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Collaborating for Success With the Common Core
A Toolkit for Professional Learning Communities at Work™
Leverage teamwork to integrate the CCSS into your curriculum, and build on a foundational knowledge of PLCs. You’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of the shifts required to implement the standards in core content areas and find valuable tips and strategies for creating strong collaborative practices. Identify the essential standards, determine learning targets, define proficiency, learn how to design rigorous assessments, and more.
Benefits
- Gain a comprehensive understanding of the CCSS for English language arts and mathematics.
- Navigate the shifts required by the CCSS for curriculum, instruction, assessment, and intervention.
- Learn how collaborative teams within a PLC provide the support necessary for successful transition to the CCSS.
- Unpack and power the CCSS to deliver a viable and guaranteed curriculum.
- Understand how to scale learning targets drawing on well-known taxonomies of levels of thinking.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Understanding the Common Core State Standards
Chapter 2: Supporting Change to Facilitate Shifts to the CCSS
Chapter 3: Powering the CCSS
Chapter 4: Unwrapping the CCSS
Chapter 5: Scaling Learning Targets to Define Proficiency
Chapter 6: Determining Pacing and Unit Design
Chapter 7: Defining Rigor and Assessment Practices
Chapter 8: Using Rubrics to Provide Feedback
Chapter 9: Using Quality Instructional Practices
Chapter 10: Responding When Students Need More Time and Support
Chapter 11: Responding When Students Are Proficient
PRINTABLE REPRODUCIBLES
Chapter 1
- CCSS English Language Arts/Literacy Scavenger Hunt
- CCSS for Mathematics Scavenger Hunt
- A Summary of Shifts in the CCSS
Chapter 6
Appendix
- Analytic Rubric Template
- Assessment Plan for Scaled Assessments
- Basic Unwrapping Template
- Collaborative Scoring Protocol
- Comparison of Taxonomies
- Developing a Response to a Learning Target
- Developing a Response to Scaled Learning Targets
- Leveled Unwrapping Template
- Loose Versus Tight Decisions
- Planning Common Formative Assessments
- Protocol for Powering the Common Core
- Protocol for Team Review of Unwrapped Standards
- Survey on Team Norms
- Unwrapping Template With Formative and Summative Measures
- Unwrapping Template With Taxonomies
- Variation on Collaborative Scoring Protocol
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
- Application of Common Core State Standards for English Language Learners
- Application to Students With Disabilities
- Appendix B: Grade Level Tables for All Claims and Assessment Targetes and Item Types (SBAC)
- Content Specifications for the Summative Assessment of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (SBAC)
- All Things PLC, “Critical Issues for Team Collaboration”
- Framework for English Language Proficiency Development Standards Corresponding to the Common Core State Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards (CCSSO)
- PARCC Model Content Frameworks
- PARCC Model Content Frameworks: English Language Arts/Literacy, Grades 3–11 (p. 6)
- Sample Items and Performance Tasks (SBAC)
RESOURCES TO SUPPORT POWERING THE CCSS
Assessment
- Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career (PARCC)
- PARCC Model Content Frameworks
- PARCC Model Content Frameworks: English Language Arts/Literacy, Grades 3–11
- PARCC Model Content Frameworks: Mathematics, Grades 3–11
- Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC)
- Appendix B: Grade Level Tables for All Claims and Assessment Targetes and Item Types (SBAC)
- Content Specifications for the Summative Assessment of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (SBAC)
- All Things PLC
English Language Arts
- Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
- CCSS (English Language Arts Standards)
- CCSS for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects: Appendix A—Research Supporting Key Elements of the Standards
- CCSS for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects: Appendix B—Text Exemplars and Sample Performance Tasks
- CCSS for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects: Appendix C—Samples of Student Writing
- Application of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Learners
- Application to Students With Disabilities
- Framework for English Language Proficiency Development Standards Corresponding to the Common Core State Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards
Mathematics
