1. Common Core State Standards/Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium

2.  Familiarize parents with Common Core State Standards and Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium field assessment  Overview of the L.A./Literacy CCSS and classroom impact  Practice the Mathematics SBAC field assessment  Questions and answers

3.  5:30 pm Welcome and overview in media center  5:45pm one group to L.A./Literacy Presentation (room) other group to take practice SBAC math field assessment (room 12)  6:35 pm Groups switch locations

4.  How the Common Core State Standards will help students achieve at high levels and help them learn what they need to know to get to graduation and beyond.  http://vimeo.com/51933492 http://vimeo.com/51933492

5.  Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction  Reading, writing and speaking grounded in evidence from text, both literary and informational  Regular practice with complex text and its academic language

6.  Focus strongly on the topics emphasized in the standards  Coherence: Think across grade, and link topics* within grades  Rigor: In major topics* pursue: ◦ Conceptual understanding; ◦ Procedural skill and fluency; and ◦ Application with equal intensity

7.  Grade 6 – Ratios and proportional reasoning, early expressions and equations  Grade 7 – Ratios and proportional reasoning, arithmetic of rational numbers  Grade 8 – Linear algebra, linear functions

8.  Computer Adaptive Testing  Performance Assessment  In-Class Activity

9.  Selected-response items  Technology-enhanced items  Constructed-response items  Performance tasks (with in class activity)

10. TEST TYPECATPerf. Task Only TotalIn-Class Activity Total ELA/Literacy1:302:003:30:304:00 Mathematics2:001:003:00:303:30 Total3:303:006:301:007:30

11.  Times are estimates of test length for most students. Smarter Balanced assessments are designed as untimed tests; some students may need and should be afforded more time than shown in this table.

12.  Additional information and the powerpoints used this evening can be found by going to the CMS website – Shortcuts – CCSS/SBAC for Parents.  http://www.groton.k12.ct.us/Domain/345 http://www.groton.k12.ct.us/Domain/345