1. Common Core State Standards What Parents Need to Know

2. Desired Outcomes Understand the link between Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and College and Career Readiness Standards Awareness of transition timelines for implementation of CCSS and new assessments Awareness of how parents may help their children to be successful with the CCSS

3. Common Core State Standards and College and Career Readiness Standards Standards - what students should know and be able to do Common Core State Standards English Language Arts and Mathematics –Developed by several states –Adopted by 45 states –Aligned with College and Career Readiness Standards (skills and understandings that students must demonstrate)

4. Why Common Core State Standards and College and Career Readiness Standards are Important About 60% of jobs nationwide will require some type of postsecondary education by 2018 More Louisiana jobs are requiring a postsecondary education; of those 69% require vocational training, certification, or associate degree 31% require bachelor degree

5. College Readiness State-funded EXPLORE in grade 8 EXPLORE in grade 9 PLAN in grade 10 ACT in grade 11 Increased enrollment in Advanced Placement (AP) Classes

6. English Language Arts Standards Reading: Foundational Skills Reading: Literature Reading: Informational Text Writing Speaking and Listening Language Literacy in Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects

7. Highlights of the English Language Arts Standards Reading of informational and literary texts Application of literacy skills in content areas Reading of increasingly complex texts Use of evidence from text in writing and speaking Emphasis on academic vocabulary

8. English Language Arts Standards Example Grade 9 Literacy Standard in History: Compare and contrast findings presented in a text to those from other sources, noting when the findings support or contradict previous explanations or accounts Assignment: Select a case that is scheduled to come before the U.S. Supreme Court. Use the text of the U.S. Constitution and at least 2 other sources to support 2 decisions the court could make: one arguing for the case and the other against it. Support your arguments using the information you gathered.

9. 9 Common Core Math Domains Math DomainsK12345678 Counting & CardinalityX Operations and Algebraic ThinkingXXXXXX Number & Operations in Base 10XXXXXX Number & Operations – FractionsXXX Measurement & DataXXXXXX GeometryXXXXXXXXX Ratio & Proportional RelationshipsXX The Number SystemXXX Statistics & ProbabilityXXX Expressions & EquationsXXX FunctionsX

10. 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

11. Mathematics Standards Example Grade 5 Math Standard: Solve real-word problems involving division of unit fractions by non-zero whole numbers Standard for Mathematical Practice: Model with mathematics Assignment: The Jonas family has half of a large pizza. There are three people in the family. They want equal shares of the pizza. What part of a pizza will each person get?

12. 12 2011-122012-132013-142014-15 PreKCurrent New KCurrentNew Grade 1CurrentNew Grade 2CurrentTransitionalNew Grades 3-8CurrentTransitional New High SchoolCurrentTransitional New Implementation Overview Common Core State Standards and new assessments will be phased in over several years No changes - current curriculum, current assessments Curriculum and assessments based on CCSS only Curriculum - some GLEs deleted, some GLEs remain, some CCSS added Assessments – based on GLEs that remain in curriculum

13. How Parents May Help Kindergarten readiness Know the standards –http://www.louisianaschools.net/http://www.louisianaschools.net/ Encourage perseverance Talk to your children –Changes in standards –Importance of college and career readiness Support higher levels of learning

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