Finding Common Ground with Common Core

1. Finding Common Ground with Common Core • Janice D. Mertes • Department of Public Instruction • Common Core State Standard Team • Digital Learning Specialist • janice.mertes@dpi.wi.gov • @WisDPITech @WisDPICCSS • Nancy Anderson • Department of Public Instruction • Library Consultant • nancy.anderson@dpi.wi.gov • April 8, 2013

2. Today’s Meet Backchannel http://todaysmeet.com/ccss Share your thoughts with our group:1) How are implementation strategies in your district integrating technology into common core state standards?2) What materials or resources are you using?3) What materials or resources do you need from DPI to help in this exciting time of instructional transformation?-How are implementation strategies in your district integrating technology into common core state standard teacher training?-What technology tools/software areas are you using to meet the common core expectations for specific grades/content areas?-What materials or resources does your district need?

3. Understand how CCSS are transforming classrooms in the digital age and statewide initiatives Understand how librarians, classroom teachers and technology integrators fit in this transformation Today’s Agenda

4. Wisconsin State Superintendent Tony Evers: Agenda 2017 • Standards & Instruction • What and how should kids learn? • Innovation Learning • How are digital technologies integrated into learning? • Assessments and Data Systems • How do we know if they learned it? • School and Educator Effectiveness • How do we ensure that students have highly effective teachers and schools? • School Finance Reform • How should we pay for schools?

5. Wisconsin State Superintendent Tony Evers: Agenda 2017 By 2017, we need to reach target goals thatprepare our students for success in further education and career: • Further increase graduation rate from 85.7 percent to 92 percent. • Increase career and college readiness from 32 percent to 67 percent. • Close graduation and career and college readiness gaps by 50 percent. • Increase the percentage of students scoring proficient in third-grade reading and eighth-grade mathematics. • Adopt the Fair Funding for Our Future plan to make school finance more equitable and transparent

6. State Superintendent's Digital Learning Advisory Council (DLAC) • Develop a comprehensive strategy for digital learning in Wisconsin • Provide recommendations to the State Superintendent on initiatives that promote and advance digital learning. • Use technology to enhance and improve student learning • Create opportunities for personalized learning • Create news ways of teaching and opportunities to leverage technology • Align learning resources and teaching opportunities to meet academic standards so every child is career and college ready

7. Common Core State Standards Implementation Team (CCSSI) All Wisconsin students need relevant and rigorous literacy and mathematics instruction to ensure academic proficiency and success beyond graduation. Technology and information fluency are essential skills to be productive members of a global society.

8. Common Core National Adoption 8

9. All districts on Stateside Student Information System (SSIS) • SMARTER Balanced assessment field testing • Educator Effectiveness statewide system pilot Wisconsin becomes the first state to adopt the CCSS WI CCSS and SBAC Timeline DPI provides curricular resources for CCSS implementation; establishes the CCSSI Team • CCSS fully incorporated into school/district curricula • SMARTER Balanced assessment replaces existing statewide assessment • Educator Effectiveness system implemented statewide Higher graduation requirements (needs legislation) 04/07/13 9

10. Common Core provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn, so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help them. Common Core State Standards are designed to be robust and relevant to the real world, reflecting the knowledge and skills that our young people need for success in college and careers. Common Core allows for professional collaboration, shared resources and personal learning networks. Common Core promotes digitally rich learning experiences, resources and opportunities to learn beyond classroom walls. Common Core = Common Ground 10

11. Chunking Working smarter leveraging collaboration Leverage shared resources Support instructional planning process Create your own digital toolbox to align with outcomes Build a structure for team planning and collaboration Crosswalks of standards Information literacy, inquiry, crosswalk of reading/writing/speaking Common Core = Common Ground 11

12. High-quality instruction is the foundation of WI Common Core adoption and key for educator effectiveness • Standards and Curriculum • Standards-based • Aligned to instruction & assessment • Differentiated • Mapped • Connected • Authentic • Instruction • Scaffolded • Research-based • Culturally responsive • Differentiated • Technology infused • Student centered • Reflective • Assessment • Observable • Informative • Authentic • Balanced • Clearly articulated • Differentiated 12

13. Connected Work to Instruction

14. WI Characteristics of Mathematically Proficient Students 14

15. WI Portrait of a Literate Student 15

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17. ELA Areas 17 04/07/13

18. ELA by Grade 18

19. ELA Major Concept: Text 19

20. Texts by Grade Level 20

21. ELA Text Complexity Model • Levels of meaning • Structure • Language conventionality and clarity • Knowledge demands • Best determined by a human reader • Word frequency • Sentence length • Text cohesion • Best determined by computer software, such as Lexile. • Motivation • Knowledge/experiences • Purpose • Task complexity 21

22. Other ELA Areas 22 04/07/13

23. Informative / Explanatory 04/07/13 23

24. Informative / Explanatory 04/07/13 24

25. Narrative 04/07/13 25

26. Narrative 04/07/13 26

27. ELA Areas 27 04/07/13

28. Present information, findings, and supporting evidence such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, and style are appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience Make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express information and enhance understanding of presentations Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and communicative tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas 04/07/13 28

29. ELA Areas 29 04/07/13

30. Show awareness Use shared vocabulary Establish a connection Take stock Be proactive School wide collaboration for rigor and relevance of curriculum Technology fluency empowering students in digitally rich learning experiences General Recommendations for Finding Common Ground 30

31. Reading and writing across all subject areas Common expectations: close reading, informational text, research DPI Disciplinary Literacy Suitcase listed in resources Promote balanced reading approach Opportunities for digital literacy Disciplinary Literacy 31

32. Technology is the supplement to the “how” of learning to improve student outcomes Learning is the Goal… 32

33. “Unless technology is woven throughout these standards, the credibility of any claim that they will better prepare students in the 21st century is diminished.” NCTM Public Comments on the Common Core Standards for Mathematics - nctm.org 33

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35. Facilitators for learning that empower students through inquiry Share responsibility for developing literacy in speaking, writing, reading and listening Real world applications integrated into higher order thinking and learning Personalized support for students All educators are teachers of technology Model digital citizenship and literacy for their students Collaborators with resource teachers and library media specialists Connected educators and personal learning networks to extend professional learning Understand focus is how tools support student learning and promote engagement The Transformed Role of Educators 35

36. Learning & Innovation: 4C’s Critical Thinking & Problem Solving Creativity and Innovation Communications Collaboration Digital Literacy Information & Media Literacy ICT Literacy Keyboarding skills Life and Career: Students are empowered and active learners Flexibility & Adaptability Initiative & Self-Direction Social & Cross-Cultural Skills Productivity & Accountability Leadership & Responsibility Know how to learn with inquiry process Elements of Wisconsin Career & College Ready Students 36

37. The “How” of Achieving the Core Students are curators, communicators and creators of authentic learning..pick the tools to achieve these goals 37

38. Build your digital toolbox experimenting with tools that can enhance learning and teaching Move to virtual environments to extend learning, promote communication and collaboration of students Improve engagement of students through digital tools Information literacy and digital citizenship are foundation blocks Learner centered classrooms and experiences Students are well versed in a variety of technology tools, skills to select appropriate tools and have understanding of media literacy process Technology Fluency 38

39. WISELearn Tagging projects OER movement Wisconsin Connected Educators Big Three: CCSS, SBAC, EE Common Core = Common Ground 39

40. WISElearnDigital Portal • WI State budget for creation of WISELearn portal that will include options for digital learning tools, Open Education Resources and virtual learning courses • WISELearn will assist with implementation of Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and Smarter Balanced Assessment (SBAC) to assist in making all educators effectives • WISELearn will promote equitable opportunities of resources and learning opportunities for all Wisconsin students • Online and blended learning platform for ALL WI students • Efficient tool for searching for quality content • A platform for digital “textbooks” • Professional learning communities, events calendar • Crowdsourcing option where teachers rating quality of content, e.g., Yelp, Trip Advisor, etc. • “Big data” for instructional feedback loops when combined with algorithms • Partnerships across WI education organizations

41. WISElearn Educator Resource Portal Collaboration Cloud Learning Management System Content Repository Statewide Student Information System Data Warehouse WISEdash WISEmaps, SDPR, MDAT, SAFE Academic & Career Plans Educator Licensing Online Early Childhood Assessments Local, state, national Postsecondary

42. WISElearn (Educator Resource Portal) Portal – the “gateway” to the tools and functions Collaboration Cloud Teacher - student, teacher - teacher, student - student, teacher - parent Learning Management System Shared courses, units and lessons; by Common Core and more Content Repository Customized PBS LearningMedia- System Video, web sites, documents, audio, assessments, etc. Curriculum Content Development & Technical Support

43. Emerging Digital Technology Trends and Resources “At the heart of the movement towards Open Education Resources is the simple and powerful idea that the world’s knowledge if a public good and that technology in general, and the Worldwide Web in particular, provide an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use and re-use knowledge.” The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Note: quoted at Virtual School Symposium/NROC 2012

44. DPI Open Education Resource Statewide Team • DPI appointed OER team that will expand across content areas and implement the goals of the Digital Learning Advisory Council • OER Team working with other states to identify rubrics for OER evaluation and tagging system for effective search of CCSS aligned resources • CCSS Team will release in late spring CCSS Publisher Criteria for ELA and Mathematics textbooks • OER team will serve on WISELearn development team to help identify content and system of integrating resources into portal for equitable access by all WI students and educators

45. Definition of Open Education Resources (OER) • Any material that is useful for learning in public domain or published under the Creative Commons Licensing free for schools to adopt for equitable access and adaptability • Encourages use in full, remixing or authoring of material for adoption, improvement, personalized learning opportunities • Creates ability to evaluate and align resources to standards and assessments • Ability to have teachers collaboratively engage in integrating and organizing OER resources, units, texts or courses • Redistribute and share with others • Part of open education an d learning era that can enhance access to and creation of personalized learning opportunities

46. Why OER in the Digital Era? • Flexibility of learning materials • Personalize learning content for students • Open course ware learning opportunities increasing rapidly for not entire educational spectrum • Collaboration on making, sharing and use content • Goal to create search mechanisms for personalized content • Aligned to DLAC goals of equitable and learning opportunities to meet the needs of learners

47. OER Content Selection: Curricular Alignment Criteria • Alignment to standards • Quality of explanation of subject matter • Utility of material to support teaching • Quality of assessment • Quality of technology interactivity • Quality of instructional and practices exercises • Opportunities for deeper learning • Assurance of accessibility • Credibility of provider • Alignment to personalized learning instructional goals • *OER Achieve Rubrics criteria

48. OER Creative Commons • -Information on licensing your content as Creative Commons • -Resource portal that will include CCSS aligned materials • -OER guide for schools • http://creativecommons.org/education

49. Open Education Resources Listed in DLAC Plan • OER Commons http://www.oercommons.org/Connexions http://cnx.org/Curriki http://www.curriki.org/MIT Opencourseware http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htmOpen course Library http://opencourselibrary.wikispaces.com/Utah State Opencourseware http://ocw.usu.edu/Berkeley webcasts http://Webcast.berkeley.eduOpen Learning Initiative, Carnegie Melon http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/Flatworld Knowledge http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/OpenCourseWare Consortium http://www.ocwconsortium.org/Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources http://oerconsortium.org/ • Itunes U http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/

50. Open Education Resources Listed in DLAC Plan • OER resources (from @opencontent, David Wiley)http://eli2011.pathable.com/user_profiles/david-wileyhttp://opencontent.org/blog/http://www.slideshare.net/opencontent/educause-2010-openness-data-and-a-sustainable-future-for-educationMore:http://onlineuniversityrankings.org/2009/the-worlds-50-best-open-courseware-collections/ • K-12http://www.openhighschool.org/http://www.hippocampus.org/http://www.ck12.org/flexbook/