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Common Core Learning
Standards
as they relate to the Regents
Reform Agenda
Garden City Public Schools
Board of Education Presentation
February 2014
GARDEN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
Mission Statement
 The Garden City School District seeks to create an
environment for learning which enables each student
the opportunity to grow as an individual as well as a
group member while striving to achieve the optimal
level of academic, social and personal success.
 Students will thrive in a learning environment that is
developmentally appropriate, individualized and
challenging.
 Our goal and responsibility is to help each student
develop an enthusiasm for learning, a respect for self
and others, and the skills to become a creative
independent thinker and problem solver.
Background: Race to the Top
• The federal administration invited states to compete for $4.3
billion
• States agreed to evaluate teachers by student test scores, award
bonuses to teachers based on student scores, permit charter
schools, and “turn around” low-performing schools
• 45 states + DC have adopted the Common Core State Standards
• NYS approved additions to the Common Core State Standards in
Mathematics and Literacy plus a new set of Prekindergarten
Standards
• NYS received $700million funding from RTTT, of which
$300million awarded to NYC
The Garden City School District was awarded ZERO DOLLARS!
NYS Board of Regents Reform Agenda
• Implement instructional changes to raise rigor and
accountability– Common Core Learning Standards (CCLS) and
mandated state assessments
• Implement a system for supporting highly effective teachers
and principals– Annual Professional Performance Review
(APPR)
• Create a data repository to measure student success and
provide feedback on program effectiveness
Public schools districts in NYS must comply with regulations
established by the state. There is no option to “opt out.”
What is the Common Core?
The Common Core Learning Standards are
guidelines for what students should know and
be able to do at various points in their school
careers.
The standards are designed to promote critical
thinking, encourage a deep understanding of
content, and build skills with the goal of
enabling all students to be college-and-career
ready.
Facts about the Common Core
The CCLS are not a curriculum or a particular course of study.
Garden City Public Schools has been, and continues to be, in
charge of its curricula. Our teachers do not use scripted lessons.
Garden City has been implementing the CCLS gradually, first by
studying it during the 2010-11 school year, and then by making
prudent changes and adaptations to existing curricula during the
past two years.
Instructional modules provided by SED have been reviewed to see
how well aligned they are with the Common Core, our existing
curricula, and our plans for future curriculum development.
Common Core Learning Standards
for English Language Arts and
Literacy in History/Social Studies,
Science and Technical Subjects
Key Advances in the Common Core
ELA/Literacy Standards
Reading
• Balance of literature and informational texts
• Focus on text complexity and what students read
Writing
• Emphasis on argument and informative/explanatory writing
• Writing about sources (evidence)
Speaking and Listening
• Inclusion of formal and informal talk
Language
• Stress on academic and domain-specific vocabulary
Address reading and writing across the curriculum
• Responsibility of teachers in those subjects
• Complement rather than replace content standards in those
subjects
Grade-Level Progression in Reading
Reading Standards for Literature
Reading Standards for Informational Text
Grade 3: Describe characters in a story
(e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings)
and explain how their actions contribute
to the sequence of events.
Grade 3: Describe the relationships between
a series of historical events, scientific ideas of
concepts, or steps in technical procedures in
a text, using language that pertains to time,
sequence, and cause/effect.
Grade 7: Analyze how particular elements
of a story or drama interact (e.g., how
setting shapes the characters or plot)
Grade 7: Analyze the interactions between
individuals, events, and ideas in a text (e.g.,
how ideas influence individuals or events, or
how individuals influence ideas or events).
Grades 11-12: Evaluate various
explanations for characters’ actions or for
events and determine which explanation
best accords with textual evidence,
acknowledging where the text leaves
matters uncertain.
Grades 11-12: Analyze a complex set of ideas
or sequence of events and explain how
specific individuals, ideas, or events interact
and develop over the course of the text.
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Overview of Reading and Writing Strands
• Encourage students to expand their reading horizons
and include a greater emphasis on non-fiction and
close reading of texts
• Expect students to compose arguments and opinions,
informative/explanatory pieces, and narrative texts
• Focus on the use of reason and evidence to
substantiate an argument or claim
• Require students to incorporate technology as they
create, refine, and collaborate on writing
• Emphasize ability to conduct research – short projects
and sustained inquiry
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Overview of Speaking and Listening and Language Strands
Speaking and Listening
• Focus on speaking and listening, both formal and informal –
academic, small-group, whole-class discussions
• Emphasize effective communication practices
• Require interpretation and analysis of message as presented
through oral, visual, or multimodal formats
Language
• Include conventions for writing and speaking
• Highlight the importance of vocabulary acquisition through a
mix of conversation, direct instruction, and reading
• Address in context of reading, writing, speaking and listening
Media and Technology are integrated throughout the
standards.
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Common Core Learning Standards
for
Mathematics
Key Advances in the Common Core
Math Standards
Focus and coherence
• Focus on key topics at each grade level
• Coherent progressions across grade levels
Depth over breadth
• Allows more time for mastery
Balance of concepts and skills
• Content standards require both conceptual understanding and
procedural fluency
Mathematical practices
• Foster reasoning and sense-making in mathematics
Overview of the K-8 Mathematics Standards
•
The K-5 standards provide students with a solid foundation in
whole numbers, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division,
fractions and decimals
•
The 6-8 standards describe robust learning in geometry, algebra,
and probability and statistics
•
Modeled after the focus of standards from high-performing
nations, the standards for grades 7 and 8 include significant
algebra and geometry content
•
Students who have completed 7th grade and mastered the content
and skills will be prepared for algebra, in 8th grade or after
Priorities in Mathematics
Grade
K–2
3–5
6
7
8
Priorities in Support of Rich Instruction and Expectations of
Fluency and Conceptual Understanding
Addition and subtraction, measurement using
whole number quantities
Multiplication and division of whole numbers and
fractions
Ratios and proportional reasoning; early
expressions and equations
Ratios and proportional reasoning; arithmetic of
rational numbers
Linear algebra
Domain Progression in the NYS
Common Core Learning Standards
PK - 8 Domain Progression
Domain
Counting and Cardinality
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Number and Operations in Base Ten
Number and Operations - Fractions
Ratios and Proportional Relationships
The Number System
Expressions and Equations
Functions
Measurement and Data
Geometry
Statistics and Probability
PK
K
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Math Progression
• This progression addresses the “mile wide and an inch
deep” problem associated with previous standards. In
order to promote critical thinking and problem solving,
fewer topics are being taught, but taught more deeply.
• The new standards devote more attention to
developing understandings of place value, fractions
and algebraic concepts, thereby providing a stronger
foundation and skill-set for students as they prepare
for post-secondary education.
Grade 6 Mathematics Overview
Ratios and Proportional Relationships
• Understand ratio concepts and use
ratio reasoning to solve problems.
The Number System
• Apply and extend previous
understandings of multiplication and
division to divide fractions by
fractions.
• Compute fluently with multi-digit
numbers and find common factors
and multiples.
• Apply and extend previous
understandings of numbers to the
system of rational numbers.
Geometry
• Solve real-world and mathematical
problems involving area, surface
area, and volume.
Expressions and Equations
• Apply and extend previous
understandings of arithmetic to
algebraic expressions.
• Reason about and solve one-variable
equations and inequalities.
• Represent and analyze quantitative
relationships between dependent
and independent variables.
Statistics and Probability
• Develop understanding of statistical
variability.
• Summarize and describe distributions.
Building Knowledge in the Disciplines:
Grades 6-12
• Content area teachers outside of the ELA
classroom emphasize literacy experiences in
their planning and instruction
• Students learn through domain-specific
texts in science and social studies
classrooms – rather than referring to the
text, they are expected to learn from what
they read
NYS Common Core Assessments
• In Spring 2013, New York State administered the
first ELA/Literacy and Mathematics Common Core
tests to students in grades 3-8
• In June 2014, Common Core Algebra Regents
exam will be administered. Accelerated eighth
graders will NOT sit for the grade 8 math
assessment.
• Current ninth graders will sit for the Common
Core English Regents exam in 2016 during their
junior year
Extra help, support classes and academic intervention services are
provided to assist students who are struggling to meet standards.
2013 Grade 3 ELA assessment questions
Copycat Elephants by Michael Thai
Which detail about Mlaika helps
explain the strange sounds she was
making?
A She was an African elephant.
B She lived in Kenya.
C She lived near a highway.
D She was ten years old.
Which paragraph in the article shows
how people are most like the animals?
A Paragraph 2
B Paragraph 3
C Paragraph 5
D Paragraph 7
Which detail best supports the article’s main idea?
A Parrots copy human sounds
B People copy sounds and noises.
C Mlaika is one of the elephants that copy sounds.
D Dr. Joyce H. Poole studies mammals that copy sounds.
2013 Grade 3 ELA assessment questions
Copycat Elephants by Michael Thai
Read the sentence from paragraph 7.
When they are kept outside of their natural environment, they may copy
unusual sounds.
What is the meaning of “environment” in this sentence?
A the work a person or animal does
B the place a person or animal lives
C the family a person or animal has
D the noise a person or animal makes
Read the sentence from paragraph 6.
Dr. Poole says that elephants, too, need to form bonds with their family and
friends.
Which action in the article best shows the forming of a “bond”?
A imitating a truck
B talking on television
C learning to chirp
D studying animal sounds
2013 Grade 3 math assessment released
question
2013 Grade 3 math question- answer key
2013 Grade 5 math assessment released
question
2013 Grade 5 math question- answer key
Issues Regarding Implementation
The hasty roll out of the Regents Reform Agenda has led to many concerns
and questions about implementing all of these changes at one time.
 Simultaneous grade level roll-out of standards rather than gradual
implementation.
 Instructional resources provided by the State Education Department were
not released in a timely fashion.
 Increased length and level of rigor state assessments; SED set higher cut
scores to meet proficiency.
 Teacher evaluation process aligned with student growth and/or
achievement by on local and state assessments.
 Collection of student data.
 Additional unfunded mandates; state monies allocated to high need, low
wealth districts.
The NYS Board of Regents is expected to announce an “action
plan” in February 2014 to address issues concerning the
implementation of the Regents Reform Agenda.
Collection of Student Data- inBloom
• NYS selected inBloom as the vendor for its student data repository
• The privacy of student data is currently regulated by the Family
Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
• There is no current “opt out” of the reporting of student data. NYS
collects many data points, including grades, test results and attendance
records
• NYS had previously uploaded 90% of data on 2.7 million public and
charter school students to inBloom. The uploaded data was stripped of
students’ names.
• Eight of nine states that signed on to use inBloom have withdrawn,
citing privacy and security issues. NYS is the sole remaining subscriber.
As of January 19, 2014, the SED has decided to postpone the
uploading of additional student data until April 2014. The new
data is slated to include personally identifiable information.
Annual Professional Performance
Review (APPR)
• Process by which teachers and principals are evaluated
• Details of the evaluation process are negotiated locally by each district
• All K-12 teachers and principals are evaluated on classroom observations
(or, for principals, leadership and management observation), student
growth and student achievement
• The NYS standardized assessments for grades 3-11 in ELA and
mathematics are required by the federal government and are tied to RTTT
and NCLB funding. Regents exams in social studies and science are
required by NYS.
• Process for developing APPR plans is outlined by state education law, and
all plans must adhere to certain requirements to be approved by the State
Education Department
• The specific standards for successful student growth and achievement are
decided by each district. Teachers who do not receive a growth score
from the state are evaluated on student progress against learning targets
set by each district for each grade level or course.
Parent Resources
• Garden City Math Video Resources
http://www.gardencity.k12.ny.us/for_parents/math_video_resources
• ThinkCentral Go Math Resources
http://www-k6.thinkcentral.com
• Common Core Learning Standards Information
http://www.gardencity.k12.ny.us/district_offices/curriculum___instruction/common_core_learning_standards/
• Parent Resources: Grades 3-8 ELA and mathematics assessments
http://www.engageny.org/resource/parent-resources-grades-3-8-ela-mathematics-tests
• New York State P-12 Common Core Learning Standards for English
Language Arts & Literacy
http://www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/common_core_standards/pdfdocs/nysp12cclsela.pdf
• Download free Common Core App to your smart phone or tablet
Questions?