Librarians

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Librarians Common Core Implementation

• Shirley Fetherolf
• Program Advisor
• Library Media Services
• 4-22-12

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• Reading is at the core of everything in the
  Common Core Standards

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• Problem
• Many of us have
• weeded out our high
• Lexile books

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Problem

• Librarians say that
• its fun to read

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CCSS Reading Not always fun

• Vehicle for deeper learning
• Challenging and intellectually edifying activity
• Deserving of students time, effort, and
  persistence
• Carol Jago

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• In order to reach appropriate levels of rigor,
  students must grapple with complex texts
• Challenging texts that may frustrate or confuse
  students can be extremely effective and important
  instructional tools

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• If students have not developed the skill,
  concentration and stamina to read complex
  textsthey will read less in general
• CSS ELA Appendix A, p. 4

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Problem Growing Imbalance

• Champions at information gathering
• Web surfing, social media, email and texting
• Not good at processing information
• Constructing meaning
• Deeper thinking/synthesis
• Learning to process information

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What research has discovered about reading
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• 5 of children learn to read effortlessly
• 20-30 learn relatively easily once exposed to
  reading instruction
• Harris, Chris. RTI The Library Role.
  Infomancy. 15 Mar. 2006. Web. 15 Apr. 2011.
  lthttp//schoolof.info/infomancy/?p173

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• For 60 of children, learning to read is a much
  more formidable task
• 20-30 of children reading is one of the most
  difficult tasks ever
• 5 of students even with explicit and systematic
  instruction, reading will continue to be a
  challenge
• Harris, Chris. RTI The Library Role.
  Infomancy. 15 Mar. 2006. Web. 15 Apr. 2011.
  lthttp//schoolof.info/infomancy/?p173

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• The reading level of documents, technical
  manuals, and other materials required by entry
  level positions in most fields far exceeds the
  reading level of many students.
• Meeting the Challenge of Adolescent Literacy,
  Judith Irvin, et al

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• Free voluntary reading is one of the most
  powerful tools we have in language instruction
• More reading results in better reading
  comprehension, writing style, vocabulary,
  spelling and grammatical development
• The Power of Reading Insights from the Research,
  Stephan Krashen

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• Subject-area teachers should not be expected to
  teach basic reading skills, but they can help
  students develop critical strategies and skills
  for reading texts in each subject.
• --Includes Librarians
• Southern Regional Education Board,
  2009 Policy Statement, page 5

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The Common Core Conversation

• Are you involved?
• How do you support student learning?
• How do you support teachers?
• Where can you learn more about how to implement
  Common Core?

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• What to do?
• What to buy?
• What curriculum?
• What will students do?
• Help!

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New ADE Wiki on CCSShttp//ccssarkansas.pbworks
.com

• AETN Videos
• http//ideas.aetn.org/commoncore/

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CCSS Implementation Timetable
K-2 2011-2012
Grades 3-8 2012-2013
Grades 9-12 2013-2014
Online Common Assessments 2014-2015
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• Students will still be tested over Arkansas
  frameworks until 2014-15 for math and ELA!

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CCSS Changes

• More nonfiction
• Higher Lexiles
• More research
• More collaboration

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New Challenges for Librarians

• STEM
• LMS Evaluation
• Waivers
• Complex Text
• Technology
• New PD Rules

Lexiles eBooks ELLs Collaboration 11 computers
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• Dont let the
• new evaluation
• system catch
• you by surprise!

2014
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New Teacher Evaluation System for Arkansas
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What are the Curriculum Maps?

• Vendor productwas free in past
• Developed by Bill Gates Foundation
• Used by many Arkansas schools
• Not affiliated with CCSScorestandards.org, even
  though their Website is commoncore.org

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Common Core Curriculum Maps

• Available online, also in book form
• Teacher comment Implementation using these maps
  has been much easier, since we have some
  suggested texts, activities, and assessments to
  help us in teaching the new standards.

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Common Core Curriculum Maps

• Issues
• Catcher in the Rye in 8th grade unit
• House of Spirits in 10th grade unit
• Cost 19,500 for K-12 single title set
• On average, all books within each unit, after set
  discount, cost around 250.00 
• Each grade has six units

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Pair and Share

• Bill Gates Curriculum Maps
• Advantages
• Disadvantages

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Technology Integration Example

• 8th grade ELA teacher creating podcasts of
  student poems
• Typed poems on PPT slides, with credits and
  animation.
• Recorded Audacity sound clip and attached to
  slide
• Final product students reading the words of
  their poems as slides scrolled through

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Navigating the Big Shifts

• Appropriate Text Complexity
• Increased Reading of Informational Texts
• Disciplinary Literacy
• Close Reading
• Text-dependent Questions
• Academic Vocabulary--Tier 2 3
• Argumentative Writing
• Short and Sustained Research Projects

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Common Core Research Skills

• Our LMS framework is still important!
• Research projects in CCSS start in kindergarten
• Collaboration needed with teachers to develop
  activities which teach our frameworks and Common
  Core research skills
• See my wiki page for ideas

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Less Emphasis on Fiction
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English Language Learners

• Most ELLs were born in USA
• 43 of students in Springdale are ELLs
• Over 90 ELLs in some classes in DeQueen

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Connecting with Non-Readers

• Big Challenge

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Our Goal A Word-Rich Environment

• Lots of books and other reading material,
  invitingly displayed, on various topics, at
  various reading levels
• Words on a word wall, etc.

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Summer Reading

• Progress in
  International Reading Literacy Study

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Pair and Share

• Google search results not usually created
  specifically for children
• How do you get teachers and students beyond
  Google?

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Questions
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Shirley Fetherolf
501-682-6576
shirley.fetherolf_at_arkansas.gov