Finding Common
Ground with
Common Core
Janice D. Mertes
Department of Public Instruction
Common Core State Standard Team
Digital Learning Specialist
janice.mertes@dpi.wi.gov
@WisDPITech
@WisDPICCSS
Nancy Anderson
Department of Public Instruction
Library Consultant
nancy.anderson@dpi.wi.gov
April 8, 2013
Today’s Meet Backchannel
http://todaysmeet.com/ccss
Share your thoughts with our group:
1) How are implementation strategies in your district
integrating technology into common core state
standards?
2) What materials or resources are you using?
3) What materials or resources do you need from DPI to
help in this exciting time of instructional
transformation?
Today’s Agenda
Understand how CCSS are
transforming classrooms in
the digital age and
statewide initiatives
Understand how librarians,
classroom teachers and
technology integrators fit in
this transformation
Wisconsin State Superintendent Tony Evers:
Agenda 2017
• Standards & Instruction
– What and how should kids learn?
– Innovation Learning
– How are digital technologies
integrated into learning?
• Assessments and Data Systems
– How do we know if they learned
it?
• School and Educator Effectiveness
– How do we ensure that students
have highly effective teachers
and schools?
• School Finance Reform
4 – How should we pay for schools?
Wisconsin State Superintendent Tony Evers:
Agenda 2017
By 2017, we need to reach target goals
that prepare our students for success
in further education and career:
 Further increase graduation rate from
85.7 percent to 92 percent.
 Increase career and college readiness
from
32 percent to 67 percent.
 Close graduation and career and
college readiness gaps by 50 percent.
 Increase the percentage of students
scoring proficient in third-grade
reading and
eighth-grade mathematics.
 Adopt the Fair Funding for Our Future
plan to make school finance more
equitable and transparent
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State Superintendent's Digital
Learning Advisory Council (DLAC)
• Develop a comprehensive strategy for digital
learning in Wisconsin
• Provide recommendations to the State
Superintendent on initiatives that promote and
advance digital learning.
• Use technology to enhance and improve student
learning
• Create opportunities for personalized learning
• Create news ways of teaching and opportunities to
leverage technology
• Align learning resources and teaching opportunities
to meet academic standards so every child is career
and college ready
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Common Core State Standards
Implementation Team (CCSSI)
All Wisconsin students need relevant and rigorous literacy
and mathematics instruction to ensure academic proficiency
and success beyond graduation. Technology and information
fluency are essential skills to be productive members of a
global society.
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Common Core National Adoption
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WI CCSS and SBAC Timeline
Wisconsin becomes the
first state to adopt the
CCSS
2010-11
2011-12
•SMARTER Balanced
assessment field testing
All districts on
Stateside Student
Information
System (SSIS)
•Educator Effectiveness
statewide system pilot
2012-13
DPI provides curricular
resources for CCSS
implementation;
establishes the CCSSI
Team
2013-14
2014-15
2015-16
•CCSS fully incorporated
into school/district curricula
•SMARTER Balanced
assessment replaces
existing statewide
assessment
2016-17
Higher
graduation
requirements
(needs
legislation)
•Educator Effectiveness
system implemented
statewide
04/07/13
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Common Core = Common Ground
 Common Core provide a consistent, clear
understanding of what students are expected to
learn, so teachers and parents know what they
need to do to help them.
• Common Core State Standards are designed to
be robust and relevant to the real world,
reflecting the knowledge and skills that our
young people need for success in college and
careers.
• Common Core allows for professional
collaboration, shared resources and personal
learning networks.
• Common Core promotes digitally rich learning
experiences, resources and opportunities to
learn beyond classroom walls.
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Common Core = Common Ground
• Chunking
• Working smarter leveraging collaboration
• Leverage shared resources
• Support instructional planning process
• Create your own digital toolbox to align with
outcomes
• Build a structure for team planning and
collaboration
• Crosswalks of standards
• Information literacy, inquiry, crosswalk of
reading/writing/speaking
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High-quality instruction is the foundation of WI
Common Core adoption and key for educator
effectiveness
Standards and
Curriculum
•Standards-based
•Aligned to instruction &
assessment
•Differentiated
•Mapped
•Connected
•Authentic
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Instruction
•Scaffolded
•Research-based
•Culturally responsive
•Differentiated
•Technology infused
•Student centered
•Reflective
Assessment
•Observable
•Informative
•Authentic
•Balanced
•Clearly articulated
•Differentiated
Connected Work to Instruction
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WI Characteristics of Mathematically
Proficient Students
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WI Portrait of a Literate Student
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ELA Areas
Reading
•Broad definition of text
•Text types: Literature and Informational
•Balance of text
•Text complexity
•Types: explanatory, argumentative, and
Writing narrative
•Includes research and inquiry at all grades
Speaking •Presentation of knowledge and ideas
and
Listening
•Knowledge of language
Language
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ELA by Grade
Kindergarten
Grade Grade Grade Grade Grade Grade Grade Grade
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
High School
Reading Literature
Reading Informational Text
Reading Foundational
Skills
Writing
Speaking and Listening
Language
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ELA Major Concept: Text
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Texts by Grade Level
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ELA Text Complexity Model
•Levels of meaning
•Structure
•Language
conventionality and
clarity
•Knowledge demands
•Best determined by
a human reader
•Word frequency
•Sentence length
•Text cohesion
•Best determined by
computer software,
such as Lexile.
•Motivation
•Knowledge/experiences
•Purpose
•Task complexity
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Other ELA Areas
Reading
•Broad definition of text
•Text types: Literature and Informational
•Balance of text
•Text complexity
•Types: explanatory, argumentative, and
Writing narrative
•Includes research and inquiry at all grades
Speaking •Presentation of knowledge and ideas
and
Listening
•Knowledge of language
Language
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Informative / Explanatory
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Informative / Explanatory
Academic Writing
•Literary analyses
•Scientific reports
•Historical reports
•Summaries
Workshop and
Functional Writing
•Manuals
•Memos
•Reports
•Applications
•Résumés
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Narrative
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Narrative
ELA
History /
Social
Studies
•Creative
fictional stories
•Memoirs
•Anecdotes
•Autobiographie
s
•Accounts about
individuals
•Construct event
•models of what
happened
•Supporting
writing with only
the most
relevant source
information
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Science
•Narrative
descriptions of
step-by-step
investigation
procedures so
others can
replicate
procedures
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ELA Areas
Reading
•Broad definition of text
•Text types: Literature and Informational
•Balance of text
•Text complexity
•Types: explanatory, argumentative, and
Writing narrative
•Includes research and inquiry at all grades
Speaking •Presentation of knowledge and ideas
and
Listening
•Knowledge of language
Language
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Presentation of Knowledge
and Ideas
• Present information, findings, and supporting
evidence such that listeners can follow the line of
reasoning and the organization, development, and
style are appropriate to the task, purpose, and
audience
• Make strategic use of digital media and visual
displays of data to express information and
enhance understanding of presentations
• Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and
communicative tasks, demonstrating command of
formal English when indicated or appropriate
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ELA Areas
Reading
•Broad definition of text
•Text types: Literature and Informational
•Balance of text
•Text complexity
•Types: explanatory, argumentative, and
Writing narrative
•Includes research and inquiry at all grades
Speaking •Presentation of knowledge and ideas
and
Listening
•Knowledge of language
Language
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General Recommendations for
Finding Common Ground
• Show awareness
• Use shared vocabulary
• Establish a connection
• Take stock
• Be proactive
• School wide collaboration for rigor and relevance
of curriculum
• Technology fluency empowering students in
digitally rich learning experiences
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Disciplinary Literacy
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Reading and writing across all subject areas
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Common expectations: close reading,
informational text, research
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DPI Disciplinary Literacy Suitcase listed in
resources
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Promote balanced reading approach
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Opportunities for digital literacy
Learning is the Goal…
Technology is the supplement to the
“how” of learning to improve
student outcomes
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“Unless technology is woven throughout
these standards, the credibility of any claim
that they will better prepare students in the
21st century is diminished.”
NCTM Public Comments on the Common
Core Standards for Mathematics - nctm.org
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The Transformed Role of Educators
• Facilitators for learning that empower students through
inquiry
• Share responsibility for developing literacy in speaking,
writing, reading and listening
• Real world applications integrated into higher order
thinking and learning
• Personalized support for students
• All educators are teachers of technology
• Model digital citizenship and literacy for their students
• Collaborators with resource teachers and library media
specialists
• Connected educators and personal learning networks
to extend professional learning
• Understand focus is how tools support student
learning and promote engagement
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Elements of Wisconsin Career &
College Ready Students
• Learning & Innovation: 4C’s
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Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
Creativity and Innovation
Communications
Collaboration
• Digital Literacy
 Information & Media Literacy
 ICT Literacy
 Keyboarding skills
• Life and Career: Students are empowered and active
learners
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Flexibility & Adaptability
Initiative & Self-Direction
Social & Cross-Cultural Skills
Productivity & Accountability
Leadership & Responsibility
Know how to learn with inquiry process
The “How” of Achieving the Core
Students are curators, communicators
and creators of authentic learning..pick
the tools to achieve these goals
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Technology Fluency
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Build your digital toolbox experimenting with tools
that can enhance learning and teaching
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Move to virtual environments to extend learning,
promote communication and collaboration of
students
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Improve engagement of students through digital
tools
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Information literacy and digital citizenship are
foundation blocks
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Learner centered classrooms and experiences
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Students are well versed in a variety of
technology tools, skills to select appropriate tools
and have understanding of media literacy
process
Common Core = Common Ground
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WISELearn
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Tagging projects

OER movement
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Wisconsin Connected Educators
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Big Three: CCSS, SBAC, EE
WISElearn Digital Portal
• WI State budget for creation of WISELearn portal that will include
options for digital learning tools, Open Education Resources and
virtual learning courses
• WISELearn will assist with implementation of Common Core State
Standards (CCSS) and Smarter Balanced Assessment (SBAC) to
assist in making all educators effectives
• WISELearn will promote equitable opportunities of resources and
learning opportunities for all Wisconsin students
• Online and blended learning platform for ALL WI students
• Efficient tool for searching for quality content
• A platform for digital “textbooks”
• Professional learning communities, events calendar
• Crowdsourcing option where teachers rating quality of content, e.g.,
Yelp, Trip Advisor, etc.
• “Big data” for instructional feedback loops when combined with
algorithms
• Partnerships across WI education organizations
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WISElearn
Educator Resource Portal
Learning Management
System
Statewide
Student
Information
System
Academic &
Career Plans
Assessments
Local, state, national
Content Repository
Collaboration
Cloud
WISEdash
DATA
WAREHOUSE
WISEmaps,
SDPR,
MDAT, SAFE
Educator Licensing Online
Early Childhood
Postsecondary
WISElearn (Educator Resource Portal)
Portal – the “gateway” to the tools and functions
Learning
Management
System
Shared courses,
units and
lessons; by
Common Core
and more
Content
Repository
Customized PBS
LearningMediaSystem
Video, web sites,
documents, audio,
assessments, etc.
Curriculum Content Development
&
Collaboration
Cloud
Teacher - student,
teacher - teacher,
student - student,
teacher - parent
Technical Support
Emerging Digital Technology
Trends and Resources
“At the heart of the movement towards Open
Education Resources is the simple and powerful
idea that the world’s knowledge if a public good
and that technology in general, and the
Worldwide Web in particular, provide an
extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share,
use and re-use knowledge.”
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
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Note: quoted at Virtual School Symposium/NROC 2012
DPI Open Education
Resource Statewide Team
• DPI appointed OER team that will expand across content
areas and implement the goals of the Digital Learning
Advisory Council
• OER Team working with other states to identify rubrics for
OER evaluation and tagging system for effective search
of CCSS aligned resources
• CCSS Team will release in late spring CCSS Publisher
Criteria for ELA and Mathematics textbooks
• OER team will serve on WISELearn development team to
help identify content and system of integrating resources
into portal for equitable access by all WI students and
educators
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Definition of Open
Education Resources (OER)
• Any material that is useful for learning in public domain or
published under the Creative Commons Licensing free for
schools to adopt for equitable access and adaptability
• Encourages use in full, remixing or authoring of material
for adoption, improvement, personalized learning
opportunities
• Creates ability to evaluate and align resources to
standards and assessments
• Ability to have teachers collaboratively engage in
integrating and organizing OER resources, units, texts or
courses
• Redistribute and share with others
• Part of open education an d learning era that can enhance
access to and creation of personalized learning
opportunities
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Why OER in the Digital Era?
• Flexibility of learning materials
• Personalize learning content for students
• Open course ware learning opportunities
increasing rapidly for not entire educational
spectrum
• Collaboration on making, sharing and use
content
• Goal to create search mechanisms for
personalized content
• Aligned to DLAC goals of equitable and learning
opportunities to meet the needs of learners
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OER Content Selection:
Curricular Alignment Criteria
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Alignment to standards
Quality of explanation of subject matter
Utility of material to support teaching
Quality of assessment
Quality of technology interactivity
Quality of instructional and practices exercises
Opportunities for deeper learning
Assurance of accessibility
Credibility of provider
Alignment to personalized learning instructional goals
*OER Achieve
OER Creative Commons
• -Information on licensing your content as Creative
Commons
• -Resource portal that will include CCSS aligned materials
• -OER guide for schools
• http://creativecommons.org/education
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Open Education Resources
Listed in DLAC Plan
• OER Commons http://www.oercommons.org/
Connexions http://cnx.org/
Curriki http://www.curriki.org/
MIT Opencourseware http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
Open course Library http://opencourselibrary.wikispaces.com/
Utah State Opencourseware http://ocw.usu.edu/
Berkeley webcasts http://Webcast.berkeley.edu
Open Learning Initiative, Carnegie
Melon http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/
Flatworld Knowledge http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/
OpenCourseWare Consortium http://www.ocwconsortium.org/
Community College Consortium for Open Educational
Resources http://oerconsortium.org/
• Itunes U http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/
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Open Education Resources
Listed in DLAC Plan
• OER resources (from @opencontent, David Wiley)
http://eli2011.pathable.com/user_profiles/david-wiley
http://opencontent.org/blog/
http://www.slideshare.net/opencontent/educause-2010openness-data-and-a-sustainable-future-for-education
More:
http://onlineuniversityrankings.org/2009/the-worlds-50best-open-courseware-collections/
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K-12
http://www.openhighschool.org/
http://www.hippocampus.org/
http://www.ck12.org/flexbook/
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OER in WI Education
Next Steps
• WISELearn project funded for 2014-2015 budget year to
create digital portal to house open education resources
• CCSS and OER teams will continue to instructional
guides and resources to help districts consider open
education resource as an option to enhance learning
• Increased opportunity and access to virtual learning
opportunities via the Wisconsin Digital Learning
Collaborative
• Self-publishing and course creation exemplars projects
will be shared from around the state and nation to assist
distircts as needed
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DPI Digital Repository
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Agenda 2017
http://statesupt.dpi.wi.gov/
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Digital Learning Advisory Council (DLAC) State Tech Plan
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https://sites.google.com/a/dpi.wi.gov/wi_digital_learning_plan/
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Wisconsin Guiding Principles of Teaching and Learning
http://standards.dpi.wi.gov/stn_guiding-principles
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DPI CCSS Home Page and Team Contacts
http://standards.dpi.wi.gov/stn_ccss
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WI Digital Learning Day February 6, 2013
https://sites.google.com/a/dpi.wi.gov/wisconsin-digital-learning-day/home
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Wisconsin EETT Digital Learning Resources
https://sites.google.com/a/cesa12.org/eett-digital-resources/resources
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School Library Summit Vision Statement
https://docs.google.com/a/dpi.wi.gov/file/d/0B6vqnHqWoU2VU19kaU1xdEZGMXM/
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Disciplinary Literacy toolbox link
http://standards.dpi.wi.gov/stn_disciplinaryliteracy
Pinterest Digital toolbox
http://pinterest.com/InnovativeTech/
WI DPI Learning On Demand Common Core LiveBinders
http://www.livebinders.com/shelf/my?show=my_public&type=public
Library Resources
http://pld.dpi.wi.gov/pld_ys-sn#literacy
AASL Crosswalk and 21st Century Skills
http://www.ala.org/aasl/guidelinesandstandards/commoncorecrosswalk
Publisher criteria and OER rubrics for CCSS aligned to be released in late spring
Unit/lesson plan criteria for universal level of materials currently available
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=823390
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Questions and Discussion….
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Contact Information
Janice D. Mertes
Department of Public Instruction
Common Core State Standard Team
Digital Learning Ed Tech Consultant
janice.mertes@dpi.wi.gov
@WisDPITech
@WisDPICCSS
Nancy Anderson
Department of Public Instruction
Library Consultant
nancy.anderson@dpi.wi.gov
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