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Notes from Digging Deeper into the Common Core - The Leadership and Learning Center

Presenters: Larry Ainsworth, Lori Cook, Jan Christinson and Angela Peery


 * Common Core authors wrote the standards for all students
 * Fewer, clearer, higher
 * Very rigorous compared to most state standards
 * Authors insist that the common core ELA standards are for all teachers and are a shared responsibility in all classrooms
 * CC Goals
 * to ensure that all students receive a world-class education and preparation necessary to succeed in 21st century global market place
 * to prepare students for college and careers
 * Start small and build slowly
 * Two consortia of states developing national assessments aligned to CC
 * Smarter Balanced
 * PARCC
 * First formal year of implementation of assessment 2014-15
 * Language Arts ordered by strands and are intentionally spiraled
 * 10 Anchor standards for reading (apply to literary and informational texts)
 * 10 Anchor standards for writing
 * Need to prioritize standards
 * Priority standards provide curricular focus in which teachers need to dig deeper & assure student competency
 * Supporting standards are curricular standards which connect to and support priority standards
 * Prioritization not elimination
 * When considering whether to select one standards over another, determine which one is the more comprehensive or rigorous
 * Push for writing across the curriculum & literacy in social studies & science
 * Adopting states can also add up to 15% of their existing state standars to the CC
 * // Rigorous Curriculum Design // by Larry Ainsworth - pp. 47-53 CC are presented in the context of priority standards
 * Building the Foundation
 * Prioritize the standards
 * Name units of study
 * assign the standards
 * prepare a pacing guide
 * construct unit planning organizer
 * Redesign curriculum to common core
 * Crosswalks from state standards to CC are not working
 * Retrofitting isn't working to reflect the rigor of standards
 * The CC for ELA demand that every educator plays a critical role in creating highly literate students
 * Read complex informational texts should begin at the very earliest elementary grades
 * CC calls for wide and deep reading of literature including literary and nonfiction
 * Grade 4 50% literature 50% informational
 * Grade 8 45% literature 55% informational
 * Grade 12 30%literature 70% informational
 * Emphasized Text Complexity - Appendix A
 * Reader-task considerations
 * Quantitative factors
 * Qualitative factors
 * Students' ability to answer questions associated with complex tests