Keynote Presentations

Kay Burke

Creating Checklists and Rubrics for the Common Core Standards
Learn how to work in teams to review the common core standards and “chunk” the key concepts into teacher checklists that provide a road map for effective performance-based teaching. Focus on the language of the standards and create formative checklists to provide specific feedback to improve student projects and performances. Convert the checklists to rigorous rubrics that provide descriptors of quality and prove students have met or exceeded the standards on summative assessments.

Lisa Carter

Implementing Common Core Standards: Creating the Conditions for Success Through Total Instructional Alignment™
Lessons from the past clearly teach us that effective implementation of learning standards into instructional practice cannot and must not be left to chance. Successful implementation will require a thoughtful strategic plan that will support teachers and administrators. Focus on the conditions and tools necessary for the successful implementation of common core standards through the proven of Total Instructional Alignment™ process.

Cassandra Erkens

Building Common Assessments for the Common Core
Learn how the use of common assessments, developed at the team level, can serve as a primary vehicle to help schools align to the common core standards. Done well, the practice of developing and employing quality common assessments can help teams align curriculum and instruction to the standards, develop assessment literacy for teachers, and most importantly, promote continued student learning.

Douglas Fisher

Teaching Students to Read Like Detectives: The Common Core Way
The Common Core State Standards for English language arts and literacy provide an opportunity for teachers to scaffold discussions and interactions and for students to assume increased responsibility for learning. The standards demand that students learn to justify their responses with evidence and to read increasingly complex text. Understand the necessary changes in curriculum and instruction to ensure high levels of achievement.

Timothy D. Kanold

Common Core State Standards Mathematics in a PLC Culture
Understand the leadership discipline and energy necessary to meet the challenging demands and expectations of the common core standards in math. Dr. Kanold will examine the major assessment inequity creators every school district must eliminate to meet the standards. Make commitments to erase assessment inequities during the 2012–13 school year.

Robert J. Marzano

Formative Assessment and Standards-Based Grading
Learn how to implement an integrated system of assessment and grading that will enhance both teaching and learning. Dr. Marzano provides specific information on the benefits of formative assessment and explains how to design and interpret three different types. He also illustrates the necessary changes in instruction that must accompany a rigorous formatively based approach to assessment. Finally, he explains and exemplifies new approaches to grading that better support formative assessment.