1. California Common Core Standards (CCCS)
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2. California Common Core Standards
Two New Acronyms
CCCS/CCSS
California Common Core Standards
These are now our “official” standards
But we have 3 or 4 years for transition
Also known as CCSS (Common Core State Standards)

3. 46 States + DC Have Adopted the Common Core State Standards

4. What are the benefits of the CCSS?
Internationally benchmarked
Student expectations are clear to parents, teachers, and the general public
Allows for collaboration with other states on best practices, instructional materials, and professional development
Reduces costs to the state

5. The Common Core State Standards
To date, forty-six states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), a consistent set of English language arts (ELA) and mathematics expectations that students need to meet to succeed in college and careers
States have committed to implement the new standards by the school year
This is an aggressive timeline that will require a strategy that draws on state policymakers, district and school officials, and classroom teachers to ensure a successful and efficient implementation and transition

6. Grounding: 1997

7. Schools are Improving
Changing World
School Improvement

8. Goal for School Improvement
Changing World
School Improvement

9. Overarching Goals for K-12 CCSS
Ensure that our students are:
Meeting college and work expectations
Prepared to succeed in our global economy and society
Provided with rigorous content and applications of higher knowledge through higher order thinking skills.

10. The CCSS Build Upon the Strengths and Lessons of Current State Standards

11. California’s Additional 15%
Based on the following criteria:
Substantively enhance
Address a perceived gap
Be defensible to classroom practitioners
Keep the original standard intact
Ensure the rigor of California’s existing standards is maintained

12. Why did we make this change?
To ensure that our students are
Meeting college and work expectations
Prepared to succeed in a global economy and society
Provided with rigorous content and application of higher knowledge thinking through higher order thinking skills

13. The Common Core Paradigm Shift
Emphasis is on the answer
Emphasis is on the learning process

14. Gradual Release of Responsibility
Teacher Responsibility
Collaborative Learning
Independent Tasks
Focused Lesson Guided Instruction
I do it
We do it
You do it together
You do it alone
Student Responsibility

15. Answers are Part of the Process, They are Not the Product
The product is the student’s knowledge and know-how.
The ‘correctness’ of answers is also part of the process.
Yes, an important part.

16. Wrong answers are part of the process, too
What was the student thinking?
Was it an error of haste or a stubborn misconception

17. Student Thinking Matters!!
CCCS
Student Thinking Matters!!

18. College, Career Readiness and Citizenship Survival Skills
Critical thinking and problem solving
Collaboration
Agility and adaptability
Initiative and entrepreneurism
Effective oral and written communication
Accessing and analyzing information
Curiosity and imagination
From The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best
Schools Don’t Teach the New Survival Skills our Children
Need – And What We Can Do About it by Tony Wagner
(Basic Books, 2008)

20. + 6.5% ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS The Common Core and California’s 6.5%
Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science and Technical Subjects
+ 6.5%
The Common Core and California’s 6.5%

21. Design and Organization
Sections include:
English Language Arts K-5
English Language Arts 6-12
Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects

22. Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
College and Career Readiness (CCR) anchor standards
Reading 10 Standards
Reading Foundational Skills 4 Standards (Grades K-5 only)
Writing 10 Standards
Speaking and Listening 6 Standards
Language Standards 6 Standards
Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects (Grades 6–12 only)

23. What’s Different in ELA?
Current ELA domains: reading, writing, listening and speaking, and written and oral language conventions.
CCCS strands: reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language

24. What did CA add to ELA CCSS?
Formal presentations, Grades 1-12
Penmanship, Grades 2-4
Career and consumer documents for writing in Grade 8
Analysis of text features in informational text, Grades 6-12

25. CCCS Advances for ELA Balance of literature and information text
Text complexity
Emphasis on argument and explanatory writing
Writing about sources
Inclusion of formal and informal talk
Stress on vocabulary—general academic and subject specific

26. What did CCSS add to CA ELA?
Vocabulary standards
Standards for “collaborative discussions”
Literacy standards for history/social studies, science, and technical subjects
Embedded in K-5
In Grades 6-12 these are a separate set--expectation is these will be shared between ELA teachers and teachers in history/social studies and science

27. Emphasis on Informational Text
Distribution of Literary and Informational Passages by Grade in the 2009 NAEP Reading Framework
Grade
Literary
Information 4 50 8 45 55 12 30 70

28. Mathematics
+ 15%
Common Core and California’s 15%

29. The Standards for Mathematical Practices
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

30. CCSS for Mathematics Standards for Mathematical Practice
Carry across all grade levels.
Describe habits of mind of a mathematically expert student.
Standards for Mathematical Content
K-8 standards are presented by grade level
High school standards are organized by conceptual themes:
Number and Quantity
Algebra
Functions
Modeling
Geometry
Statistics and Probability

31. K-5 Domains Counting and Cardinality K Only
Grade Level
Counting and Cardinality
K Only
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
1-5
Numbers and Operations in Base 10
Numbers and Operations – Fractions
3-5
Measurement and Data
Geometry

32. Middle Grades Domains Grade Level Ratio and Proportional Relationships
6-7
The Number System
6-8
Expressions and Equations
Functions 8
Geometry
Statistics and Probability

33. Arranged by cluster (not course) Number and quantity Algebra Functions
High School
Arranged by cluster (not course)
Number and quantity
Algebra
Functions
Modeling
Geometry
Probability and Statistics

34. What’s different in math?
More similarities than differences
Some shifts in grade level for some skills
Organization of the standards
By grade level through Grade 8
Algebra 1
Clusters of standards for 9-12
Two options for eighth graders
8th grade math
Algebra I

35. What did CA add to Math CCSS?
Calculus and AP Probability and Statistics
Operations and Algebraic Thinking additions in Grades 2 and 5
Measurement and data additions in Grades 2
Grade 6--the Number System

36. What did CCSS add to CA Math?
2 Options for Eighth Graders
Algebra 1
Eighth Grade CC Math Standards
K-7 standards augmented to prepare for either option
Clearer grade-to-grade organization

37. Assessment Timeline Two assessments are being developed
Current STAR was scheduled to sunset in
Budget constraints pushed STAR extension to
New assessment could be administered in and piloted the year before
California is now part of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium -- SBAC

38. English Language Arts and Mathematics, Grades 3 – 8 and High School
The SBAC System
English Language Arts and Mathematics, Grades 3 – 8 and High School
Last 12 weeks of year*
DIGITAL CLEARINGHOUSE of formative tools, processes and exemplars; released items and tasks; model curriculum units; educator training; professional development tools and resources; scorer training modules; and teacher collaboration tools.
Computer Adaptive Assessment and Performance Tasks
INTERIM ASSESSMENT
Computer Adaptive Assessment and Performance Tasks
INTERIM ASSESSMENT
PERFORMANCE
TASKS
Reading
Writing
Math
END OF YEAR
ADAPTIVE ASSESSMENT
Scope, sequence, number, and timing of interim assessments locally determined
Optional Interim assessment system —
no stakes
Summative assessment for accountability

39. Testing Item Types Constructed-response
Selected response (End- of-year)
Performance tasks
Computer-enhanced
Video, multimedia, interactive text

40. Download them at How can I get the CCCS?

41. Timelines Timeline 1 Frameworks: May 2013
Instructional Materials: November 2014
Timeline 2
Frameworks: May 2015
Instructional Materials: November 2017

42. Next Steps for Implementation
Standards Messaging and Awareness – Build understanding
Impacting the Teaching and Learning Cycle
Teachers need time and space to work collaboratively across grade levels and curricular areas to make meaning of the new standards-based learning expectations
Standards-Based Reporting
Align systems for staff evaluation and support

43. Resources
Full text of the Common Core California Standards: (Outside Source)
Information about the common core: (Outside Source)
Information about the common core including implementation timelines:
SBAC information: (Outside Source)
Center for K-12 and Performance Management at ETS: (Outside Source)
Orange County Department of Education: