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Advancing Success of Common Core Implementation and High Quality Professional Learning

Advancing Success of Common Core Implementation and High Quality Professional Learning. American Federation of Teachers May 2, 2013. Supporting Implementation of the Common Core State Standards. Building a strong system of supports for implementation

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Advancing Success of Common Core Implementation and High Quality Professional Learning

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  1. Advancing Success of Common Core Implementation and High Quality Professional Learning American Federation of Teachers May 2, 2013

  2. Supporting Implementation of the Common Core State Standards • Building a strong system of supports for implementation • Setting clear goals, expectations and a process for checking progress on implementation • Developing cadres of teacher leaders who can move the work forward • Staying engaged in the work and collaborating with community and stakeholders

  3. Consider the Following Action Steps: • Develop a plan that includes building awareness, transitioning and implementation • Assist in identifying adjustments in the school day scheduling and programming • Prioritize resources and allocations that support teachers and students • Coordinate teams of teachers to lead alignment work • Advocate for high quality professional development • Develop a communication plan

  4. Awareness • Create broad stakeholder awareness of the new Common Core State Standards (teachers, parents, principals, district administrators, school board members, civic leaders, elected officials, etc) • Prepare professional development presentations to highlight the Instructional Shifts for ELA and Mathematics • Develop a sustainable, long-term plan for implementation

  5. Transition • Identify and train lead teacher cadres who can be common core advocates and train other educators • Align district curriculum to the new CCSS and evaluate supporting resources for usefulness • Provide opportunities for educators to deconstruct the standards to develop a common understanding of their meaning • Develop Formative Assessments

  6. Implementation • Support for the school and classroom • On-going professional development • Opportunity to practice and refine instructional strategies aligned to the CCSS • System for evaluating effectiveness of the plan and receive a cycle of feedback from educators on needs assessment • Understand the assessments • Continuous plan for communication • Continually review available resources

  7. Examine School Infrastructure • Staff meetings become professional learning opportunities • Common planning time is a deliberate part of the school day scheduling • Resource dollars are reallocated to focus on professional development across all schools and all grades • Use of literacy and math coaches to provide job-embedded professional development

  8. Examine School Infrastructure, cont. • Routine time is scheduled throughout the school year within the contract day for collaborative professional learning. • Opportunities are created for teachers to be able to visit other classrooms/schools. • Opportunities are provided for teachers to attend/participate in specialized professional learning outside of their school day.

  9. Professional Development • Includes all teachers, including paraprofessionals and teachers in non-tested grades/subject areas • Is collaborative • Is compensated if outside of the school day/year • Identifies a Process for monitoring and assessing effectiveness • Provides clear purpose for use of information • Provides additional support – webinars and resource libraries

  10. Professional Development, cont. • Ensure capacity to maintain accurate records regarding teachers’ professional development. • Acknowledge that there are multiple types of professional development offerings to access. • Provide support for professional learning.

  11. Assessing Alignment to the Common Core State Standards – A Curriculum Review Tool for English Language Arts and Mathematics AFT Resource Tool

  12. Communication

  13. Communication Strategy • Messenger & Message • Audience • Mode • What to include: • Vision Statement • Why the new standards are important • What it means for teaching & learning • Implementation timeline • Accountability systems

  14. The Standards • The goal of these standards is for all students to be college- and career-ready. • The standards: • are more focused • call for deeper levels of cognitive understanding • hold higher expectations for our students • This has REAL and SIGNIFICANTimplications for instruction.

  15. Adoption of Standards • To be meaningful, the standards will need a comprehensive systematic approach consisting of: • aligned curriculum, professional development, resources, assessments • time for planning and collegial conversations • adequate teaching and learning conditions • collaborative labor management relationships

  16. Assessments:Did your state adopt PARCC or SMARTER Balanced?

  17. Implementing the Common Core State Standards; The Role of the Elementary School Leader, School Counselor & Secondary School Leader A Joint Action Brief by Achieve, College Summit, NASSP & NAESP with Support from the MetLife Foundation

  18. Resources • Share My Lesson • Colorin Colorado • Assessing Alignment to the Common Core State Standards A Curriculum Review Tool for English Language Arts; Mathematics • AFT Professional Development Summer Educator Academy • AFT Parent Letters

  19. Mathematics Resources • Progressions narratives http://commoncoretools.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/progressions-for-the-common-core/ • Illustrative Mathematics Project http://illustrativemathematics.org • Common Assessment Prototype Items PARCC http://www.parcconline.org/samples/item-task-prototypes • Mathematics Assessment Project (Gates) http://www.map.mathshell.org.uk/materials/ • Student Achievement Partners http://www.achievethecore.org/steal-these-tools/ • Hunt Institute Videos http://www.youtube.com/user/TheHuntInstitute

  20. Literacy Resources • CCSS, Appendices and related informationwww.corestandards.org • Professional development modules, exemplar text, close reading exemplarswww.achievethecore.org • A Primer on “Close Reading of Text”http://www.aspeninstitute.org/sites/default/files/content/docs/pubs/CR.Primer.print_.pdf • PTA’s Parents’ Guide to Student Success (K-8)www.pta.org/4446.htm

  21. Learn more and stay informed • Common Core State Standards Initiative www.corestandards.org • American Teacher www.aft.org/newspubs/periodicals Jan/2009 & May/June 2010 • Assessment consortia PARCC - www.parcconline.org Smarter Balanced - www.k12.wa.us/SMARTER • Recommendations from the AFT Ad Hoc Committee www.aft.org/about/resolution_detail.cfm?articleid=1612

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