1.  Common Core State Standards Or College and Career State Standards CCSS

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3.   developed by the Council of Chief State School Officers and  the National Governors Association  state-based initiative focusing on curricula in English Language Arts and Mathematics A Little History… (this is NOT a Federal Government Thing!)

4.   45 states have adopted CCSS  Each participating state is now responsible for designing and implementing specific curriculum around CCSS. A Bit More…

5.  Thinking about the Curriculum... 5 Common Core State Standards

6.  Thinking about the Curriculum... 6 Knowledge Course Common Core State Standards

7.  7 Knowledge/ CCSS Course Unit

8. 8 ALL MOST SOME Generalization & Problem Solving Content Manipulation Content: Facts, Concepts, Definitions, Propositions

9.  Common Core Shifts for English Language Arts/Literacy 1.Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction 2. Reading, writing and speaking grounded in evidence from text, both literary and informational 3. Regular practice with complex text and its academic language

10.  Common Core Shifts for Mathematics 1.Focus strongly where the Standards focus 2. Coherence: think across grades, and link to major topics* within grades 3. Rigor: in major topics* pursue: − conceptual understanding, − procedural skill and fluency, and − application with equal intensity * Focus Areas in Support of Rich Instruction and Expectations of Fluency and Conceptual Understanding K–2 Addition and subtraction—concepts, skills, and problem solving, and place value 3–5 Multiplication and division of whole numbers and fractions – concepts, skills and problem solving 6 Ratios and proportional reasoning; early expressions and equations 7 Ratios and proportional reasoning; arithmetic of rational numbers 8 Linear algebra and linear functions

11.  Links to SC CCSS http://ed.sc.gov/agency/programs-services/190/ http://ed.sc.gov/agency/programs-services/190/ccss- support/index.cfm

12.  A Good Resource… http://www.aspendrl.org/port al/browse/DocumentDetail?do cumentId=1882&download