1. Overview of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS)
English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
and
Mathematics
May 8, 2012

2. What are the CCSS?
A set of research-based K-12 content standards for English Language Arts and Mathematics
46 states have adopted the CCSS
Define what students should know and able to do to prepare them to succeed in college and the workforce
Fewer, clearer, higher

3. How Were the CCSS Developed?
Founding Organizations:
National Governors Association Center for Best Practices
Council of Chief State School Officers (Commissioners)
Development Process:
Teachers
Parents
School Administrators
Colleges
National Education Association
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
National Council of Teachers of English
National Parent Teacher Association
etc.

4. Why Were the CCSS Developed?
Different standards across states
Student mobility
Global competition
Today’s jobs require different skills

5. Key Features of the English Language Arts CCSS
Focus on reading, writing, speaking, listening, language
Emphasis on more informational reading and writing (to inform, persuade, explain)
Skills related to media use are integrated throughout the standards
Text complexity has been raised

6. Standards for English Language Arts Content
Grade Level Domains
K – 8
Literature
Informational Text
Foundational Skills
Writing
Speaking and Listening
Language
6 - 8
Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
Writing in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects

7. Key Features of the Mathematics CCSS
Mathematical Practice and Content Standards
Combination of procedure and understanding
Mastery of standards through grade 7 prepares students for Algebra in grade 8

8. Standards for Mathematical Content
Grade Level Domains
K – 5
Counting and Cardinality
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Number and Operations in Base Ten
Number and Operations – Fractions
Measurement and Data
Geometry
6-8
Ratios and Proportional Relationships
The Number System
Expressions and Equations
Functions
Statistics and Probability

9. CCSS Vs. NH GLE’s
CCSS 7th Grade Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place or character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history.
No matching GLE
NH GLE 8th Grade Understanding, Analysis and Interpretation of Literary Texts/Citing Evidence:  Compare stories and other texts to
related personal experience, prior knowledge, or to other books
No matching CCSS

10. CCSS Vs. NH GLE’s continued
Grade 6 GLE: Accurately solves problems involving single or multiple operations on fractions (proper, improper, and mixed), or decimals; and addition or subtraction of integers; percent of a whole; or problems involving greatest common factor or least common multiple.
Grade 5 CCSS: Add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators (including mixed numbers) by replacing given fractions with equivalent fractions in such a way as to produce an equivalent sum or difference of fractions with like denominators.

11. Assessment Transition Timeline
Fall NECAP as usual
Fall NECAP (with some math
transitional items)
Fall Final NECAP (transitional test)
Fall 2014 No fall NECAP test
Spring 2015 Common Core State Standards
Test

12. SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium
One of two multistate consortia awarded funding by the U.S. Department of Education to develop an assessment system based on the CCSS
Summative assessments
Optional interim assessments
On-line, computer adaptive assessments

13. Sample Performance Tasks
Grade 4 Informational Text: Students determine the main idea of Colin A. Ronan’s “Telescopes” and create a summary by explaining how key details support his distinctions regarding different types of telescopes.
Grade 8 Performance Task: Simpson Park

14. Next Steps for Hampstead
NH DOE has developed a “State of New Hampshire CCSS Implementation Framework”
Hampstead is developing a similar framework

15. Further Information on the CCSS
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