November 12, 2013
General PTA Meeting
Common Core
State Standards
(CCSS)
Overview
Timeline of Standardized Testing
CA adopts
CA Content
Standards
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California Standardized Testing
1961: Required instructional standards throughout the state; mandated
statewide examinations.
1962-1971: State-approved list of published tests.
1972: California Assessment Program (CAP).
1993: California Learning Assessment Systems (CLAS).
1997: Standardized Testing and Reporting Program (STAR).
1999: California Standards Tests (CSTs).
1999: ELA and math (augmented items from Stanford Achievement TestSAT/9).
2001: History-social science and science (grades 9-11).
2004: Science (grade 5).
2006: Science (grades 8 and 10).
2001: California English Language Development Test (CELDT).
2003: California Alternate Performance Assessment (CAPA).
2004: Standard-based Test in Spanish (STS).
2006: California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE).
2008: California Modified Assessment (CMA).
History of CCSS
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National State Governors Association
Council of Chief State School Officers
– Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public
Instruction
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Work groups and feedback groups composed of
representatives from higher education, K–12
education, business community, researchers, civil
rights groups, and the states.
– Ensure students have a seamless transition from high school to
college.
– Builds on the standards-based process.
Overarching Goals for
K-12 CCSS
• Ensure that our students are:
– Meeting college and work expectations.
– Prepared to succeed in our global economy and society.
– Provided a vision of what it means to be
an academically literate person in the
twenty-first century.
– Provided with rigorous content and applications of
higher knowledge through higher-order thinking skills.
• Provide a consistent, clear understanding of what
students are expected to learn.
– Enables teachers and parents to know what to do to
help.
Which States Have
Adopted?
http://www.corestandards.org/in-the-states
California Adoption
• "The California Common Core State
Standards (CCSS) were adopted by the
California State Board of Education on August
2, 2010, following rigorous review and
augmentation by the California Academic
Content Standards Commission." (O'Connell,
2010).
What Do Employers Want?
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Problem-Solving Skills
Quick Learners
Ability to Analyze/Interpret Data
Oral Communication Skills
Motivation
Self-Starter
Written Communication Skills
Job-Specific Computer Skills
Teamwork Attitude
Innovative Thinking
What skills will your
children need to know to be
successful in the 21st
century workforce?
Mean Earnings by Level of Highest Degree
(DOLLARS) 2010 CENSUS
$100,000
$90,000
$80,000
$70,000
$60,000
$50,000
$40,000
$30,000
$20,000
$10,000
$0
Mean Earnings
Not a High
School Grad
High School
Grad Only
Some College,
No Degree
Associate's
Degree
Bachelor's
Degree
Master's Degree
Doctorate
Degree
$21,023
$31,283
$32,555
$39,506
$58,613
$70,856
$99,697
What’s Different?
“These Standards are not intended to be new
names for old ways of doing business. They
are a call to take the next step. It is time
for states to work together to build on
lessons learned from two decades of
standards based reforms. It is time to
recognize that standards are not just
promises to our children, but promises we
intend to keep.” (CCSS, 2010, p.5)
http://www.corestandards.org/assets/CCSSI_Math%20Standards.pdf
What Does English Language
Arts and Literacy Focus On?
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Rigor
Application of learning to realworld situations
Technology and media sources
Justification and evidence
Communication/collaboration
Expository reading and writing
Research
What Does Mathematics
Focus On?
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Conceptual understanding
Number sense in elementary
Multiple solutions
Justifying answer
Explaining your thinking
Success in algebra and higher-level
mathematics
• Application to real world situations
NOT one right answer!
Assessment
• Assessments will begin in 2014-15.
• California is a governing state in the
SMARTER Balanced Assessment
Consortium.
• Assessments will include the following:
– Computer Adaptive Assessments
(Interim and Summative)
– Performance Assessments (Interim and
Summative)
• Selected Response
• Constructed Response
• Extended Performance Assessments
– Retake Option (Summative)
CST Released Test Questions
Grade 4 - ELA
Grade 9 - ELA
SBAC Selected Response (SR)
SBAC Constructed Response
(CR)
Key Data Systems
SBAC Technology Enhanced
(TE)
Key Data Systems
SBAC Performance Task(PT)
Selected Response (SR) Items
Non-Traditional (SR)
How can families
support their children
in the transition to the
Common Core State
Standards (CCSS)?
Six Key Shifts in Literacy in Common Core
Informational text.
Do you encourage your child to read as
much nonfiction as fiction? Do you
discuss ideas in nonfiction texts?
Close reading of
complex texts.
Do you read challenging texts with your
children and help them see the value of
the information?
Text-based answers
and evidence.
Do you ask your children to show
evidence from the text when answering
questions?
Writing from sources
with evidence.
Do you encourage your child to write
using evidence and details from multiple
texts?
Academic vocabulary. Do you talk to your children using
academic language?
Digital literacy.
Do your children use technology and
media as a learning tool?
“There are many dispositions that we
want children to acquire and
strengthen--- to be curious, creative,
cooperative, friendly, helpful, and hard
working. These dispositions, however,
cannot be learned from instruction.
Dispositions are probably learned
primarily from being around people
who have them and who exhibit
them.”
Lillian Katz, Professor
Early Childhood Education
University of Illinois
Six Key Shifts in Mathematics in Common Core
Focus
What is the priority work for your child at his/her grade
level?
Coherence
What did your child struggle with last year and how it
will affect learning now?
Fluency
Has your child memorized the basic facts? Does your
child spend time practicing lots of problems on same
idea?
Deep Understanding
Does your child really KNOW why the answer is what
it is?
Application
Dual Intensity
Do you encourage your child to DO the math that
comes up in daily life?
Does your child practice the math facts he/she
struggles with? Does your child think about math in
real life?