September 2010

Commonly Asked Questions:  What does it mean to ad0pt the Common Core Standards?  How will the Common Core Standards connect to curriculum, instruction, and assessment? DPI Guidance Document for Common Core State Standards Initiative

CESAs Professional Organizations Administrator Groups Content Groups LEAsIHEs Partnerships Business ECB Multistate DPI

Communication Professional learning Resource development Curriculum development Formative and benchmark assessments Additional resources

Students:  Demonstrate independence  Build strong content knowledge  Respond to the varying demands of audience, task, purpose, and discipline  Comprehend as well as critique  Value evidence  Use technology and digital media strategically and capably  Come to understand other perspectives and cultures

Standards for Mathematical Practice:  Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them  Reason abstractly and quantitatively  Construct viable arguments and critique 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

Common Core Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects  College and Career Readiness (CCR) Anchor Standards for each strand:  Reading  Writing  Speaking and Listening  Language ▪ Overarching targets (parallel for each grade band)

 Reading: Text complexity and growth of comprehension  Grades K-5: Literature and Informational Text  Grades K-5: Reading Standards – Foundational Skills  Grades 6-12: Literature and Informational Text  Writing: Text types, responding to reading, and research  Speaking and Listening: Flexible communication and collaboration  Language: Conventions and vocabulary

Common Core Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects  Grades 6-12: Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, & Technical Subjects ▪ Based on CCR Anchor Standards for Reading ▪ Based on CCR Anchor Standards for Writing ▪ Presented as grade bands: 6-8, 9-10, ▪ Technical subjects: defined as engineering, technology, business, design, and other workforce-related subjects; technical aspects of wider fields of study such as art and music

 Standards for Mathematical Practice  Standards for Mathematical Content ▪ K-8 grade level standards  Algebraic thinking standards indicated in K-5  Grade level overviews: K-8 ▪ Mathematical Standards for High School  Conceptual categories  Additional standards for preparation for advanced courses

 Grades K-5  Numbers and Operations  Operations and Algebraic Thinking  Measurement and Data  Geometry  Grades 6-8  Number System  Ratios and Proportional Relationships [Gr. 8 – Functions]  Expressions and Equations  Geometry  Statistics and Probability

 High School  Numbers and Quantity  Algebra  Functions  Modeling  Geometry  Statistics and Probability

Tools to lead the conversation around implementation  Set of common beliefs  CESAs’ Foundations Kit  Framework(s) for curriculum, assessments, instruction  Examples from pilot sites (“early implementers”)

 Fall 2010: Administration of WKCE  (Projected): Development of SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium’s formative resources, and benchmark and summative items  (Projected): Piloting and field testing of the summative assessment  : New summative assessment system is projected to be in place

Websites:  WI DPI:  Common Core State Standards Initiative: / /

Emilie Amundson, English Language Arts Jacque Karbon, Reading Diana Kasbaum, Mathematics Shelley Lee, Science Kristen McDaniel, Social Studies Paul Sandrock, Content and Learning Team