Common Core State Standards

Common Core State Standards Initiative: Overview of the Initiative

Training: Getting Started with Common Core: An Introduction to the Common Core State Standards Initiative for District Administrators, Principals and Teachers
Date: January 13 and 27, 2012

PowerPoint Presentations:

Overview of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts

Overview of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics

Common Core State Standards: Implications for English Learners

Focus of Assessment and SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium

Common Core State Standards: Implications for Teachers of History-Social Science, Science, and the Arts

Putting It All Together: Next Steps for Your School or District

English Language Arts Handouts:

Coding in Common Core for ELA

ELA Standards Comparison

Writing Spiral

Mathematics Handouts:

What is Career Ready?

The Standards for Mathematical Practice

Solving Linear Equations in Two Variables

Learning Trajectory - Traditional

Learning Trajectory - Integrated

English Language Learners Handouts:

ELD Proficiency Levels

Content Areas and VAPA Handouts:

Key Ideas and Details Spiral

What does it Mean for Content Teachers?

Implementation Tool Handouts:

Note-Taking Guide

District Actions to Address Common Core Standards and SMARTER Balanced

Mathematics, Art and the Common Core at LACMA

Training: California's Common Core State Standards: A Focus on Mathematics
Date: December 9, 2011

PowerPoint Presentations:

Common Core and the Number Line

Mathematical Modeling in K-12

Utilizing After School Programs to Connect the Dots

Handouts:

Navigating a 21st Century Digital World - Resources

Common Core Collaborative for District Leaders

Training: Common Core Collaborative for District Leaders
Date: November 4, 2011

PowerPoint Presentation:

Handouts:

District Actions to Address CCSS and SBAC

Selected E-Resources for the Common Core Collaborative

21st Century Learning and the Common Core - 10 Reasons Why 21st Century Learning Will Succeed - Bernie Trilling (Keynote)

Training: Common Core State Standards Fall Kickoff
Date: October 21, 2011

PowerPoint Presentations:

SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium - Kathryn Edwards, Ph.D.

Breakout Sessions

PowerPoint Presentations:

Increasing Text Complexity - Donna Van Allen

Mathematics Implications for High School - Diane Kinch

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Utilizing Technology: Connecting Technology to the Common Core Standards - Dotti Ysais

Literacy in the Content Areas for Content Teachers - Michelle Herczog

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Overview of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics - Tere Hirsch

Reading and Writing Informational Text - Donna Van Allen

Innovative Mathematical Practices for All Grade Levels - Diane Kinch

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Supporting English Learners - Magdalena Ruz-Gonzalez

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Supporting Special Education Students - Julie Elliott

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Overview of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts - Della Larimore

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Training: Taking a Closer Look at the Common Core Standards in English Language Arts
Date: March 28, 2011

Topic: Common Core Standards... Taking a Closer Look

PowerPoint Presentations:

Taking a Closer Look

Focusing on the Expectations of Technology in Common Core State Standards

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Templates:

Unpacking the Standards
http://commoncore.lacoe.edu/resources/training_032811/unpacking_standards.pdf

College and Career Readiness Activity: The Gist
http://commoncore.lacoe.edu/resources/training_032811/gist_activity.pdf

Note Taking Guide: GIST Big Picture
http://commoncore.lacoe.edu/resources/training_032811/gist_notes.pdf

Publication:

What Content-Area Teachers Should Know About Adolescent Literacy
http://lincs.ed.gov/publications/pdf/adolescent_literacy07.pdf
Developed by the National Institute for Literacy, this report summarizes some of the current literature on adolescent literacy research and practice. It suggests some methods of building adolescent reading and writing skills in the classroom.

Websites:

Grade Level Curriculum
http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cr/cf/grlevelcurriculum.asp
A Look at Kindergarten through Grade Five in California Public Schools is a compilation of subject -matter curriculum, including information about the Common Core State Standards, organized by individual grade levels.

Grade Level Curriculum Webinar Series
http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cc/glcwebinars.asp
The Webinar series is designed to provide an overview of the Grade Level Curriculum document with a focus on Common Core State Standards.

Topic: Digital Citizenship

The following articles are from Digital Citizenship

Articles:

Passport to Digital Citizenship
http://www.digitalcitizenship.net/uploads/LL2008DCArt.pdf
ISTE Publication, Learning and Leading with Technology Magazine, 2008-09, Vol. 36, No.4

Considerations for Digital Age Learners
http://www.digitalcitizenship.net/uploads/LLDecArticle.pdf
ISTE Publication, Learning and Leading with Technology Magazine, 2009-10, Vol. 37, No. 4

Raising a Digital Child
http://www.digitalcitizenship.net/uploads/09-0489_AWAY__26_DIGKIDS_.pdf
(A) Way Magazine, January 2010

Websites:

Digital Citizenship: Using Technology Appropriately
http://www.digitalcitizenship.net
Mike Ribble's Web site... Digital Citizenship is a concept which helps teachers, technology leaders and parents to understand what students/children/technology users should know to use technology appropriately.

Topic: Classroom Instruction and Technology

Articles:

Using the Technology of Today, in the Classroom Today
http://education.mit.edu/papers/GamesSimsSocNets_EdArcade.pdf
A framework for addressing challenges to classroom technology use. Association for the Ad- vancement of Computing in Education (AACE) Journal, 16(1), 21-46.

Conditions for Classroom Technology Innovations Executive Summary
http://caret.iste.org/dsp_printStudy.cfm?studyid=415
by Yong Zhao, Kevin Pugh, Steve Sheldon, Joe Byers
College of Education, Michigan State University (2001)

Websites:

Conditions for Classroom Technology Innovations
http://www.digitalcitizenship.net
This study identifies school site conditions that influence successful integration of technology with classroom instruction.

A Formal Evaluation Study by CARET is a project of the International Society for Technology in Education in collaboration with Education Support Systems and the Sacramento County Office of Education. CARET is funded with a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Cyber Summit on 21st Century Skills:
Kansas Technology Rich Classroom (TRC) Project
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu99aC8YK4Y&feature=player_embedded
This study identifies school site conditions that influence successful integration of technology with classroom instruction.

ALTEC, the umbrella organization for the 4teacher tools, manages the Technology Rich Classroom (TRC),Title II-D initiative in Kansas. Take a look at the powerful 21st Century learning taking place in these classrooms!

Topic: Classroom Instruction and Technology

Websites:

Administrators Accessing the Effectiveness of Technology
http://schoolcio.com/showarticle/15678
As districts continue to invest in new more advanced technologies, school building administrators are being charged with the added responsibility of overseeing and managing their local technology program and few are prepared to do so.

ISTE
http://www.iste.org/welcome.aspx
The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) website is dedicated to providing leadership and service to improve teaching and learning by advancing the effective use of technology in K–12 education and teacher education.

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Training: Common Core State Standards - What's it all about?
Dates: December 6, 2010 and February 1, 2011

English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects:

Mathematics:

Race to the Top Assessment Consortia:

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Handouts: National Initiative for the Common Core State Standards is the website sponsored by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers, provides information on the progress of the Common Core Standards initiative across the country. Here are the PDF's of the three appendices that accompany the Common Core State Standards from their website.

English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects

Appendix A: Research Supporting Key Elements of the Standards / Glossary

Appendix B: Text Exemplars and Sample Performance Tasks

Appendix C: Samples of Student Writing