1. Davidson County Schools
Common Core and Essential Standards
Transition
Welcome! Tell teachers this is the first step in preparing for full implementation of the Common Core/Essential Standards in fall of We will share the DCS PD plan, as well as the components of the first training.

2. Transition Timeline: Fall 2011
September
CC/ES Training: Rationale, Structure, and Vocabulary of Standards
Math Practices (CC Team)
Planning Periods (District Team)
October
CC/ES Training: Crosswalks for Grades 6-8
November
CC/ES Training: Crosswalks for Grades 9-12
December/January
CC/ES Unpacking Documents for Grades 9-12
Planning Periods, Before or After School (PLCs)
Fall semester, all PD will be conducted during planning periods. This is due to the requirement of NC Falcon and other factors. Teachers will not miss class fall semester unless they require coverage due to not having common planning. December and January’s training (working with the unpacking documents) will be conducted in PLC’s with the CC/ES school leadership team. All other sessions will be led by the DCS leadership team.

3. Transition Timeline: Spring 2012
February
Essential Learning Outcomes (ELOs) as Learning Targets for all Content Areas
One-day Workshop (District Team, Leadership Team)
March
DCS Pacing Guides Written
April/May
Share/Revise ELOs and Pacing Guides
Half-Day (All Teachers)
Subject to change! Math may miss due to Goldenleaf grant and trainng. Our goal is to minimize time away from your students. February will mirror the ELO writing process of June 17, 2011 with literacy standards. March will be drafting pacing guides for use the following year. April/May will provide time to revise content ELOs and pacing. Possible to use some of the “extra” days given to us. Not sure at this point….details and dates to follow.

4. Transition Timeline Summer 2012-Spring 2013
Curriculum Mapping
(District Team, Leadership Team)
Fall 2012
Implementation of CC/ES
Continued Support, Share Sessions
Spring 2013
Revision, Refinement of Pacing Guides and Curriculum Maps
Tentative schedule of PD. Pacing before curriculum mapping to be implemented in the fall of During first full semester of implementation, continued support from district team, share sessions, etc. Spring of 2013 revise pacing guides and curriculum maps.

5. September 2011 CC/ES Training:
Rationale, Structure, and Vocabulary of Standards
First phase of PD for Common Core: Rationale (Why? Behind new standards), the Structure (accustomed to goals and objectives), Vocabulary (Domain, Cluster, Strand, Anchor Standard, etc.) Knowledge necessary to write ELOs and fully grasp new curricula.

6. Why new standards? New North Carolina Standard Course of Study:
Blue Ribbon Commission
Framework for Change
Response to Framework for Change
Fordham Institute Ratings of North Carolina Curricula
Move to complex thinking expected from 21st Century graduates
New North Carolina Standard Course of Study:
Common Core and Essential Standards
NCDPI has always revised curricula. This is a major overhaul of every curricula and the reasons are plenty.

7. Who wrote the standards?
Common Core initiative led by…
National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA)
Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)
Common Core Standards developed…
Teachers
School Administrators
Experts
Feedback for draft Common Core Standards provided by….
Postsecondary teachers (including community colleges)
Civil rights groups
English Language Learners (ELL) Groups
Students with disabilities
The federal government did NOT write these standards. As they are referred to as a “national” curriculum, this indicates a national assessment to benchmark state’s performance and that 44 states and the District of Columbia have adopted as their ELA and math curricula.

8. Why common standards? Disparate standards across states
Student mobility
Globally competition
Today’s jobs require different skills
North Carolina and several other states also received the Race to the Top grant by adopting these standards.

9. Why common standards in only English and Math?
“…these two subjects are skills, upon which students build skill sets in other subject areas. They are also the subjects most frequently assessed for accountability purposes.”

10. Common Core Structure Divided into two categories
College and Career Readiness Standards
Address what students are expected to learn when they graduate high school
ELA: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, and Language
Literacy: Reading, Writing (Speaking and Listening, Language)
Math Practices
K-12 Standards
Address expectations for elementary through high school
Posters were created from the overarching standards on June 17, More specific CCR standards for areas above.

11. Math Practices The “How” of Teaching Mathematics…
Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
Model with mathematics.
Use appropriate tools strategically.
Attend to precision.
Look for and make use of structure.
Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
Christy: Begin working with these in September. Other info….

12. Math Structure Conceptual Themes Algebra Number and Quantity Functions
Modeling
Geometry
Statistics and Probability

13. Design and Organization
Content Standards define what students should be able to do.
Clusters are groups of related standards.
Domains are larger groups that progress across grades.

14. English Language Arts Structure
Four Strands
Reading (Foundational K-5, Literature and Informational Text K-12)
Writing
Speaking and Listening
Language (Grammar and Vocabulary)

15. College and Career Readiness Standards for Writing
W.CCR.3

16. Format for ELA Standards
CCR Anchor Standard for Reading
R.CCR.10 Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently.
Strand
Standard

17. North Carolina Essential Standards
Who wrote these standards?
Written under the guidance of Lorin Anderson, author of the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy (RBT)
Prepare students to be globally competitive with 21st Century thinking
Based upon modern cognitive research
Categorizes “Knowledge” into four groups: Factual, Conceptual, Procedural and Meta-Cognitive
Essential standards were written by North Carolina under Lori Anderson’s guidance.

18. NC Essential Standards: Science
Based upon national standards
Inquiry-based instruction is critical in developing conceptual understanding of science
Conceptual understanding vital for success in twenty-first century
Integration of science content, science inquiry, experimentation and technological design
“hands on” and “minds on” instruction
“What” is tied to “how” things are known inextricably tied

19. NC Essential Standards: World Languages
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) established national proficiency scale (Novice Low-Superior)
What students should be able to do when they hear, speak, read, or write at each level
4 Essential Standards
Three Modes of Communication (Strands): Connections to Language and Literacy, Connections to Other Disciplines, Communities’
Goal: Comprehensive set of language skills developed and used for effective communication

20. NC Essential Standards: Arts Education

21. NC Essential Standards: Social Studies

22. NC Essential Standards: Healthful Living/Physical Education