CSULA
CCSSM-STEM
Conference
Angelo Segalla
March 14, 2014
The Growing Pushback to Common
Core
Hard Core Professional Development
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CCSSM, Déjà Vu all over again . . . ?
As with the New Math …?
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… Just saying…
Communist Core is NOT about Education...
it is about CONTROL.
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http://video.foxnews.com/v/3217486811001/growing-pushback-against-common-corecurriculum/#sp=show-clips
What to do?
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No PD, No CC
• Professional Development that
o leads to PUFM (Liping Ma)
• Professional Development
o concentrates on content—on the math
o content  pedagogy
• Professional Development that
o trains teachers to leave FOIL and PEMDAS behind
• Professional Development that
o trains teachers not to start with pizzas to illustrate fractions
o trains teachers not to use the LCD in the definition of addition of fractions
o trains teachers to encourage kids to add fractions the way we add whole
numbers on the number line
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Professional Development that
o trains teachers to motivate “slope” with similar triangles
• Professional Development that
o trains teachers not make manipulatives the centerpiece of multiplication
of binomials
“People Magazine” Textbooks
• Lots of pictures . . . lots of color .
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• Does this distract or enhance
learning?
• This has not changed with the
new California textbooks
adopted
• I know, I was there Summer
2013
• Do the new adoptions align with
CCSSM? No!
• Professor H.S. Wu calls this a de
facto national curriculum TSM
(Textbook School Mathematics).
o See H. Wu, Bringing the Common Core State
implementation
• Strong PD programs for
implementation include
well written textbooks
and instructional
materials
• (My experience) many
(most?) 2013 CA
adopted mathematics
textbooks and materials
for grades 6-8 are not
CCSSM aligned
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Remember . . .
The Elephant in the Room
Math
English
Science
Social Scine
Year
CSET*
Program
Total
% Exam
98/99
2
21
23
9%
2:21
0:1
0:1
10:21
99/00
1
10
11
9%
1:10
0:1
0:1
4:11
00/01
2
13
15
13%
2:13
0:1
0:1
1:5
01/02
1
16
17
6%
1:16
0:1
3:19
13:35
02/03
2
14
16
13%
1:7
1:5
9:16
17:31
03/04
12
24
36
33%
1:2
8:23
25:24
37:42
04/05
27
26
53
51%
27:26
26:71
32:17
29:43
05/06
27
28
55
49%
27:28
43:64
13:3
44:43
06/07
17
37
54
31%
17:37
21:20
4:1
36:47
07/08
32
17
49
65%
32:17
16:23
19:6
12:29
08/09
32
22
54
59%
16:11
31:47
5:3
28:37
09/10
22
18
40
55%
11:9
27:29
24:7
27:32
10/11
41
25
66
62%
41:25
29:40
19:12
5:3
11/12
23
16
39
59%
23:16
16:33
21:8
29:22
12/13
29
17
46
63%
29:17
11:14
10:1
2:3
Total
270
304
574
47%
135:152
153:365
261:167
183:260
*Praxis before 2000?
CSET/PRG
A word from Professor MacCallum
Main challenge … ensuring teachers
are ready to handle a tougher set of
requirements for their students.
[Teachers] are going to be called on to
have a deeper understanding of what
the math is all about…
For many states, these are simply
higher standards than they had
before. That in itself is a hard thing.