September 2010
Commonly Asked Questions:
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What does it mean to ad0pt the Common Core
Standards?
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How will the Common Core Standards connect to
curriculum, instruction, and assessment?
DPI Guidance Document for Common Core State Standards Initiative
http://www.dpi.wi.gov/cal/pdf/commoncorestds-qa.pdf
DPI
CESAs
Business
Professional
Organizations
ECB
Administrator Groups
Multistate
Content Groups
Partnerships
IHEs
LEAs
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Communication
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Professional learning
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Resource development
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Curriculum development
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Formative and benchmark assessments
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Additional resources
Students:
 Demonstrate independence
 Build strong content knowledge
 Respond to the varying demands of audience, task,
purpose, and discipline
 Comprehend as well as critique
 Value evidence
 Use technology and digital media strategically and
capably
 Come to understand other perspectives and cultures
Standards for Mathematical Practice:
 Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
 Reason abstractly and quantitatively
 Construct viable arguments and critique 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
Common Core Standards for English Language Arts
and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and
Technical Subjects
 College and Career Readiness (CCR) Anchor
Standards for each strand:
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Reading
Writing
Speaking and Listening
Language
▪ Overarching targets (parallel for each grade band)
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Reading: Text complexity and growth of
comprehension
 Grades K-5: Literature and Informational Text
 Grades K-5: Reading Standards – Foundational Skills
 Grades 6-12: Literature and Informational Text
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Writing: Text types, responding to reading, and
research
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Speaking and Listening: Flexible communication and
collaboration
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Language: Conventions and vocabulary
Common Core Standards for English Language Arts
and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and
Technical Subjects
 Grades 6-12: Standards for Literacy in
History/Social Studies, Science, & Technical Subjects
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Based on CCR Anchor Standards for Reading
Based on CCR Anchor Standards for Writing
Presented as grade bands: 6-8, 9-10, 11-12
Technical subjects: defined as engineering, technology,
business, design, and other workforce-related subjects;
technical aspects of wider fields of study such as art and
music
 Standards for Mathematical Practice
 Standards for Mathematical Content
▪ K-8 grade level standards
 Algebraic thinking standards indicated in K-5
 Grade level overviews: K-8
▪ Mathematical Standards for High School
 Conceptual categories
 Additional standards for preparation for advanced
courses
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Grades K-5
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Numbers and Operations
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Measurement and Data
Geometry
Grades 6-8
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Number System
Ratios and Proportional Relationships [Gr. 8 – Functions]
Expressions and Equations
Geometry
Statistics and Probability
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High School
 Numbers and Quantity
 Algebra
 Functions
 Modeling
 Geometry
 Statistics and Probability
Tools to lead the conversation around implementation
 Set of common beliefs
 CESAs’ Foundations Kit
 Framework(s) for curriculum, assessments, instruction
 Examples from pilot sites (“early implementers”)
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Fall 2010: Administration of WKCE
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2010-2015 (Projected): Development of SMARTER
Balanced Assessment Consortium’s formative
resources, and benchmark and summative items
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2013-2014 (Projected): Piloting and field testing of
the summative assessment
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2014-2015: New summative assessment system is
projected to be in place
Websites:
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WI DPI:
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Common Core State Standards Initiative:
http://www.dpi.wi.gov/standards
http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards /
Emilie Amundson, English Language Arts
emilie.amundson@dpi.wi.gov
Jacque Karbon, Reading
jacque.karbon@dpi.wi.gov
Diana Kasbaum, Mathematics
diana.kasbaum@dpi.wi.gov
Shelley Lee, Science
shelley.lee@dpi.wi.gov
Kristen McDaniel, Social Studies
kristen.mcdaniel@dpi.wi.gov
Paul Sandrock, Content and Learning Team
s.paul.sandrock@dpi.wi.gov