CSCOPE Overview and

Navigation

Socorro ISD

By

Bob Hood & Viola Lares

General Information• Welcome

• Norms

• Sit by content area.

• Folder

We are on a Mission

What words come to

mind when you think of

CSCOPE

CSCOPE Documents

• CSCOPE covers the 4 core subjects K-12:

– ELA, Math, Social Studies, and Science.

– Teachers have access to all 4 K-12

regardless of assignment.

• CSCOPE has 5 main documents:

– Vertical Alignment Document (VAD)

– Year at-a-Glance (YAG)

– Instructional Focus Document (IFD)

– Unit Assessments

– Exemplar Lessons

Vertical Alignment

Document (VAD)

Standards 12-K in

the Core Content Areas

How do you envision the Vertical

Alignment Document supporting

your instruction?

• Offers a common understanding of the

TEKS

• Defines expectations by grade level

• Provides alignment of how TEKS scaffold

upon one another

• Allows teachers to evaluate their lessons

• Provides the most current information

from state released materials

Year at a Glance:

TEKS bundled into

coherent

units of study

Year At A Glance

• ―Scope and Sequence‖

• Topics, order, and suggested timing.

• Flex time.

• Tested taught prior to TAKS.

• Coherent units of study—it just makes sense!

• Print and highlight tested TEKS.

• Make changes as a PLC!

How do you envision the

Year at a Glance

supporting your instruction?

The Year at a Glance will support my

instruction by…

Provides a suggested timeline to ensure that

each standard is taught within a school year

Addresses all testable TEKS prior to TAKS

administration

Sequences instruction so students spend

more time on the important standards for

each grade level

Instructional Focus

Documents (IFD):

Units of Study with

Conceptual Focus

Unit Assessments:

Aligning the written, tested,

and taught curriculum

Unit Assessments

• Grades 2-12.

• Mixture of formats.

• Not just TAKS-formatted.

• Measures mastery of an IFD.

• Each IFD has a corresponding Unit Assessment.

• To give the whole assessment, teach the whole unit start to finish.

• Picking and choosing Q’s….caution!

• Study it first before teaching the unit.

• Not intended to be benchmarks.

Lesson Frameworks:

Detailed Daily Lesson Plans

Evaluate a Lesson Using

The 5 E Model

– Engage – attention grabbing activities.

– Explore – prior knowledge, KWL deeper into topic.

– Explain – Teachers’ part – could be lecture,

clarification presentation.

– Elaborate – Extension, makes connections, research.

– Evaluate – Your summative assessment of some

type.

Ok…let’s log on!

• Bright blue sheet.

• Everyone needs to be on the home screen

before we can proceed….

– Computer log-in to my.sisd.net

– my sisd.net

– Teacher tools

– CScope link

• Log-in with your SISD username

• CScope password: socorro

Finding VAD, YAG, IFD and

Assessments OnlineTake out your Step – by – Step Guide and

follow along.

Time to Explore

• Let’s spend some time exploring the

lessons in your content area.

• Utilize the 5E Model

• Utilize CSCOPE tools

A Model for Continuous ImprovementVertical Alignment

Document (VAD):

Standards 12-K

In Core Content Areas:

Aligned and Specific

Year-At-A-Glance:

TEKS Bundled into

Coherent Units of Study

Instructional Focus

Documents (IFD):

Units of Study with

Conceptual Focus

Daily Lesson Plans:

Detailed Daily Lesson Plans

Focused

Professional

Development

Reflection

CSCOPE and TAKS

• CSCOPE isn’t TAKS-driven exclusively.

• All TEKS are addressed, not just tested

ones.

• Can CSCOPE improve your district’s

TAKS scores?

Closure

Questions