common Core Standards
and Alignment with AVID Strategies

2. CCSS and Change

3. CCSS and Change COMMON CORE IS NOT GOING TO CHANGE ANYTHING! Standards
NECESSARILY
GOING TO CHANGE ANYTHING!
AT LEAST NOT ANYTHING OF MUCH IMPORTANCE
Standards
Assessments
Accountability
Textbooks
CCSS and Change

4. INSTRUCTION COMMON CORE DOES NOT NECESSARILY
AFFECT THE ONE THING THAT IS MOST IMPORTANT TO STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
INSTRUCTION

5. THE RESEARCH Teaching Strategies 0.60 Teacher Characteristics 0.49
John Hattie arranged groups of research findings in order from highest effect size to lowest
Teaching Strategies
Teacher Characteristics
Curriculum
Student Characteristics
Home Characteristics
School Characteristics
0.60
0.49
0.45
0.40
0.31
0.23
THE RESEARCH

6. Common Core does not necessarily affect either of those.
Research shows that the two most powerful effects in education are teachers and the lessons they teach.
Common Core does not necessarily affect either of those.

7. IF WE TRULY WANT TO CHANGE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT, WE NEED TO FOCUS ON:
INSTRUCTION

8. IF WE TRULY WANT TO CHANGE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT, WE NEED TO FOCUS ON:
WICOR

9. WICOR WRITING READING INQUIRY COLLABORATION ORGANIZATION
Cornell Notes/Learning Logs
Quickwrites and Reflections
Process Writing
Peer Evaluation
Authentic Writing
READING
Deep Reading Strategies
Note-Taking
Graphic Organizers
Vocabulary Building
Summarizing
Reciprocal Teaching
INQUIRY
Skilled Questioning Techniques
Costa’s Levels of Thinking
Socratic Seminars
Tutorials
Investigations
Questions that Guide Research
COLLABORATION
Socratic Seminars
Tutorials
Philosophical Chairs
Group Activities
Peer Editing Groups
Service Learning
ORGANIZATION
Binders and organizational tools
Calendars, planners, and agendas
Graphic organizers
A focused note-taking system
Tutorials and study groups
Project planning and SMART goals
WICOR

10. READING Anchor Standards Key Ideas and Details Craft and Structure
Pre-reading inside and outside of text (R)
Quickwrites/Reflections (W)
Focused Cornell Notes (WOR)
Marking, charting, annotating text, critical reading (R)
Graphic Organizers (R)
Summarizing (R)
Dialectic Journals (W)
Interactive Notebooks (W)
Reciprocal Teaching (R)
Socratic Seminars/Phil. Chairs (C)
Anchor Standards
Key Ideas and Details
Craft and Structure
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
READING

11. WRITING Anchor Standards Text Types and Purposes
Quickwrites and Reflections (W)
Focused Cornell Notes (WOR)
Process Writing (W)
Authentic Writing – Dialectic Journals/ Interactive Notebooks (W)
Research (I)
Learning Logs (W)
Anchor Standards
Text Types and Purposes
Production and Distribution of Writing
Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Range of Writing
WRITING

12. Focused Note-taking and Common Core Standards

13. SPEAKING AND LISTENING
Socratic Seminars (IC)
Philosophical Chairs (C)
Tutorials (C)
Reciprocal Teaching (R)
Peer Evaluation (W)
Questions that Guide Research (I)
Group Activities and Projects (C)
Anchor Standards
Comprehension and Collaboration
Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
SPEAKING AND LISTENING

14. the Common Core/ Depth of Knowledge
AVID Tutorials and
the Common Core/ Depth of Knowledge

15. LANGUAGE Deep Reading Activities (R) Vocabulary Building (R)
Anchor Standards
Conventions of Standard English
Knowledge of Language
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Deep Reading Activities (R)
Vocabulary Building (R)
Process Writing (W)
Peer Evaluation(W)
Peer Editing Groups (C)
LANGUAGE

16. You already have AVID experts at your school and at your county office
Path trainings, Critical Reading, Summer Institute, and are available
RIMS AVID staff can do WICOR walkthroughs
Coordinators attend Coordinator Meetings for WICOR updates
Each school’s Site Team is set up to spread AVID schoolwide
Schoolwide AVID

17. Call to Action As you collaborate with your Site Team, remember:
New standards are not magical and alone cannot change student outcomes.
What teachers do in front of the classroom is more important than anything else.
You already have layers of experts in AVID WICOR strategies.
Spend your time focusing on what’s important instruction.
Call to Action