1. Colorado Academic Standards Lori Benton, Ph.D. Lewis-Palmer School District

2. Overview Why the change? What do the new standards look like? How will the state measure the new standards? What is our implementation plan?

3. Why the change? Where we’ve been… Initial standards movement began in 1995. Districts were expected to write/adopt standards which met or exceeded the state standards. Staff members from LPSD spent a multitude of hours writing, rewriting, and wordsmithing standards. The writing of the standards preceded CSAP assessments and NCLB. Most districts went back and adopted the Colorado Model Content Standards a few years later. The first CSAP test was 1997 in only two grades. No Child Left Behind brought in AYP and required science testing at elementary, middle, and high schools.

4. Why the change? Where we’re headed… Senate Bill 212 (also known as CAP 4 Kids) legislation was passed in 2008 and intends to improve and enhance work from the previous 15 years. The primary focus is postsecondary success for all students. At the district and school levels, this means reviewing and updated standards, curriculum, and assessment. Over the past few years, content area subcommittees, informed by national and international benchmarks and guided by national experts, wrote and updated CO Model Content Standards into the Colorado Academic Standards.

5. What do the new standards look like? There are 10 content areas in the new Colorado Academic Standards: Dance Drama and Theatre Arts Health and PE Mathematics Music Reading, Writing, and Communicating Science Social Studies Visual Arts World Languages Districts are expected to meet or exceed the standards and implement them based on resources and community priorities.

6. What do the new standards look like? Districts are expected to meet or exceed the standards and implement them based on resources and community priorities. Two other types of standards were also adopted. These standards focus on two groups of students; namely, students with significant cognitive needs who quality for CO-Alternate and English Language Learners (ELL). Extended Evidence Outcomes Alternate Standards for students with significant cognitive needs CELP (CO English Language Proficiency) 4 Areas Listening Speaking Reading Writing Based on WIDA Also embedded in Colorado Academic Standards

7. Colorado Academic Standards Key elements for Transformation in the Standards Prepared Graduate Competencies 21st Century Skills Focus on “All students, All standards” Clearer, higher, and relevant Mastery – application and transferability Concepts and skills

8. Colorado Academic Standards What Are Prepared Graduate Competencies? The preschool through twelfth-grade concepts and skills that all students who complete the Colorado education system must master to ensure their success in a postsecondary and workforce setting.

9. Colorado Academic Standards Prepared graduate competencies are the “end in mind” of the standards PGC Observe, explain, and predict natural phenomena governed by Newton's laws of motion, acknowledging the limitations of their application to very small or very fast objects HS Newton’s laws of motion and gravitation describe the relationships among forces acting on and between objects, their masses, and changes in their motion – but have limitations 8th Identify and calculate the direction and magnitude of the forces that act on an object, and explain the results in the object’s change of motion 2nd Changes in speed or direction of motion are caused by forces such as pushes and pulls. K Objects can move in a variety of ways that can be described by speed and direction

10. Colorado Academic Standards 21 st Century Skills as a Vehicle for Transformation Critical Thinking Invention Self-Direction Collaboration Information Literacy Collaboration Self Direction Information Literacy Invention Critical Thinking

11. Colorado Academic Standards Content Area Standard: Prepared Graduates: High School and Grade Level Expectations Concepts and skills students master: Evidence Outcomes21 st Century Skills and Readiness Competencies Students can: Inquiry Questions: Relevance and Application: Nature of the Discipline: Name of Content Area Topical Organization P-12 Concept and Skill thread students must master Concepts & skills indicating progress to PGC mastery Indicators of student mastery Promote critical thinking Relevant societal context Characteristics of Discipline

12. How will the state measure the new standards? TCAP (Transitional Colorado Assessment Program) Spring of 2012 and 2013 Overlap between Colorado Model Content Standards and Colorado Academic Standards Includes CoAlt New Assessment Scheduled for Spring 2014 National assessment revealed 2015

13. What is our implementation plan? Adopt New Policies AEA, IA, IGA, IGF, and IL demonstrating support of the new Colorado Academic Standards. Revise Curriculum! 2010-12 Finish revisions and updates Identify overlaps and gaps Grade level and content areas Utilize curriculum mapping software BOE action on standards 2012-13 Continue 2011-12 work Update materials as necessary Continue to identify overlaps and gaps

14. In Summary… Colorado Academic Standards (CAS) Revised CO Model Content 10 + 2 Focus on prepared graduate and 21 st Century preparedness Transitional Assessment TCAP and CoAlt Blended CMCS with CAS