LAUSD Implementation March, 2012

Objectives
Understand the purpose of the transition to the CCSS

Understand how the transition to the CCSS will rollout and be implemented in LAUSD

Current California Standards: Lots to cover Not enough time

Current California Standards: Lack connections to real life / real world

Why the CCSS?

Defines what is needed for students to be college and

career ready by the end of high school

Research and evidence-based Rigorousdeep cognitive engagement and

application
Increased achievement by embedding literacy

standards into all content areas

Consistent expectations city, state, and nationwide
World-class learning outcomes for students

College and Career Ready

Master core content Develop key cognitive strategies

Take ownership for their learning and become proficient with a range of learning strategies Acquire the knowledge necessary to make a successful transition from secondary to postsecondary education

The Development
A state-led movement through the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers
Designed by a diverse group of teachers, professionals, organizations, parents, and school administrators to provide a clear and consistent framework to prepare our children for college and the workforce
Interactive Digital Library
FL IL

CA PA CT

RI

State silos of cost, effort, expertise

Shared platform for collaboration, cost and effort efficiencies, sharing of best practices

The CCSS do provide:

An outline of the most important essential skills and

knowledge every student needs to master to succeed in college and careers

The CCSS do not provide:

A complete scope and sequence A course outline, or
All the essential skills and knowledge students could have

Overall Shifts for Instruction

ELA/Literacy
Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction and informational texts Reading and writing grounded in evidence from text
Regular practice with complex text and the academic vocabulary embedded within

English Language Arts

Text-Dependent Questions allow students to have rich and rigorous conversations based on a common text. Complex Text prepares students for the complexity of college and career, with each grade level requiring a step of growth on the staircase. Informational Text gives students an opportunity to engage and interact with text that prepares them for the type of experiences they will encounter in college and careers.

Overall Shifts for Instruction

Mathematics
Focus: Focus deeply on what is emphasized in the standards

Coherence: Think across grades, and link to major topics within grades Rigor: Require fluency, application, and deep understanding

Mathematics
The shifts give emphasis to what matters most in the Common Core State Standards
Focus allows students to think and practice Coherence allows students to make connections among

mathematical ideas

Rigor allows students to show fluency, application, and a deep

understanding of mathematics

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics Standards for Mathematical Practice
1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. 4. Model with mathematics. 5. Use appropriate tools strategically. 6. Attend to precision.

7. Look for and make use of structure. 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

CDE: CCSS Implementation Milestones

LAUSD Phase-In for the CCSS

Awareness and Building Understanding of the CCSS
2011-12

Transition to and Implementation of the CCSS

2012-14

Transformation of Teaching and Learning

2014-and beyond

LAUSD Common Core Standards Transition Timeline

2011-2012 School Year 2012-2013 School Year 2013-2014 School Year 2014-2015 School Year
Phase 3 Standards Implementation of the following two shifts in all classrooms 1. Build knowledge through content-rich nonfiction and informational texts (ELA and Content courses). 2. Rigor: Require fluency, application, and deep understanding (Math). Assessments Full implementation of Smarter Balanced assessments Professional Development Monthly PD covering District CCSS priorities (all schools) Targeted professional development for 4th , 5th, high school teachers

Phase 1 Standards 1. Provide overview for all schools on CCSS 2. Implementation of the following two shifts in all classrooms a. Reading and writing grounded in evidence from text (ELA and content) b. Focus strongly where the Standards focus. (Math). 3. Transition grades Kindergarten, 1st grade, 6th and 9th grade from CSS to CCSS Assessments No changes in CST Some piloting of formative assessments in targeted grades Professional Development Monthly PD covering awareness and District CCSS priorities (all schools) Targeted professional development for Kindergarten, 1st 6th and 9th

Phase 2 Standards Implementation of the following two shifts in all classrooms 1. Regular practice with complex text and its academic vocabulary (ELA and Content courses). 2. Coherence: Think across grades, and link to major topics within grades (Math). Assessments No changes in CST Greater changes in assessments to focus on CCSS like assessments Professional Development Monthly PD covering District CCSS priorities (all schools) Targeted professional development for 2nd , 3rd , 7th, 8th and 10th grade teachers

Cohort 1: CCSS Implementation

2012-2013 School Year-Big Picture

All schools-all grades Provide overview for all schools on

CCSS Implementation of the following two shifts in all classrooms

1. Reading and writing grounded in evidence from text (ELA and

content)
2. Focus strongly where the

Standards focus
3. Math Practice 3

All Schools Some Grades Transition grades: K, 1st, 6th , 9th grade to CCSS Assessments No changes in CST Some piloting of formative assessments in targeted grades Professional Development Monthly PD covering awareness and District CCSS priorities (all schools) Targeted professional development for Kindergarten, 1st 6th and 9th

Cohort 2: CCSS Implementation

2013-2014 School Year-Big Picture

All schools-all grades Implementation of the following two shifts in all classrooms
1.

Grades 2nd, 3rd, 7th, 8th and 10th Deep understanding of the

Regular practice with complex text and its academic vocabulary Coherence: Think across grades, and link to major topics within grades
Math Practices - TBD

standards for the grade level Understanding of how the standards progress throughout grades Implementation with one ELA unit and one Math Unit
Kindergarten, 1st, 6th and 9th grades expand to 3 units with increasing text complexity

2.

3.

Cohort 3: CCSS Implementation

2014-2015 School Year-Big Picture

All schools-all grades Implementation of the following two shifts in all classrooms
1.

Grades 4th,5th and 11th Deep understanding of the

Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction and informational texts Rigor: Require fluency, application, and deep understanding (Math)

standards for the grade level Understanding of how the standards progress throughout grades Implementation with one ELA unit and one Math Unit
Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 7th and 8th , 9th and 10th grades expand to all units with increasing text complexity and use of informational text

2.

3.

Math Practices, TBD

Culture Embracing 21st Century Skills

Shifts in teaching and learning to model 21st

century skills
Teachers and students

work collaboratively use critical thinking and problem-solving skills effectively communicate around common goals think creatively and innovatively

Culture of Collaboration
Teachers Work in collaborative groups (Professional Learning Communities)

Planning Implementation Reflection

Students Work in collaborative groups

Problem-solve Viable arguments Explanations

Moving Forward
California decisions still to be made: Algebra I or 8th grade mathematics course Assessment of other content areas

Teaching and Learning Framework

Standard 1 Planning and Preparation

Standard 3 Instruction

Modules
Four School Modules Awareness Orientation Structure Formative Assessment Components of the Modules Facilitators Guide Handouts Facilitated PP

Next Steps
Teachers Hour February 23, 2012-Awareness https://sites.google.com/site/teachershour/home March 22, 2012-ELA Shifts

Independent Learning engageny.org http://engageny.org/common-core/ Hunt Institute

http://sites.google.com/site/commoncoreinvermont/home/huntinstitute-video
Achieve the Core http://www.achievethecore.org/

Questions