Wolf Canyon Elementary School Curriculum Night - Maximizing Student Success

1. Wolf Canyon Elementary SchoolResponding to the Call of Excellence for All Curriculum Night Thursday, August 14, 2014

2. The Road Not Taken

3. Common Core State Standards • Adopted August 2010 • College & Career Readiness

4. State and Local Testing • California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) • California English Language Development (CELDT) • Califonia Standards Test (CST) Science – Grades 5, 8, 10 • Physical Fitness Test – Grades 5 and 7 • Local Measures

5. Smarter Balanced Assessments • Online Assessment • Multiple Choice and Performance Tasks • Computer-Adaptive – students will answer different questions according to their ability level as measured by the computer • Test requires a higher depth of knowledge to qualify a student as “proficient”

6. Smarter Balanced Sample Test ItemEnglish / Language Arts DoK is high! What grade level?

7. Smarter Balanced Sample Test ItemMathematics DoK is high! What grade level?

8. But my Child Scored Proficient… “Students will have to be better at: • Performing Analysis on Multiple Pieces of Info • Making Connections between Concepts • Reasoning, Justifying and Critiquing • Applying their Understanding to Perform Tasks …in order to be “Proficient”.

9. Local Measures • Reading • Math • Writing

10. Local Measures 2014Schoolwide

11. California Physical Fitness TestGrade 5 BMI standards changed from 2013 to 2014 to reflect Center for Disease Control (CDC) standards

12. Creativity Initiative and Entrepreneurialism Effective Oral and Written Communication Agility and Adaptability Critical Thinking Problem Solving Collaboration 21st Century Preparedness

13. Six Shifts in ELA/Literacy • Balancing Informational and Literary Text • Building Knowledge in the Disciplines • Complexity of Texts • Text-Based Answers/Evidence • Writing from and Citing from Sources • Academic Vocabulary

14. COMMON CORE READING Key Ideas and Details Craft and Structure Integration of Knowledge and Ideas Range of Reading and Level of Complexity Reading Across Content

15. What is a Lexile? • A Lexilemeasures an individual's reading ability or the difficulty of a text. • The Lexile measure is shown as a number with an "L" after it — 880L is 880 Lexile. • A student gets his or her Lexile reader measure from a reading test or program • A Lexile reader measure can range from below 200L for emergent readers to above 1600L for advanced readers

16. Preparing our students for College & Careers Metametrics

17. COMMON CORE WRITING • Text Types and Purposes • Production and Distribution of Writing • Research to Build and Present Knowledge • Range of Writing

18. CCSS Writing Text Types

19. COMMON CORE SPEAKING AND LISTENING • Comprehension and Collaboration • Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas

20. COMMON CORE LANGUAGE • Conventions of Standard English • Knowledge of Language • Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

21. COMMON CORE MATH

22. 6 Shifts in Math • Focus-narrow and deepen the scope of learning • Coherence-learning is connected across grades • Fluency-expectation for speed and accuracy • Deep Understanding-no tricks; no gimmicks • Application-transfer learning to new problems • Dual Intensity-balance between practice and understanding

23. 8 Standards of Mathematical Practices

25. Mathematical Proficiency DOING MATH

26. KEY SCHOOL POLICIES

27. ATTENDANCE

28. BEHAVIOR

29. DRESS CODE

30. HEALTH AND WELLNESS

31. HOMEWORK

32. SAFETY

33. SCHOOL COMMUNICATION

34. Toys, Gadgets, Jewelry, Hair Ornaments, Electronics

35. VISITORS AND VOLUNTEERS

36. QUESTIONS

37. Classroom Presentations 6:15 – 7:00 Session 1 7:15 – 8:00 Session 2