1. Common Core ELA Standards Across the Disciplines Georgian Court University May 28, 2015 Kimberley Harrington Chief Academic Officer

2. So the question is… What is your role in graduating all students career and college ready?

3. College Readiness: Grade 11 ELA Write arguments to support claim(s) in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence Introduce precise knowledgeable claims(s), establish the significance of the claim(s), distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and create an organization that logically sequences claim(s), counterclaim(s), reasons and evidence. Develop claim(s) and counterclaim(s) fairly and thoroughly, supplying the most relevant evidence for each while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both in a manner that anticipates the audience’s knowledge level, concerns, values, and possible biases.

4. How are your assessments & lessons developed? Claims Design begins with the inferences (claims) we want to make about students Evidence In order to support claims, we must gather evidence Tasks Tasks are designed to elicit specific evidence from students in support of claims PARCC utilizes Evidence-Centered Design

5. Grade 3 Practice Test Item

6. Grade 4 Practice Test Item

7. Grade 7 Practice Test Item

9. Grade 11 – PARCC Practice Test

13. Redesigning the lab report

15. The Arts

18. Why not let your students become a personal trainer using an avatar like me? Students can create a diet and exercise plan for their client. They can complete their research and write a script for the avatar. They can then record their plan and have the avatar deliver the presentation to their peers! Health & PE Or … have students create a training book for the weight room with instructions for proper technique …

19. Students investigate an immigration issue in the US and a target language country, analyze and synthesize the information, and propose a solution in the form of a letter to editors in the U.S. and in the target language country. World Language

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21. Mathematical Practices 1.Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. 2.Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 3.Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. 4.Model with mathematics. 5.Use appropriate tools strategically. 6.Attend to precision. 7.Look for and make sense of structure. 8.Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

22. What are your needs? Next steps? Priorities?

23. Resources NJDOE Resources http://www.state.nj.us/education/http://www.state.nj.us/education/ Model Curricula for K-12 Mathematics and ELA Unit Assessments Scaffolds for ELL and Special Education Model lessons, units, videos, materials and resources Assessment bank Educator Resource Website (njcore.org) PARCC www.PARCConline.orgwww.PARCConline.org CCSS www.achievethecore.org;www.achievethecore.org http://www.corestandards.org/

24. PARCC Resources for Educators

25. Item of the Week

26. Task Sets

27. Parent Academy for Student Success (PASS) New Jersey Department of Education

28. Do you have a Common Core Implementation Team?

29. Contribute – Rate – Collect – Download – Share

30. What can I do? Educators can: Search for resources and/or browse standards/model curriculum to locate instructional materials Upload a resource to share with fellow educators and general public Rate a resource and view rating (only educators can rate resources) Create a user profile with a “my collections” feature to store and organize favorite resources Access on a mobile device on IOS (Apple) and Android devices. Share resources in social media

31. National Parent Teacher Association (PTA)- a grade-by- grade Parent Guide to students’ success on the CCSS http://pta.org/parents/content.cfm?ItemNumber=2583 http://pta.org/parents/content.cfm?ItemNumber=2583 Council of the Great City Schools- Parent Roadmaps to the Common Core Standards (ELA and Math). Provides guidance to parents about what their children will be learning and how they can support that learning in grades K-8. (Available in English and Spanish) http://cgcs.schoolwires.net/domain/36 http://cgcs.schoolwires.net/domain/36 Resources to Support Parents

32. This is our moment. What will you do?

33. Thank you for all you do! Kimberley Harrington Chief Academic Officer New Jersey Department of Education Kimberley.harrington@doe.state.nj.us