Join us for an essential Institute, introducing administrators and teachers to powerful strategies for planning instruction aligned to the Common Core State Standards that leverage existing resources (curricula, instructional frameworks, etc.) & tools to increase teacher effectiveness, improve student achievement, and evaluate assessment to improve relevancy and achieve balance.
Multiple Locations and Dates:
Times: Each workshop goes from 9:00 am – 2:30 pm. Registration opens at 8:30am
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Implications for the Common Core State Standards (CCSS): Leading in a World of Change
MORNING SESSION
Introductions
Overview of the CCSS: What It Means for Teachers and Administrators
- ELA and Math Overviews
- Resources
- Vertical Progressions
- The Appendices
- Four Critical Shifts in Literacy
- The Standards for Mathematical Practice
Developing Standards Literacy: Deconstructing Standards
- Concepts
- Learning Targets
- Learning Target Categories
- Skills Guidelines
- Skill Construction
- Securely Held Content
Lunch – Is on your own
AFTERNOON SESSION
Building Rigor! What you need to DO NOW to begin implementation
- Cognitive Demand/DOK/Bloom’s
- Surveys of Enacted Curriculum
- Learning Target Categories
- Learning Progressions
Implications for Assessments: What you need to KNOW NOW to become prepared
- Tests to Tasks
- Opportunity to Learn
Summary and Next steps
- What needs to be accomplished in the short and medium term
- Overview of future, regional Common Core Institutes