1. Albany Unified School District Professional Development January 3, 2017
Presented by:
Sabrina Greiten, Assistant Superintendent, Curriculum, Instruction & Staff Development

2. Agenda: First Hour Introductions Know, What to Know, Learned (KWL)
Partner up across content areas (5 per group)
Know, What to Know, Learned (KWL)
Group Activity
Common Core State Standards (CCSS)
Amador County USD Data
English Language Arts Common Core Standards
Break (10 minutes)

3. Agenda Second Hour Share Out KWL The Six English Language Arts Shifts
Groups (10 minutes)
The Six English Language Arts Shifts
Group Activities
Literacy Common Core Standards
Digital Chalkboard
Break (10 minutes)

4. Agenda: Third Hour Share Out KWL
Groups (10 minutes)
Long-range, collaborative planning ideas
Translating to daily practice

5. Agenda: First Hour Introductions
Partner up across content areas (5 per group)

6. Agenda: First Hour
Know, What to Know, Learned (KWL)
Group Activity

7. Agenda: First Hour
Common Core State Standards (CCSS)

8. Agenda: First Hour Do you know Amador USD data? (Pair Share)
Amador County USD Data
DataQuest Link
Do you know Amador USD data? (Pair Share)
% ELA Met Exceed (all students)?
% ELA Met/ Exceed (SES Students)?
% Students UC/ CSU Ready (A-G Courses Completed)?
% of students who come from poverty?

9. Agenda: First Hour English Language Common Core Standards
Overview of ELA CCSS in 8 Minutes
(Video)
Please listen for:
Literacy Standard Domains (6)
Categories of Standards (5)
Why do we need to understand Categories of Standard?
How were the CCSS built/ crafted?
Why is it helpful to follow a standards?
What are the Shifts in Literacy? (3)
(Video Pause at 3:50)
Group Activity: Explain how this information compare with your group’s prior knowledge of the ELA CCSS?

10. Agenda: First Hour English Language Common Core Standards
Overview of ELA CCSS in 8 Minutes
(Video)
Please listen for:
In which ways does the video suggest instruction should change?
Why shouldn’t we separate out standards?
Why is pacing important?
(Finish at 6:16)
Group Activity:
Review the ELA CCSS (6-12). What does your group notice?
Follow a standard from 6th to 12th grade. What do you notice?

11. Agenda: First Hour Break (10 minutes)

12. Agenda Second Hour Share Out KWL The Six English Language Arts Shifts
Groups (10 minutes)
The Six English Language Arts Shifts
Group Activity I (15 minutes)
Group Activity II (15 minutes)
Digital Chalkboard (15 minutes)
Break (10 minutes)

13. Agenda Second Hour
Share Out KWL
Groups (10 minutes)

14. Agenda Second Hour The Six English Language Arts Shifts
Video: ELA Shifts
Listen For:
What does the students reading comprehension data suggest?
What are the Shifts intended to do?
Standards focus on complexity and range. What does this mean? What impact does this have on all content areas?
Students who are proficient reads are able to….
What is writing to sources?
Argument?
Academic vocabulary. How does it differ from content vocabulary?
Read like a and write like a ----?

15. Group Activity (10 minutes):
1) Review the literacy standards handout (provided) and discuss what impact the design has on curriculum teams, whole-site planning, & collaboration.
2) Reflect on Instruction. What impacts on instruction does your group identify, as a result of the ELA Literacy CCSS?

16. Agenda Second Hour CCSS Professional Learning Modeules for Educators
Digital Chalkboard – Unpacking Standards
(Click below)

17. Agenda: First Hour Break (10 minutes)

18. Agenda: Third Hour Share Out KWL
Groups (10 minutes)
Long-range, collaborative planning ideas
Key Elements for Effective Teacher Collaboration
Teacher Collaboration: Spreading Best Practices School-wide
Translating to daily practice

19. Agenda: Third Hour
Share Out KWL
Groups (10 minutes)

20. Agenda: Third Hour Long-range, collaborative planning ideas
Key Elements for Effective Teacher Collaboration
Teacher Collaboration: Spreading Best Practices School-wide
Group Activity:
What impact does can teacher collaboration have on student learning?
What ideas stood out for you? Why?

21. Agenda: Third Hour Translating to Daily Practice
Envision Teacher Collaboration
Best Practices Collaborative Teams
Solution Tree: Collaborative Teams
Your Team May be Suffering From CD
Optimality Training

22. Group Activity Strategies to start an enormous task? Your Team(s)?
Pacing: Year 1, Year 2, Year 3
Site and District Support – If you had the time, what would you do to build a successful team?
What are needs other than time (e.g. knowledge and skills needed for you, for your team? (e.g. Team Knowledge, Collaboration Skills, CCSS Content Knowledge, etc.)
What is the first step?

23. Reflection Group KWL: Complete it (10 minutes) Real-Time Survey
Results

24. Surprise!
Pathways to the Common Core
Calkins, Ehrenworth, Lehman

25. Thank you! Questions, Comments, Concerns and/ or suggestions?
Sabrina Greiten
Direct Office Line:
Cell/ Text Phone:

26. Resources
What’s cooking in the Common Core?
Funny Common Core principal video
Funny CCSS Answer choices
Funny Common Core
Literacy Standards:
Common Core ELA Literacy Standards & Shifts
Close Reading with Informational tex ELA
Close reading text 10th grade
Close reading in History
Science Common Core Literacy
Close Reading in Math
Close Reading math
Common Core writing strategies
Great --Common Core world history reading strategies:
Claims evidence and reasoning in Science
6 ELA shifts
6 ELA Shifts
ELA Flavor
ELA Common Core
ELA shifts
CCSS Professional Learning modeules