Florida’s Adoption of State Standards
Background
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Standards History in Florida
Year
Standards
1977
Minimum student performance skills defined
1985
State Board of Education approval of curriculum frameworks (now
defined as course descriptions) and student performance
standards remained in place until 1995
1995
New minimum performance standards
1996
Florida Sunshine State Standards developed in all content areas
2007 2012
Florida Next Generation Sunshine State Standards developed in all
content areas
2010
2010 Florida Next Generation Sunshine State Standards
(Common Core) in ELA and Mathematics
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Requirements Specified in State Law
• State Board of Education - establish the
standards that specify the core content,
knowledge and skills that K-12 public school
students are expected of acquire
• Each district school board - provide all the
courses and appropriate instruction designed
to ensure that students meet State Board of
Education adopted standards
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Standards are not Curriculum
The standards describe “the what” that
students need to learn; however, they do not
spell out “the how” for teachers.
Curriculum and instruction define “the how.”
“The how” is determined at the local levels; the
district, the school and the classroom.
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Why standards?
• Standards ensure all student have access to
quality content at each grade level and in each
content area.
“The standards "movement" grew out of
frustration in the late 1990s with a
fragmented public school system with many
levels of bureaucracy — local, state, national
— in which expectations for students varied
widely and too few poor and minority students
were achieving.”
Greatschools.org
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Why change our standards?
• Research on the state of standards in the US was
presented in 2008; this research indicated:
– Countries are out performing our students on
international assessments (even our best and
brightest)
– Top performing countries have higher standards and
fewer standards per grade level
– Economists report that stronger foundational skills in
math and reading are required
– High school graduates require remediation to enter
college courses
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Florida’s Response
• Implementation of a “Next Generation” internationally
benchmarked standards development process (Section
1003.41, F.S. 2008) that includes:
– Research
• Other states’ and nations’ standards considered exceptionally
rigorous
– Process guided by “renowned” content experts
– Writers that include:
• Postsecondary experts
• Experts in the field
• Educators
– Review and comment by:
• Educators at all levels
• Leaders in business and industry
• The public
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Florida Results
• Highly rated “Next Generation Sunshine State
Standards”
• Fewer concepts per grade level providing for
more in-depth instruction
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David Coleman
Regarding countries that out-perform us,
“….they work harder and longer than we do;
they work on everything and our kids may be a
little bit more creative, but there’s no way
they’ll ever do this much hard work so we
might as well fold our tents up now….actually
they focus on fewer things done well.”
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Results: World Class Mathematics
Standards – K-8 Narrower and Deeper
Grade Level
Sunshine State
Next Generation
Common Core
Kindergarten
67
11
22
First
78
14
21
Second
84
21
26
Third
88
17
25
Fourth
89
21
28
Fifth
77
23
26
Sixth
78
19
29
Seventh
89
22
24
Eighth
93
19
28
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Why the decision was made to include the
Common Core in our Next Generation
Standards
• Benefits to Florida students
– Children of the military (94,000 ages 0 to 18)
– Equitable access to high quality content
– Standards that demand a higher level of critical thinking and problem solving
(defending solutions, providing evidence of responses)
– Nationally and internationally competitive academic performance
– Recognition of student achievement by postsecondary institutions and
employers across state boundaries
• Benefits to Florida
– Economies of scale
• Education resources
• Assessments
• Instructional materials
– National and international comparisons of student performance
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Common Core K -12 State Standards
Requirements
1) Aligned with college and work expectations;
2) Clear, understandable and consistent;
3) Include rigorous content and application of
knowledge through high-order skills;
4) Build upon strengths and lessons of current state
standards;
5) Informed by other top performing countries, so
that all students are prepared to succeed in our
global economy; and
6) Evidence- and research-based.
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Resources Used in the Development of
Mathematics and English Language Arts
Common Core K-12 State Standards
• Nationally Respected State Standards
– Florida standards as well as other highly rated states
• Internationally Respected National Standards
• State Departments of Education
– Florida a lead state
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Scholars
Assessment Developers
Professional Organizations
Educators PreK-20 (including Florida)
Parents
Students
The Public
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Common Core State Standards Initiative
Standards-Setting Criteria
The following criteria guided the standards
development workgroups in setting the draft collegeand career-readiness standards.
Preamble: The Common Core State Standards define
the rigorous skills and knowledge in English Language
Arts and Mathematics that need to be effectively
taught and learned for students to be ready to
succeed academically in credit-bearing, college-entry
courses and in workforce training programs.
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Florida’s Participation in Common Core State
Standards Development
• Florida’s Next Generation process of standards development was provided
and guided the process
• Leadership by Florida educators; content experts, writers and reviewers
• Florida standards were cited as a resource for writers
• Florida staff met face-to-face with both teams of writers prior to first draft
of K-12 standards
• Preliminary and final drafts reviewed by staff and key stakeholders
• Bi-weekly conference calls with Florida districts, agenda item on
Superintendent conference calls, and meetings
• Conference calls with state team and writing teams
• Postsecondary review meeting
• Meeting with Florida PTA leadership
• Public review site sent to all district curriculum leads, communicated to
school districts, and placed on the FLDOE web site
• Public review period – 433 Florida individuals provided feedback
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Fordham’s Rating
Content Area
Standards
Rating
Mathematics
Next Generation
A
Mathematics
Common Core
A-
English Language Arts
Next Generation
B
English Language Arts
Common Core
B+
Math
• Next Generation – clear and concise
• Common Core – require modeling with greater focus
on conceptual understanding, proof of solutions
ELA
• Common Core – require more writing and providing
evidence to support responses
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What Common Core State Standards Are
• What are the content areas?
– English language arts
– Mathematics
• What are the grade levels?
– Kindergarten through 12th grade
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Emphasis in Addition to Content
English Language Arts
Students who are College and Career
English language arts:
Ready in English language arts:
• Reading
• Demonstrate independence
• Writing
• Build strong content knowledge
• Speaking
• Respond to the varying demands of
• Listening
the audience, task, purpose and
• Language
discipline
• Comprehend as well as critique
• Value evidence
• Use technology and digital media
strategically and capably
• Understand other perspectives and
cultures
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Emphasis in Addition to Content
Mathematics
Mathematics:
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Number and Quantity
Algebra
Functions
Modeling
Geometry
Statistics and Probability
Students who are College and
Career Ready in Mathematics
• Make sense of problems and
persevere in solving them
• Reason abstractly and
quantitatively
• Construct viable arguments and
critique the reasoning of others
• Model with mathematics
• Use appropriate tools
strategically
• Attend to precision
• Look for and make use of
structure
• Look for and express regularity in
repeated reasoning
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So, what do the CCSS really look like?
Third Grade Writing Standard
Next Generation
The student effectively applies listening and speaking strategies
Common Core
Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker,
offering appropriate elaboration and detail.
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So, what do the CCSS really look like?
Sixth Grade Mathematics Standard
Next Generation
Use and justify the rules for adding, subtracting, multiplying,
dividing and finding the absolute value of integers.
Common Core
Distinguish comparisons of absolute value from statements
about order. For example, recognize that an account balance
less than - $30 represents a debt greater than $30.
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Technology
More emphasis on use of
technology to communicate and
solve problems.
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Shifting to Common Core State
Standards - Technology
English Language Arts Content and Instruction
• Starting in kindergarten: “With guidance and support from adults, explore a
variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing including in
collaboration with peers,”
• Beginning in grade 3: “…using search tools…,”; “gather information from print
and digital sources….provide a list of sources,”
• Beginning in grade 6: “…viewing an audio, video, or live version of the text…,”;
“Integrate information presented in different media or formats..,”
• Grades 9-12: “use technology, including the internet, to produce, publish, and
update individual or share writing projects….,”
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Example: Writing
Grades 3 – 12
• Write routinely over extended time frames (time for
research, reflections and revision) and shorter time
frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of
discipline-specific tasks, purposes and audiences.
• Using technology
– Grade 4….type a minimum of one page in a single sitting
– Grade 5….type a minimum of two pages in a single sitting
– Grade 6….type a minimum of three pages in a single sitting
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Shifting to Common Core State Standards Technology
Mathematics Content and Instruction
• Calculators, spreadsheets, computer algebra
systems, statistical packages or dynamic
geometry software are all named as appropriate
tools.
• Grade six is the first grade level that includes
standards most appropriately taught with a
technological tool: geometry software and
spreadsheets.
• After grade six, all the above-mentioned tools
should be used in mathematics classrooms.
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Florida’s Adoption and
Implementation Timeline
Year
2008
Next Generation Standards process
2009-2010
Participation as a Lead State in the Development
2010
Florida Review of Final Draft
2010
Standards Presented to the State Board of Education, June
2010
Standards Adopted by the State Board of Education, July
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Florida’s Common Core Mathematics and English Language
Arts Standards Implementation Timeline
Year/Grade Level
1
2011-2012
K
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3-8
9-12
2012-2013
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2013-2014
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K-5 Instructional
Materials
2014-2015
6-12 Instructional
Materials
 full implementation of CCSS for all content areas
 B - blended instruction of CCSS with Next Generation Sunshine State
Standards (NGSSS); last year of NGSSS assessed on FCAT 2.0
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State Standards:
Continuing to raise the bar on education
standards, by including an emphasis on
critical and analytical thinking, to drive
continued improvement by Florida
students
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