1. Implementing Common Core Standards Sandra Alberti Student Achievement Partners September 26, 2011

2. Overview What needs to change –ELA/Literacy –Math Suggested Action Steps for LEAs

3. ELA/Literacy: 6 shifts 1.Balance of literature and informational text (K-5) 2.Literacy as part of science and social studies/history; informational text as part of ELA (6-12) 3.Appropriately complex text 4.Questions regarding text are text-dependent 5.Writing to inform or argue using evidence 6.Academic Vocabulary

4. Mathematics FOCUS Coherence Fluency Deep Understanding Application Intensity

5. Key Fluencies GradeRequired Fluency KAdd/subtract within 5 1Add/subtract within 10 2 Add/subtract within 20 Add/subtract within 100 (pencil and paper) 3 Multiply/divide within 100 Add/subtract within 1000 4Add/subtract within 1,000,000 5Multi-digit multiplication 6 Multi-digit division Multi-digit decimal operations 7Solve px + q = r, p(x + q) = r 8Solve simple 2  2 systems by inspection

6. Grade Priorities in Support of Rich Instruction and Expectations of Fluency and Conceptual Understanding K–2 Addition and subtraction, measurement using whole number quantities 3–5 Multiplication and division of whole numbers and fractions 6 Ratios and proportional reasoning; early expressions and equations 7 Ratios and proportional reasoning; arithmetic of rational numbers 8Linear algebra Priorities in Mathematics

7. Advice to LEAs You need numbers to make this happen! –Materials: –Teachers –Students Reading lists are balanced Materials are focused… ERASE! 80% of questions are text-dependent Have a deep understanding of areas of focus Demonstrate close encounters with text through writing Demonstrate fluency and deep understanding of areas of focus

8. Assessment Strongest message you can send –ELA/Literacy Informational passages Writing to sources – not narrative, decontextualized prompts –Math Focus

9. Implementing Common Core Standards Sandra Alberti Student Achievement Partners salberti@studentsachieve.net

10. Resources http://ime.math.arizona.edu/progressions/ www.PTA.org