1. Common Core State Standards and Essential Standards
Information for
HMS Families

2. Overview of Common Core
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Overview of Common Core

3. What are the changes based on Common Core ?
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What are the changes based on Common Core ?
Emphasis on Reading and Writing
Emphasis on 21st Century Skills
Emphasis on Increasing Text Complexity

4. A College and Career Ready Student
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A College and Career Ready Student
demonstrates independence
builds strong content knowledge
responds to the varying demands of audience, task, purpose, and discipline
comprehends and critiques
values evidence
uses technology and digital media strategically and capably
understands other perspectives and cultures
The introduction to the Common Core provides a description of a College and Career Ready Student. The standards were created with this end in mind.
Within the common core standards, you will find an emphasis on 21st century skills. The new teacher evaluation instrument will help guide teachers to improve, particularly as they scaffold for independence, teach students to use media effectively and ethically, and work with others to learn and create.
You will also find cross disciplinary literacy skills as students learn to read critically for purpose and understanding

5. Emphasis on 21st Century Skills
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Emphasis on 21st Century Skills
Teachers will scaffold for independence, teaching students to use media effectively and ethically and to work with others to learn and create.

6. 21st Century Skills Examples
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21st Century Skills Examples
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving: RI.7.8. Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims.
Collaboration: SL.8.1a-b Come to discussions prepared, having read or researched material under study. Follow rules for collegial discussions and decision-making, track progress toward specific goals and deadlines, and define individual roles as needed.
21st century skills manifest throughout the common core standards

7. Common Core Standards English Language Arts K-12 Mathematics K-12
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Common Core Standards
English Language Arts K-12
Mathematics K-12
Literacy Component for History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects K-12 (such as engineering, technology, design, business, or other workforce-related subject)
Common Core is a National Initiative and the Essential Standards are a state level initiative . English Language Arts and Mathematics do not have two different set of standards. Their common core is their state standards. The state can add up to 15% to the common core, per Race to the Top, but DPI has not published whether or not they will do this.
Technical subjects – A course devoted to a practical study, such as engineering, technology, design, business, or other workforce-related subject; a technical aspect of a wider field of study, such as art or music

8. English Language Arts Strands
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English Language Arts Strands
Reading: text complexity and the growth of the comprehension
Writing: text types, responding to reading and research
Speaking and Listening: flexible communication and collaboration
Language: conventions, effective use, and vocabulary
Text Complexity – readability, student’s background knowledge, reader task (what the reader is being asked to do)

9. Common Core for Mathematics
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Common Core for Mathematics
Standards for Mathematical Content to be College and Career Ready
Number and Quantity
Algebra
Functions
Modeling
Geometry
Statistics and Probability
The high school standards specify the mathematics that all students should study in order to be college and career ready. Additional mathematics that students should learn in order to take advanced courses such as calculus, advanced statistics, or discrete mathematics is indicated by (+), as in this example:
(+) Represent complex numbers on the complex plane in rectangular
and polar form (including real and imaginary numbers).
So not EVERY standard listed is for all students – the ones with a (+) are more for the honors students heading to AP courses. Others are for a particular interest area.

10. Common Core for Mathematics
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Common Core for Mathematics
Standards for Mathematical Practice
Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
Model with mathematics.
Use appropriate tools strategically.
Attend to precision.
Look for and make use of structure.
Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
The Standards for Mathematical Practice describe varieties of expertise that mathematics educators at all levels should seek to develop in their students. These practices rest on important “processes and proficiencies” with longstanding importance in mathematics education. The first of these are the NCTM process standards of problem solving, reasoning and proof, communication, representation, and connections. The second are the strands of mathematical proficiency specified in the National Research Council’s report Adding It Up: adaptive reasoning, strategic competence, conceptual understanding (comprehension of mathematical concepts, operations and relations), procedural fluency (skill in carrying out procedures flexibly, accurately, efficiently and appropriately), and productive disposition (habitual inclination to see mathematics as sensible, useful, and worthwhile, coupled with a belief in diligence and one’s own efficacy).

11. New Names for Math Courses
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New Names for Math Courses
Middle School Course Names:
Common Core Math 6
Common Core Math 7
Common Core Math 8
High School Course Names:
Common Core Math I will be offered next year (replaces Algebra I)
Common Core Math II and III will be phased in over the next two years (replaced Geometry and Algebra II)

12. Overview… English Language Arts… Math… Literacy… Essential Standards…
Literacy Component for History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects K-12
Explain the difference between content area reading and disciplinary literacy – how literacy is used to make meaning of a discipline

13. Features of 6-12 Literacy Standards
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Features of 6-12 Literacy Standards
Focus on discipline-specific vocabulary
Acknowledgement of unique text structures
Expectation for reading and writing in non-ELA classrooms
Expectation for development of informational/ technical writing skills
Focus on critical analysis and evidence

14. K-12 Anchor Standards for Reading
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K-12 Anchor Standards for Reading
There are 10 standards organized under the following topics:
Key ideas and details
Craft and Structure
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
This is for English Science SS and Tech
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity – there is one standard under this topic that is NOT articulated differently

15. History/Social Studies Science & Technical Subjects
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Sample Standard
ANCHOR STANDARD
(Reading)
History/Social Studies
Science & Technical Subjects
3. Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
RH Identify key steps in a text’s description of a process related to history/social studies (e.g., how a bill becomes a law, how interest rates are raised or lowered).
RST Follow precisely a multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks.
Use handout of slide and ask, “The left column shows what these standards have in common. What distinguishes the math from the science?”

16. Key Factors in History Reading Standards
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Key Factors in History Reading Standards
Textual evidence/sources
Relationship among events
Importance of author
Thinking across sources
(adapted from Shanahan & Shanahan)

17. Key Factors in Science/TS Reading Standards
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Key Factors in Science/TS Reading Standards
Understanding complex processes (follow precisely)
Translation (compare and contrast information in different forms, synthesize)
Critical thinking (distinguish among, assess, evaluate)
(adapted from Shanahan & Shanahan)

18. K- 12 Anchor Standards for Writing
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K- 12 Anchor Standards for Writing
There are 10 standards organized under the following topics:
Text types and purposes
Production and Distribution of Writing
Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Range of Writing

19. Overview of Essential Standards
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Overview of Essential Standards

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The following contents have adopted (or are in the process of being adopted) standards and implementation is scheduled for :
Science
Arts Education
World Language
Social Studies
Healthful Living
Occupational Course of Study – Implemented in
Information and Technology Skills – Implemented in
Guidance
CTE
Have been adopting them after 3.0
Science - next generation science standards (NGSS) scheduled for December 2013, whether we will adopt them in NC is still up for discussion

21. What are the changes in the Essential Standards from the Current SCoS?
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What are the changes in the Essential Standards from the Current SCoS?
Identifies essential standards and further clarifies these standards through the objectives
Emphasis on depth vs. breadth
Based on Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy

22. Essential Standards for Social Studies
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Essential Standards for Social Studies
Reflects a shift to a more conceptual framework –
not facts taught in isolation,
not memorization of names and dates but instead the connections and causality, and
Shift from regional coverage of content to chronological
For example: History class at Stanford

23. Essential Standards for Social Studies
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Essential Standards for Social Studies
There are five strands:
History
Geography
Culture
Civics
Economics
Strands are vertical aligned – both in nomenclature and content

24. Essential Standards for Science
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Essential Standards for Science
In K-8, students study:
earth,
life, and
physical science topics each year
Some topics have shifted from one grade level to another
Inquiry is integrated into each topic
Teachers have the opportunity to attend professional development sessions to prepare for the changes.

25. What are the changes based on Common Core ?
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What are the changes based on Common Core ?
Emphasis on Reading and Writing
Emphasis on 21st Century Skills
Emphasis on Increasing Text Complexity

26. Online Resource