This is a summary of a PowerPoint being delivered at network meetings to all principals about preparing for the common core. This comes from the Chancellor's office.
Today's students live and will work in a different world
Students need to know how to think critically and apply their knowledge to solve non-routine problems
The Common Core standards outline a new definition and trajectory of college and career readiness that reflect the demands of the 21st century
The Common Core standards provide an opportunity to raise the bar and help us prepare our students to be more globally competitive
Students need to engage in rigorous work aligned with new standards
Teachers need to work in teams to review student work and align curriculum and teacher practice with the Common Core
Create entry points into the curriculum for all students
School leaders need to provide teachers with meaningful feedback tied to a clear standard of excellence
Fall Expectations:
Schools analyze student work samples in relation to Common Core standards through existing teacher teams engaged in collaborative inquiry
As a result, schools understand the current state of teacher and student work and determine how to strengthen
Winter/Spring Expectations:
Schools engage all students in working toward CCSS by trying at least one literacy culminating task and one math culminating task
Tasks need to be embedded in curricula
Curricula are made accessible through use of Universal Design for Learning
The Standards to be leveraged:
Read and analyze informational texts and write opinions and arguments in response to those texts
Use modeling (math practice #4) to solve a cognitively demanding math task in a given domain of focus at each grade level
Teacher expectations:
Will be measured against a rubric of practice (Danielson)
Engage in short, frequent cycles of classroom observations and collaborative examination of student work followed by timely specific, evidence based feedback that teachers can act on
Teacher evaluation system will be 60% teacher competencies (professional skills and behavior, observations, maybe student feedback), 20% local measures of student learning, and 20% state measures of student learning.
Time as a Resource
Schools will need to create innovative school schedules to allow for teacher teams to meet
Structure Circular 6 activities to provide teacher teams with additional time
Use SBO process to allow for longer extended time sessions and for collaborative meetings
Hello everyone,
This is a summary of a PowerPoint being delivered at network meetings to all principals about preparing for the common core. This comes from the Chancellor's office.
Fall Expectations:
Winter/Spring Expectations:
The Standards to be leveraged:
Teacher expectations:
Teacher evaluation system will be 60% teacher competencies (professional skills and behavior, observations, maybe student feedback), 20% local measures of student learning, and 20% state measures of student learning.
Time as a Resource