Early Release Professional Development

Common Core

April 13, 2011Kathy Walker

Celebrations

• PLC Chairs were given forms – some of those celebrations are posted.

• Complete as we finish the year and let’s continue to celebrate each other.

Anticipatory Set

Imagine you have written a best-selling autobiography. It’s your story and your life, and millions of people love it. You sell the rights to a producer. Hollywood makes your movie…

• You go to the premiere…• Oh no, the story is not your book? • Who’s life is it anyway? • Some things look familiar – but others are new…

unfamiliar… even down right different.

• What do you do?

A New Trek

Tentative Plan for District Roll-out of the Common Core

TimelineISS Timeline for Common Core and New Essential Standards

  2010-11 2011-12 2012-13

EnglishCurrent SCS taught and

assessedCommon Core taught &

Current SCS assessedCommon Core taught &

assessed

MathCurrent SCS taught and

assessed

K-2 Common Core taught & assessed 3-12 Current SCS taught and assessed

Common Core taught & assessed

ScienceCurrent SCS taught and

assessedCurrent SCS taught and

assessedNew Essential Standards

taught & assessed

Social Studies, Healthful Living, Arts, World Languages

Current SCS taught and assessed

Current SCS taught and assessed

New Essential Standards taught & assessed

Career and Technical Education

Current SCS taught and assessed

Current SCS taught and assessed

New Essential Standards taught & assessed

Information and Technology Skills

New Essential Standards piloted with current SCS

New Essential Standards taught

New Essential Standards taught

Math Problem

• Question: How many rectangles can you make with a perimeter of 30 units?

• Use any of the tools provided

Math

• Share out your process• Connect what you did to the 8 Math Practices• Common Core is more interested in problem

solving and approach than the answer.

The answer is part of the process. It’s not the end product.

--Phil Daro

Assessed on EOG

• What is the area of this rectangle?

a. 16b. 20c. 17d. 12

Source: http://ncctm.org/documents/Daro-CommonCoreStandards.pdf

Sometimes a tool is just right for the

wrong use.

8 Mathematical Processes

• Watch video clips

• Can you see any of the 8 practices?

• Look for any of 8 mathematical practices

• Share out

Questions for Discussion

• Handout- reflecting on where your teachers are now in their instructional processes and planning with the end in mind

College & Career Readiness Anchors

• Reading• Writing• Language • Speaking and Listening

ELA

• Spiraling ActivityAs a table team, arrange the pieces in the

envelope from K to 12th grade.

Vocabulary

Mathematical PracticesAnchorsClusters

Capacities

Lions, Tigers and Bears… oh my!

• An introduction to comprehending informational texts

• Goal: All students reading and comprehending independently and proficiently the kinds of complex texts commonly found in college and careers.

Essential Question

• What does it mean for a child to be literate in science? Or social studies? Or art? Or CTE?

Activity to understand comprehension of informational text

• Jigsaw (4 people per group)- Read “Learn About-Comprehension of Informational Text”

• Fill out your graphic organizer based on your part

• Share with each other in your group

Activity to understand comprehension of informational text

• Each group create 2 questions about the text (1 implicit/ 1 explicit)- record on strip and place in your envelope

• Discuss the answers to the questions in another envelope

• With your group, write a summary on the envelope of the text

Cross Walks

• Take a look at the crosswalk documents with your PLC content area

• Record and thoughts or notes• Keep document with PLC notebooks and

record any observations about Common Core.

Exit Ticket

1. What excites you about the Common Core for your grade level, school, content area?

2. What is the greatest challenge for your grade level, school, content area about the Common Core?

Break

7 Habits Survey

• Available on-line – take a few minutes now

EOG Test Training/Error Reporting

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7th Grade Writing

Leigh Brown

Remaining Time

• LightHouse Team to meet in Mrs. Johnson’s room

• Talent Show video rehearsal in gym• Academic lab available for Moodle grading• Collaborative Planning