Common Core at CPS
External Partner Information Session
Feb. 15, 2012
Office of Professional Learning
 Office of Professional Learning to serve as liaison to connect
various stakeholders and provide united message and
support
 Partners should still be communicating across functions
‐ Curriculum Content Departments (Department of
Literacy, Math and Science Department)
‐ Office of Professional Learning
‐ Networks
‐ Schools
Five Pillars of Reinventing CPS
3
Best
Principals
and Best
Teachers
_______
Develop and
support
highly
effective
leaders and
educators
Best
Schools
Best
Curriculum
Engaged
Community
________
________
_______
Create
portfolio
plan to
ensure right
school for
every child
Aligned with
Common Core
to allow postsecondary
success for
every child
Increase access
for parents and
community
members
Networks Play a Critical Role in Supporting Each Pillar
Full School
Day and
Extended
School
Calendar
______
Every student
benefits from
added
instructional
time and
longer school
year
Why are we here?
“Every child has access to world class learning and will graduate
college and career ready.”
How will we collaborate to meet our
goals?
Central
Office
Network
ILT
Teacher Team
Classroom: Teachers
and Students
Common Core Standards (CCSS)
 Overview
•
The CCSS provide a clear roadmap of what students are expected to learn
from K-12 to prepare them for college and careers in the 21st century.
 Why now?
•
•
Illinois’ old standards lacked specificity and rigor. Students were held to
standards that wouldn’t fully prepare them for success beyond high school.
Common, rigorous standards provide an opportunity to bring coherence
and clarity to schools and classrooms across Chicago
 How will we get there?
•
•
Professional Development for educators across all levels of the system:
teachers, ILTs, Networks and Chiefs and Central Office staff.
Work with Early Adopters to build performance assessments and unit plans
that can serve as examples of actual implementation of the standards.
Implementation Timeline
2011-12
2012-13
2013-14
New Learning
New Learning:
New Learning
• ELA: Unpacking,
Performance
Assessment, Units for
comprehension, writing
• Math: Bridge standards
and curric (6-11 only)
• ELA: Language, Speaking,
Foundational Skills,
Content literacy (6-12)
• ELA: 11-12 curric. map
• Math: Bridge standards
and curric. (K-5, 11-12),
• Instructional Shifts
• Math full CC content
standards
• Instructional Shifts
Implementation
Implementation:
Implementation:
• Teacher team
structures
• ILT structures
• Comprehension and
Writing units
• Math Bridge
curriculum (6-10)
• Units with all ELA
strands K-12
• Math Bridge
curriculum in K-12
Implementation in SY12
Scope
Objectives
Early Adopters
•60 schools
•Focus on backward design process for the development,
implementation, and refinement of unit plans (unpacking
standards, performance assessment development, unit
development)
•Development of exemplars
Teacher Leader
PLC
(from Early
Adopter schools)
•~30 teachers
each for Literacy
and Math
•Develop the year-long CCSS-aligned curriculum map for
literacy
•Develop guiding principles in math for incorporation of math
practice standards
Network Team
PD
•All Networks
•Develop and refine a differentiated delivery mechanism (or
Network Theory of Action) for building capacity on the CCSS
with portfolio of schools
ILT PD
•All schools,
traditional and
charter/contract/
AUSL
•Focus on unit planning (unpacking standards, performance
assessment development, unit development)
•Implement necessary ILT and TT structures to make the shift
to CCSS possible
Guidelines and Goals
 Planning guidelines
• Emphasis on backwards planning for development of short and
long term plans
• Instructional materials are not curriculum: they support
curriculum. Curriculum is developed by planning from standards.

ELA goals
• Quarterly curriculum map developed by teachers
• Greater emphasis on non-fiction, argumentation through writing
and speaking
 Math goals
• Standards for Math Practices as guidelines for how students
approach math
• Coherence and focus in content: understanding of progressions
Implementation Expectations
Standards
 Backwards Planning
 Un-packing the standards
(the process and the product)
•
•
•
Increase teacher team collaboration and
communication
Deepen knowledge of the Common Core
State Standards through the reading and
unpacking process
Build a foundation for building an
assessment
 Performance Assessments
 Unit Plans
Assessment
Long – Term
Planning
Weekly and
Daily Lessons
Next Steps
 Plan to hold communication sessions quarterly to ensure
alignment and updates
 Please reach out to content departments for a deeper look
at the work they are doing with early adopters, ILTs and
Networks
Contacts
 Department of Literacy
• Elizabeth Cardenas-Lopez, Director
‐ ECardenas-lopez@cps.k12.il.us
‐ 773-553-6436
 Math and Science Department
• Jesch Reyes, Director
‐ JAReyes1@cps.k12.il.us
‐ 773-553-6239
 Office of Professional Learning
• Jill Gauthier
‐ JLGauthier@cps.k12.il.us
‐ 773-553-2159
Q&A
Thank You!!!