1. Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
Hebrew proverb

2. Implementing Rigorous and Relevant Curriculum, Assessment

3. International Center for Leadership in Education
Richard D.Jones, Ph.D.
Senior Consultant

4. Personality Quiz

5. Rigorous and Relevant Learning

6. Rigor

7. Relevance
My only
skill is
taking
tests.

8. All Students

9. List The following Hobby First Job Your Name Most successful
teaching experience
Education
Hero

10. ??? Why ??? Rigorous and Relevant Learning

11. burning issues for teachers?
Activity
What are the
burning issues for teachers?

12. Why
Rigor/
Relevance

13. Changing Nature of Work
Rigor and Relevance
Changing Nature of
Work

14. Accelerating Technology
                                                                      

15. Employment 1970’s
High Skill
Low Skill

16. Employment 1990’s
High Skill
Low Skill
Semi Skill

17. Employment 2010
High Skill
Low Skill
Semi Skill

18. 1970’s ’s

21. Focus for Professional Learning Community
Rigor and Relevance
Focus for
Professional
Learning
Community

22. Professional Learning
Community
Throughout our ten-year study, whenever we found an effective school, or an effective department within a school, without expection, that school or department has been a part of a collaborative professional learning community.
Milbury McLaughlin

23. Professional Learning
Community
Shared Values
Collaboration
Reflective Dialogue
Focus on Student Learning

24. An Overcrowded Curriculum
Rigor and Relevance
An Overcrowded Curriculum

25. McREL
Needed Time
15,465
Hours
Available Time
9,042
Hours

26. Teachers struggling to teach an overloaded curriculum!

27. Focus on Student Learning
Rigor and Relevance
Focus on
Student Learning

28. Teaching
VS.
Learning

29. Tool For School Alignment
Rigor and Relevance
Tool
For School
Alignment

30. Language Arts
Need
Standards H M L

31. Language Arts
Need
Test
Standards H
H or L M L

32. Language Arts
Need
Test
Instruction
Standards H
H or L L M
L - M
M - H

33. Alignment for Improving Instruction
Standards
State
Requirements
Instructional
Resources
Teacher
Materials
Content
Instruction
Courses
and
Programs
Assessment
Accountability

34. Alignment for Improving Instruction
Courses
and
Programs
Standards
Instructional
Resources
Assessment
Teacher
Materials
Content
Accountability
State
Requirements

35. Rigor and Relevance
Explaining
What’s Important

36. “How will I ever use what I’m learning today?”
Ask Me.....
“How will I ever use what I’m learning today?”

37. In schools the status quo persists!

38. That is what is on THE test?
Rigor and Relevance
That is what is on THE test?

39. New SAT - 2005 More Application New Writing Section
Expand Critical Reading for Information
More Achievement
Base on three years of Math
Higher Level Math Skills
Less Aptitude
Eliminate analogies
Eliminate simple math reasoning

41. NYS Math A Question
June 2003

42. Rigor and Relevance
Increase
Student Motivation

44. Why Rigor and Relevance?
Changing Nature of Work
Focus of Learning Community
Reduce Overcrowded Curriculum
Way to Focus on Student Learning
Tool for School Alignment
Explain What is Important
It is what is on THE test
Increase Student Motivation

45. Rigor
Relevance
All students

46. Rigor/Relevance Framework

47. Rigor/Relevance Framework
Knowledge 1 2 3 4 5 6
Application 1 2 3 4 5

48. Rigor/Relevance Framework
KNOWLEDGE
Assimilation
Adaptation D C
Acquisition
Application A B
A P P L I C A T I O N

49. Rigorous and Relevant Assessment

50. Rigorous and Relevant Instructional Strategies

51. Your Goals ?

52. Rigor/Relevance Framework
Understand and apply R/R Framework
Analyze the level the are teaching and reflect on student expectations
Seek consistency between curriculum, instruction and assessment
Seek Quadrant D on essential learning

53. International Center for Leadership in Education, Inc.

54. Further Information Or

55. Never doubt that a small group of citizens can change the world
Never doubt that a small group of citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead

56. Model of Standards Driven Improvement of Instruction
International Center for Leadership in Education, Inc.
Model of Standards Driven Improvement of Instruction

57. Developing an Understanding of Standards
Aligning Standards, Assessments and Essential Skills to Improve Instruction
Analyzing Community Needs
Analyzing State Tests
Developing Local Standards
Curriculum Mapping
Connecting Academic and Career and Technical Education
District/School Improvement Planning
Instructional Planning
Selecting/Developing Local Assessments
Analyzing Student Achievement
Instructional Improvement

58. Developing an Understanding of Standards
Aligning Standards, Assessments and Essential Skills to Improve Instruction
Analyzing Community Needs
Analyzing State Tests
Developing Local Standards
Curriculum Mapping
Connecting Academic and Career and Technical Education
District/School Improvement Planning
Developing an Understanding of
Standards
Instructional Planning
Selecting/Developing Local Assessments
Analyzing Student Achievement
Instructional Improvement

59. Analyzing Community Needs
Developing an Understanding of Standards
Aligning Standards, Assessments and Essential Skills to Improve Instruction
Analyzing Community Needs
Analyzing State Tests
Developing Local Standards
Curriculum Mapping
Connecting Academic and Career and Technical Education
District/School Improvement Planning
Analyzing Community Needs
Instructional Planning
Selecting/Developing Local Assessments
Analyzing Student Achievement
Instructional Improvement

60. Developing an Understanding of Standards
Aligning Standards, Assessments and Essential Skills to Improve Instruction
Analyzing Community Needs
Analyzing State Tests
Developing Local Standards
Curriculum Mapping
Connecting Academic and Career and Technical Education
District/School Improvement Planning
Analyzing State Tests
Instructional Planning
Selecting/Developing Local Assessments
Analyzing Student Achievement
Instructional Improvement

61. Developing Local Standards
Developing an Understanding of Standards
Aligning Standards, Assessments and Essential Skills to Improve Instruction
Analyzing Community Needs
Analyzing State Tests
Developing Local Standards
Curriculum Mapping
Connecting Academic and Career and Technical Education
District/School Improvement Planning
Developing Local Standards
Instructional Planning
Selecting/Developing Local Assessments
Analyzing Student Achievement
Instructional Improvement

62. Developing an Understanding of Standards
Aligning Standards, Assessments and Essential Skills to Improve Instruction
Analyzing Community Needs
Analyzing State Tests
Developing Local Standards
Curriculum Mapping
Connecting Academic and Career and Technical Education
District/School Improvement Planning
Curriculum Mapping
Instructional Planning
Selecting/Developing Local Assessments
Analyzing Student Achievement
Instructional Improvement

63. Connecting Academic and Career and Technical Education
Developing an Understanding of Standards
Aligning Standards, Assessments and Essential Skills to Improve Instruction
Analyzing Community Needs
Analyzing State Tests
Developing Local Standards
Curriculum Mapping
Connecting Academic and Career and Technical Education
District/School Improvement Planning
Connecting Academic and Career
and Technical Education
Instructional Planning
Selecting/Developing Local Assessments
Analyzing Student Achievement
Instructional Improvement

64. District/School Improvement Planning
Developing an Understanding of Standards
Aligning Standards, Assessments and Essential Skills to Improve Instruction
Analyzing Community Needs
Analyzing State Tests
Developing Local Standards
Curriculum Mapping
Connecting Academic and Career and Technical Education
District/School Improvement Planning
District/School Improvement
Planning
Instructional Planning
Selecting/Developing Local Assessments
Analyzing Student Achievement
Instructional Improvement

65. Instructional Planning
Developing an Understanding of Standards
Aligning Standards, Assessments and Essential Skills to Improve Instruction
Analyzing Community Needs
Analyzing State Tests
Developing Local Standards
Curriculum Mapping
Connecting Academic and Career and Technical Education
District/School Improvement Planning
Instructional Planning
Instructional Planning
Selecting/Developing Local Assessments
Analyzing Student Achievement
Instructional Improvement

66. Selecting/Developing Local Assessments
Developing an Understanding of Standards
Aligning Standards, Assessments and Essential Skills to Improve Instruction
Analyzing Community Needs
Analyzing State Tests
Developing Local Standards
Curriculum Mapping
Connecting Academic and Career and Technical Education
District/School Improvement Planning
Selecting/Developing Local
Assessments
Instructional Planning
Selecting/Developing Local Assessments
Analyzing Student Achievement
Instructional Improvement

67. Analyzing Student Achievement
Developing an Understanding of Standards
Aligning Standards, Assessments and Essential Skills to Improve Instruction
Analyzing Community Needs
Analyzing State Tests
Developing Local Standards
Curriculum Mapping
Connecting Academic and Career and Technical Education
District/School Improvement Planning
Analyzing Student Achievement
Instructional Planning
Selecting/Developing Local Assessments
Analyzing Student Achievement
Instructional Improvement

68. Instructional Improvement
Developing an Understanding of Standards
Aligning Standards, Assessments and Essential Skills to Improve Instruction
Analyzing Community Needs
Analyzing State Tests
Developing Local Standards
Curriculum Mapping
Connecting Academic and Career and Technical Education
District/School Improvement Planning
Instructional Improvement
Instructional Planning
Selecting/Developing Local Assessments
Analyzing Student Achievement
Instructional Improvement

69. Evidence of Standards Alignment
School culture that emphasizes standards
Local priority skills and knowledge
Local curriculum frameworks
Curriculum Maps
Crosswalk between CTE and Academics

70. Evidence of Standards Alignment
District/School Improvement Plans
Teacher Instructional Plans
Local assessments
Instructional Improvement Priorities
Academic Intervention Services
Revised Instruction

71. Activity
Self Assessment

72. Developing an Understanding of Standards
Aligning Standards, Assessments and Essential Skills to Improve Instruction
Analyzing Community Needs
Analyzing State Tests
Developing Local Standards
Curriculum Mapping
Connecting Academic and Career and Technical Education
District/School Improvement Planning
Instructional Planning
Selecting/Developing Local Assessments
Analyzing Student Achievement
Instructional Improvement

73. Successful School Response

74. Components of Successful School Reform
1. Create a culture that embraces a rigorous and relevant curriculum
2. Use data to provide clear unwavering focus
3. Provide students real-world applications
4. Create a framework to organize curriculum that drives instruction
5.Create multiple pathways to rigor and relevance

75. Components of Successful School Reform
6.Set high expectations that are monitored for student’s continuous improvement
7.Sustained professional development that is focused
8.Obtain and leverage parent and community involvement
9.Maintain safe and orderly schools.
10.Offer effective leadership development.

76. Differentiating Standards
Destination and Route vs. Vehicle

77. Differentiating Standards
Activity
Differentiating Standards

78. International Center for Leadership in Education, Inc.

79. Further Information Or