1. College and Career Readiness Symposium Strategies for Closing the
College and Career Readiness Gap

2. Welcome

3. Common Core changes
EVERYTHING

4. Instructional Shifts FROM TO Teaching facts Multiple choice
Subjective observation
Manual tracking TO
Teaching critical
thinking
Performance-based
Evaluation based on
outcomes
Automated data
reporting

5. Common Core Math Focus where the Standards focus
Coherence between topics, ideas, and grades
Rigor for conceptual understanding, procedural skill and fluency, and application

6. Common Core ELA Building knowledge through content- rich nonfiction
Reading, writing, and speaking grounded in evidence from text - both literary and informational
Regular practice with complex text and its academic language 5

7. The system for Common Core
Immediate, actionable data
Authors and architects of CCSS
Personalized Professional Development to build capacity
Data to inform decisions and personalize learning

8. Our Keynote Speaker Jennifer Bay-Williams