Common Core State Standards: An Overview

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Common Core State StandardsAn Overview

• Quincy Public Schools
• Planning and Implementation
• February 13, 2012
• Presenter
• Colleen Roberts, Assistant Superintendent

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Table of Contents

• Purpose of Standards pg. 3
• Overview
• Timeline pgs. 4-9
• What are the Standards? pgs. 10-13
• ELA Highlights pgs. 14-21
• Math Highlights pgs. 22-30
• QPS Planning for Implementation
• Curriculum Alignment and Mapping pg. 32
• Curriculum Needs Assessment pg. 32
• Professional Development pg. 33
• Implementation Timeline - DESE pg. 34
• For More Information pg. 35

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Purpose of the Standards

• These Standards are not intended to be new names
  for old ways of doing business. They are a call
  to take the next step. It is time for states to
  work together to build on lessons learned from
  two decades of standards based reforms.
• Common Core State Standards for
  Mathematics (page 5)

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Common Core Implementation DESE Timeline

• Spring 2009 National Governors Association and
  the council of Chief State School Officers
  propose development of a common core of K-12
  state standards in English Language Arts and
  Mathematics
• July 2010 Common Core state standards adopted
  in Massachusetts to replace the current
  Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks in ELA and
  Math contingent upon augmenting and customizing
  the Common Core
• 43 States and the District of Columbia have
• adopted these standards

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Common Core Implementation Timeline - Continued

• December 2010 DESE board votes on adopting
  additional standards to the Common Core State
  Standards
• Up to an additional 15 of standards may be added
  from the state to enhance Common Core
• Math - DESE recommendation 4 additional
  standards including 10 standards for K-8
  additions and 9 standards for high school
  additions
• ELA DESE recommendation 2.5 or 27 additional
  standards including Pre-K standards

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Common Core Implementation Timeline 2010-2011

• Spring 2011
• New Massachusetts State Curriculum Frameworks
  released.
• MCAS Assessment for 2011 - based solely on the
  current ELA and Mathematics Frameworks

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Common Core Implementation Timeline 2011-2012

• Fall 2011 Spring 2012
• New Massachusetts Frameworks based on the Common
  Core distributed to all staff
• Professional Development occurs throughout the
  school year for all staff regarding unwrapping
  the standards for ELA/Literacy (including Science
  and Social Studies) and Math
• Spring 2012
• MCAS for Spring 2012 will be based on standards
  common between current and new frameworks
• Some test items will be based on the new
  frameworks but may not be included in scoring
  (pilot items)
• Science will remain the same

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Common Core Implementation Timeline 2012-2014

• School Year 2012-2013
• MCAS for Spring 2013 will be based on standards
  common between current and new frameworks
• Some test items will be based on the new
  frameworks
• School Year 2013-2014
• MCAS based fully on the New Massachusetts
  Frameworks based on the Common Core

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Common Core Implementation Timeline 2014-2015

• School year 2014-2015
• The national test Next Generation Assessment
  (NGA) - will be given to all students
• Assessments will be for students in grades 3-11
• Tests are expected be given online

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The Common Core Standardsand theNew
Massachusetts State Frameworks
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2011 Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks
forELA/Literacy and Math
The New ELA/Literacy and Math Curriculum
Frameworks, comprised primarily of the Common
Core State Standards, were written explicitly to
define the knowledge and skills that students
must master to be college and career ready by the
end of high school.
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What are the Standards?

• The Standards
• Are aligned with College and Career readiness
• Are clear, understandable and consistent
• Include rigorous content and application of
  knowledge through higher-order thinking skills
• Build upon strengths and lessons of current state
  standards
• Are informed by other top performing countries,
  so that all students are prepared to succeed in
  our global economy and society
• Are evidence based

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The Standards Include

• College and Career Readiness Anchor standards
• These standards demonstrate broad expectations
  for all students to be prepared for life after
  high school
• K-12 Grade Specific end-of-the-year expectations
• These standards are more specific, and state what
  students need to be able to do and understand at
  the end of each grade level

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Massachusetts Curriculum FrameworksforEnglish
Language Arts and LiteracyGrades
Pre-Kindergarten to 12Incorporating the Common
Core State Standards for English Language Arts
and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science
and Technical Subjects
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• Whats Different about the ELA Common Core?
• The emphasis on college and career readiness
• Intentional coherence between the standards for
  reading literature and informational text
• The emphasis on finding good evidence and using
  it precisely
• Read like a detective,
• Write like a reporter
• Detailed standards on writing arguments,
  explanations and narratives
• Standards for literacy in history/social studies,
  science, and technical subjects

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Common Core State Standards have an Integrated
Model of Literacy

• Four Strands are included
• Reading
• Writing
• Speaking and Listening
• Language

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Important Improvements for ELA

• Reading
• Balance of literacy and Informational texts
• Inclusion of text complexity
• Writing
• Emphasis on argument and informative/explanatory
  writing
• Writing about sources
• Speaking and Listening
• Inclusion of formal and Informal talk
• Language
• Stress general academic vocabulary (Tier 2 words)
• Stress domain-specific vocabulary (Tier 3 words)

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Range of Writing starts in Grade 3 Based on
the College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards
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Speaking And Listening
Comprehension And Collaboration
Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Based on the College and Career Readiness
Anchor Standards
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• Vocabulary
• General academic words and phrases (Tier 2 words)
• Domain-Specific words and phrases (Tier 3 words)
• Based on the College and Career Readiness
  Anchor Standards

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Massachusetts Curriculum FrameworksforMathematic
sGrades Pre-Kindergarten to 12Incorporating
the Common Core State Standards
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Key FeaturesNew Mathematics Framework

• The new standards support improved curriculum and
  instruction due to increased
• FOCUS, via critical areas at each grade level
• COHERENCE, through carefully developed
  connections within and across grades
• CLARITY, with precisely worded standards that
  cannot be treated as a checklist
• RIGOR, including a focus on College and Career
  Readiness and Standards for Mathematical Practice
  throughout Pre-K-12

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Important Improvements for Mathematics

• Focus and Coherence
• Balance of Concepts and Skills
• Mathematical Practices
• College and Career Readiness

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Mathematics
Math Practice
Math Content
K-8 Grade Level Progress Focal Points
High School Conceptual Categories
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K-12 Standards for Mathematical Practice

• Expertise for students at all grades
• 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

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Grades K-8 Mathematics Content

• Each Grade level includes
• Introduction
• Counting and Cardinality (Kindergarten)
• Operations and Algebraic Thinking
• Number and Operations (Fractions starting in
  Grade 3)
• Measurement and Data
• Geometry
• Grades 6-8 Statistics and Probability

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High School Mathematics

• Conceptual Categories
• Number and Quantity
• Algebra
• Functions
• Geometry
• Modeling
• Statistics and Probability

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High School Pathways

• Two model course pathways
• Traditional
• Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II
• Integrated
• Mathematics I, Mathematics II, Mathematics III
• Additional Courses
• Precalculus, Advanced Quantitative Reasoning

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High School Course Highlights

• At the end of either pathway, students
• Will have studied the same standards
• Are prepared for additional courses such as
  Precalculus or Advanced Quantitative Reasoning
• Are College and Career Ready
• College Ready for entry level credit bearing
  course

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What is Quincy Public Schools doing in
Preparation for the New Massachusetts State
Frameworks?
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Planning for Implementation

• Curriculum Alignment -2011-2012
• Crosswalk Documents from DESE
• Curriculum Mapping
• Curriculum Guides/Pacing
• Curriculum Needs Assessment-2012-2013
• Filling in the Gaps with current Curriculum
• Purchase of Supplementary materials
• Timeline for piloting newer materials from
  publishers

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Professional Development

• Professional development workshops and courses
  beginning in Spring 2011
• Including teachers and principals in all aspects
  of this change-over to the new Massachusetts
  Curriculum Frameworks
• Work with Curriculum and Professional Development
  Teams
• Vertical Teams- Site based and District Teams
• Release Time
• Contractual Time

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Implementation Timeline

• DESE
• Summer 2011 to SY 2014
• Model curriculum units and performance tasks are
  being developed and piloted curriculum units
  will be refined and shared on ESE website by the
  Spring of 2012
• Districts
• 2011-2012
• Quincy and other districts will continue making
  transition to the new MA Curriculum Frameworks
• 2012-2013
• Transition to new MA State Curriculum Frameworks
  to be complete
• All teachers will use these new Frameworks in
  their
• standards-based classrooms

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Information about the Common Core State
Standards

• http//www.doe.mass.edu/candi/commoncore
• News about Massachusetts additions, professional
  development and resources for alignment
• As you review this information and find that you
  have questions, please feel free to contact
• Colleen Roberts, Assistant Superintendent
• Email croberts_at_quincy.k12.ma.us
• Phone [phone]