Robla School DistrictFocusing on the Common Core State Standards

2012-2013

What is Changing?

Common Core State Standards Are Here!

New State Assessment in 2014-2015

IlluminateBenchmark AssessmentsMore Data, more oftenDistrict-Wide Consistency

New Report Cards

High Expectations

Common Core State Standards

Prepare students for success in college and career

Are very demanding

Focus on high-order thinking skills

Are based upon student success in other top performing countries, so that all students are prepared to succeed in our global economy and society

Higher Level Thinking

BLOOM’S REVISED TAXONOMY

CreatingGenerating new ideas, products, or ways of viewing thingsDesigning, constructing, planning, producing, inventing.

 Evaluating

Justifying a decision or course of actionChecking, hypothesizing, critiquing, experimenting, judging

  Analyzing

Breaking information into parts to explore understandings and relationshipsComparing, organizing, deconstructing, interrogating, finding

 Applying

Using information in another familiar situationImplementing, carrying out, using, executing

 Understanding

Explaining ideas or conceptsInterpreting, summarizing, paraphrasing, classifying, explaining

 Remembering

Recalling informationRecognizing, listing, describing, retrieving, naming, finding

 

How Teaching is Changing . . .

English Language Arts

• Balance of Fiction and Non-Fiction

• Reading at Higher Levels

• Focus on High-Level Thinking

• Finding Evidence in the text

For Example

We used to ask . . .

What is the name of the pig Fern whose life is saved by Fern?

or

Have you ever loved a pet in the way that Fern loves Wilbur? Tell me about your pet.

For Example

Now we ask . . .

What kind of person is Mr. Arable? How do you know? Find evidence in the book to support your ideas.

How Teaching is Changing . . .

Mathematics

Focus on Problem-solving

Focus on understanding the concept not on procedures

Foundational Skills

Collaboration

Multiple Ways to Solve A Problem

For Example . . .

Math Used to look like this

Common Core Mathematics

A Third Grade Word Problem :

Two groups of students from Taylor Street Elementary School were walking to the library when it began to rain. The 7 students in Ms. Kimble’s group shared the 3 large umbrellas they had with Ms. Smith’s group of 11 students. If the same number of students were under each umbrella, how many students were under each umbrella? Draw a picture to help you solve the problem.

Smarter Balance Assessment Consortium

28 States

Comprehensive testing in grades 3-8 & 11

Goal: Ensure students are successful in post secondary education or career

Begins in spring of 2015

End-of –the-Year performance tasks in reading, writing and math

Variety of Items: selected response, short constructed response, extended constructed response, technology enhanced & performance tasks

Sample Item: Mathematics Constructed Response

Sample Item

Illuminate Student Information System

Data Management System

Benchmark Assessments

7 times per year

Common to all classrooms at a grade level

Multiple choice (except at K-1)

Language Arts & Mathematics

Writing Assessments will be performance task

New Report Cards for 2012-2013

• A year in development

• Created by grade level teachers

• Input from grade level colleagues, parents

• Directly connected to Illuminate grade book

• Grades will be based upon benchmark assessments and other common assessments

Second Grade Report Card

Sixth Grade Report Card

Proficiency Levels

STAR Test Report Card Levels

Advanced

Proficient 4Proficient (80%-100%)

Basic 3 Basic (65%-79%)

Below Basic 2 Below Basic (55%-64%

Far Below Basic 1 Far Below Basic (0-54%)

How Robla School District Supports Students who are

not yet Proficient

Intervention Teachers at Each School Extended Day for Grades 1-3 Intervention Groups such as W.I.N. time Computer Programs for Skill Practice

LexiaAccelerated Reader (at some schools)Orchard

After School Tutoring Extra ELD Support for EL students beyond core ELD After School Tutoring at some schools Reading Partners at Glenwood and Bell Avenue

To Learn More About Common Core State Standards:

You can visit these websites:

scoe.net

cde.ca.gov

Visit your child’s classroomSpeak to your child’s teacherBecome involved at your child’s school and

attend School Site Council Meetings

For information about this presentation in Spanish, Hmong or Russian speak to the Bilingual Community Outreach Assistant at your school