Common Core State Standards
On the road to the Common Core
Pam Daniels
Western NC Rep
704-905-1364
Marlyn Smith
Eastern NC/SC Rep
919-859-2605
New standards will bring major changes
Reading/ELA
standards
emphasize:
• Close, evidence-based
analysis of more complex
texts
• Knowledge of academic and
domain-specific vocabulary
• Authentic text, especially
informational selections such
as historical documents and
science articles
• Higher-order thinking skills
that require students to make
comparisons across mixed
media
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Mathematics
standards focus
on:
• Higher-order
conceptual
understanding versus
procedural
understanding
• Depth over breadth of
content understanding
• Non-routine, real-world
problems with an
emphasis on word
problems
• Connections between
related topics to build
deeper understanding
New assessments
will require that
students:
• Build comfort with
online computerbased assessment
format
• Demonstrate deeper
conceptual
understanding
What is the i-Ready CCSS
• In approximately one hour per subject, you can administer an online
test that will give you a snapshot of how prepared your students are
for the Common Core State Standards.
• Data driven-decision making so you can prepare for the transition:
– Identify the standards with which your students are most likely to
struggle
– Inform curriculum and professional development planning based
on gaps
– Receive instructional recommendations
• Reports provides real data to inform decisions
i-Ready CCSS Screener
What is assessed?
Reading
Mathematics
Grades Standards
3–5
Reading
for
✔ Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Literature
Grades
6–8Standards for
Reading
✔ Informational
Ratios & Proportional
Relationships (6&7)
Text
Number
andand
Operations
– Base Ten
✔✔Key
Ideas
Details
✔ ✔
Functions
(8)
Key Ideas
✔ Number and Operations – Fractions
✔ Craft and Detail
✔ Measurement and Data
✔ Integration of Knowledge
✔ Geometry
and Details
✔ The Number System
✔ Craft and Detail
✔ Expressions and Equations
✔ Integration of Knowledge
✔ Geometry
✔ Statistics and Probability
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Powerful data drives a solid action plan
Performance Overview:
School Level
(Math example)
Know where to spend curriculum
dollars to address needs in a
specific grade or class
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Plan curriculum and target instruction
Performance Detail:
District Level
(Math example)
View specific strands and
sub-strands that an entire grade
struggled with for each CCSS
Detailed reports available at
school, grade, & student level.
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Plan curriculum and professional development
Performance Detail:
District Level
(Math example)
Identify the performance level on
each standard and sub-standard.
Also, view the actual items used
to assess each standard.
Detailed reports available at
school, grade, & student level.
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Address the gaps with instructional recommendations
Instructional
Recommendations: Grade 3
(Reading example)
Drill down into each standard to
see how to best teach the
underlying skills and concepts
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Supported by a strong research base
• Draws from latest models published by PARCC
and SBAC, the two consortia that are developing the
CCSS
• Includes actual texts recommended by lead
developers of the Common Core to meet new text
complexity requirements
• Item complexity is based on sample items from
states considered to have high text complexity
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Informed by expert panel of advisors
Kari Ross
A licensed Reading
Specialist and an
active participant on
CCSS Development
Work Team for English
Language Arts
Standards
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Mark Thames
Assistant Research
Scientist at University
of Michigan School of
Education and an
active participant on
CCSS Development
Work Team for
Mathematics
Standards
Roger Farr
Chancellor’s Professor
at Indiana University
and President of the
Educational Research
Institute of America
Richard Bisk
Professor and Chair of
the Mathematics
Department at
Worcester State
College and Co-Chair
of the Massachusetts
DOE Math and
Science Advisory
Council
The road to the Common Core starts here
✔ Identify gaps in curriculum
✔ Determine what professional
development is needed
✔ Plan instructional programs
to address gaps
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