Transition To The Common Core

Transforming Teaching &

Learning

Santa Clara County Office of Education

August 27, 2012

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Strategic Plan 2010-14Strategic Plan 2010-14

Pillar One: College and Career

Ready Students

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Common Core Standards (CCS) FocusCommon Core Standards (CCS) FocusThe focus of the CCS is

to guarantee that all students are college

and career ready as they exit from

high school.

Common Core Standards Framework

Common Core

Content Standards

Instructional Shifts

Practices (Math)/

Descriptors (ELA)

Curriculum

Equity

Assessment

Teaching & Learning

Cautions: Implementing the CCSS is...

Not about “gap analysis” Not about buying a text series Not a march through the

standards Not about breaking apart each

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Consensus Building

Professional Learning

Infrastructure of Support

Implementation Design

Framework for Action

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Consensus Building• Stakeholder Committee• Leadership Development• Teacher Collaboration– Cohort A – Cohort B

Leaders (Principals & Asst. Principals) Create

Instructional Identity

Work Team (Cohort A) Build the Curriculum Design

Data Inquiry Teams Embed CCS Tasks into the Inquiry

Process as Solutions to the LCPs

Phase I – ELA Focus

Phase II – ELA Focus

Cohort A – Work Team

* Develop & Implement Common Interim

Assessments* Examine

Student Work* Revise

Cohort B – Implement. Sites

* Develop & Implement Classroom

Assignments/Tasks* Examine

Student Work* Revise

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Data In

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Professional LearningStandards

Interpretation

Expected Evidence of Student

Learning

Text-based Discussion (Research)

Model Construction (Trying on the Work)

Task & Instructional Plan

Student Work Examination

Revision of Task &

Instructional Plan

Infrastructure of Support• Leadership Development• Professional Learning• Alignment of Current Resources &

Practices• Supplemental Resources & Strategies• Electronic Library• Community Awareness & Knowledge

Building

• Changing the district’s instructional culture is hard work, messy, and takes time• School and district leadership matter• Infrastructure of support is vital• Learning is the doing and the doing is

the learning

Lessons Learned

• Cohort B • ELA Leadership Cadre• Math Focus Schools• Monthly Leadership Meetings• Electronic Library• Community Engagement

Phase III – ELA & Math