1. What’s New in Education?

2. Context and Timeline
August 2010: CA State Board of Ed adopts ELA and Math Common Core Standards
November 2012: CA State Board of Ed adopts new ELD standards
September 2013: CA State Board of Ed adopts Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
January 2014: List of math instructional materials available
Spring 2014: Pilot testing for Smarter Balanced ELA and Math tests
Spring 2015: First Smarter Balanced ELA and Math tests
November 2015: List of ELA instructional materials available
July 2016: New History/Social Science Framework
March 2017: ELPAC pilot (replacement for CELDT); summative 2018—includes NGSS
April 2017: NGSS Science pilot; actual test 2018
January 2020: VAPA Standards Revision project

3. Why We Need to Adhere to These Guidelines
Annual Williams inspections
Categorical Program Monitoring (CPM—random selection)
STUDENT SUCCESS!!!

4. What ESD has done
October 2012: Began work on ELA and Math CCSS Units; yearly revisions
February 2014: ESD team rejection of the CCSS math materials (too “CST”)
October 2014: CORE grant awarded
September-October 2015: Project Read Training
February 2016: Begin using Project Read
August 2016: Train/use DRA
September 2016: Guided Reading Lesson Plans
November 2016: Daily 5
February 2017: PLCs

5. What’s Next? Integrated/Designated ELD 2017-2018
Writing Units of Study
6-8 New Math adoption
K-5 Math adoption pilot
Begin NGSS training
Testing with new ELPAC
Testing with new CAASPP Science Test

6. Summary
We have a long way to go, but we are in good company. Every school district in California has this same list in front of them.
Our “detour” to work on literacy will make the rest of the work easier to navigate. Students will have greater success on the reading section of the ELPAC and will have more access to NGSS.
Preliminary data is positive and shows that our literacy work is paying off.