Presentation Materials from Bay Area CCSS Summit

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Aaron Grossman

As part of the Third Annual San Francisco Bay Area Common Core State Standards Summit, convened by the Contra Costa County Office of Education, educators worked through research and materials match to the CCSS and vetted through Washoe’s Core Task Project. In the session titled A Closer Look at the CCSS ‘Core Actions’ for K-8 Teachers, participants worked through video and print material from Dr. Timothy Shanahan, MetaMetrics, Robert Pondiscio, Debra Meiers, and Dr. Daniel Willingham. These materials were further matched to the Core Actions in the Instructional Practice Guides.

You can download the session materials in the links below.

Bay Area CCSS Summit PowerPoint

Cohrent Body of Knowledge Notetaker

Grades K-2 Instructional Practice Guide Daily

Grades K-2 Instructional Practice Guide Yearly

Grades 3-5 Instructional Practice Guide Daily

Grades 3-5 Instructional Practice Guide Yearly

Grades 6-12 Instructional Practice Guide Daily

Grades 6-12 Instructional Practice Guide Yearly

Practice High Quality Texts

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62 6th through 10th Grade ELA Lessons Uploaded to 63000resources.com

Posted on October 22, 2014 by Aaron Grossman

As part of the Anthology Alignment Project, educators created sixty-two lessons matched to the Holt Elements of Literature—works based on some great writings. For those of you unfamiliar with the AAP, hundreds of teachers worked collaboratively to develop these materials, following deep training on the Common Core by Student Achievement Partners. Each lesson has been authored, edited, and reviewed by a team of teachers. You download the lessons here which include titles by Frederick Douglas, Sandra Cisneros, Walter Dean Myers, John Keats, Francisco Jimenez, Albert Einstein and many others.

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Session 2 Materials from Literacy Unit Project

Posted on October 21, 2014 by Aaron Grossman

Teachers in grade 3rd through 5th gathered for the second session of the Literacy Unit Project. The aim of this endeavor is to have two to four units, matched to Enduring Understandings that stretch across all three grades, by the spring of 2015. The units will borrow from well-vetted resources and will involve curriculum development to fill gaps where materials for the units are absent or weak. Further the units will reinforce dispositions and habits outlined in the front matter of the Common Core State Standards.

The second session focused on using the EQuiP Rubric, finalizing the Enduring Understandings, and reviewing current Washoe County work to build from what is already happening in our classrooms. You can review the resources shared in the session below.

Literacy Units Project Session 2 PowerPoint

A Close Read of the New Colossus

EQuiP ELA Rubric Discussion Guide

EQuiP ELA Rubric

EU Refinement Document

I Used to Think and Now I Think

Introduction to the EQuiP Rubric PowerPoint

Unit Themes Brainstorm Notetaker

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Session Materials from DC CTP

Posted on October 19, 2014 by Aaron Grossman

Washington D.C. educators gathered for a second time to work through materials that have been vetted through the Core Task and Core Task implementation Project. The three-hour session focused on text complexity and text-dependent questions. The work of bringing CTP to DC is part of the Teachers and Principals of Pupils Promise grant.

You can review the session resources in the links below.

DC Core Task Project PowerPoint

Brief Guide to Writing Text-Dependent Questions

ACT Reading Report

Message to the Grassroots by Malcolm X

Text Complexity Qualitative Measures Rubric

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Presentation Materials: Elementary SEL/Student Voice and Academic Integration Training

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Aaron Grossman

Kate Crist helped bridge Common Core State Standards and Social Emotional Learning Standards in a presentation at the Elementary SEL/Student Voice and Academic Integration Training. Kate used the instructional move, Keep It or Junk it with an article by Vicki Zakrzewski (here) to demonstrate how to incorporate the Instructional Practice Guides and the SEL standards. You can retrieve the presentation materials below.

SEL & ELA/Literacy CCSS PowerPoint

How to Integrate Social-Emotional Learning into Common Core

Core Task Project Instructional Moves Sourcebook

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Core Task Project Instructional Moves Sourcebook

Posted on October 10, 2014 by Aaron Grossman

Over the course of the last three years, as teachers asked for assistance with the implementation of the Common Core State Standards, three questions consistently came up:

  • What is the research that governs why we are being asked to shift instruction?
  • What curricular resources will support our move to the CCSS? and
  • What instructional moves are well matched to the CCSS?

The first two questions have answers at the site www.coretaskproject.com and at the parallel space, www.63000resources.com.

The third question, however, was not well addressed and thus the impetus for this Sourcebook. Listed below are 10 moves educators can take into their classrooms. Each move comes with a short description, links to resources and where applicable, video lesson demonstrations.

This document will likely be updated over the next few months so note the version you are using in the footer and check either www.coretaskproject.com or www.63000resources.com for the most current version. The moves include:

  • Cold Call
  • Keep It Or Junk It
  • Stand Up, Hand Up, Pair Up
  • Quiz, Quiz, Trade
  • Four Corners
  • Teaching Conflict & Characterization
  • Close Reading
  • You, Y’all, We
  • Stop and Jot
  • Text at the Center of Instruction

You can find the Sourcebook here.

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Evidence and Argument

Posted on October 2, 2014 by Aaron Grossman

Dr. Michael Kamil, Emeritus Professor at Stanford University and contributing author to the ELA Common Core State Standards, explains what students need to know about evidence. He notes that research about argumentation and citing evidence indicates that schools are not teaching these skills, regardless of content area (including science), and that even if we were, it takes a long time for students to secure this outcome.

At minute 2:57, Kamil outlines what an argument is and breaks down its components into: Topic or main contention; claims about the topic; evidence for the claims; and a warrant explaining how the evidence supports the claims. At minute 4:38, we learn what evidence is and strategies to help students differentiate between claims supported by evidence and claims that are not. Then, at minute 11:50, Kamil describes warrants and ways to evaluate them.

One strategy that Kamil promotes, to assist in pulling all these elements together, is the Inquiry Chart Template (14:09) that you can learn more about here.

Kamil’s entire video presentation is located here.

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Core Task implementation Project Session 2 Materials

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Aaron Grossman

For session two to the Core Task implementation Project (CTiP), educators focused on the Speaking and Listening Standards, Accountable Talk, and the instructional move Quiz, Quiz, Trade. Teachers reflected on actions steps from session one and district supported curricular resources.

Linked below are the materials shared in the eight sessions that started September 30th and end October 16th. The 3rd through 5th grade lesson demonstration is linked in the PowerPoint.

CTiP Session 2 PowerPoint Grades K-2/3

CTiP Session 2 PowerPoint Grades 3-5

Accountable Talk Stems & 3 Parts

Accountable Talk Card Templates

Accountable Talk Sourcebook

CTiP Reflection Notetaker

CTiP Focus Student Data Sheet

In a World… Icebreaker

Quiz, Quiz, Trade (in print format) CTiP S&L Cards

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CTP shared with ToPPP

Posted on September 26, 2014 by Aaron Grossman

The Core Task Project was shared with educators working with the Teachers and Principals of Pupils Promise grant this week in Washington, D.C. The session focused on the instructional shifts and dispositions matched to the Common Core State Standards. Linked below are the materials shared in the session.

ToPPP September 26th PowerPoint

6=3 Shifts graphic

Shift Notetaker

Anchor Standards Cards

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Nevada Education Advocates Summit

Posted on September 20, 2014 by Aaron Grossman

Educators and community members from throughout the state gathered for the first Nevada Education Advocates Summit. The event was a teacher-led effort to outline the features the Nevada Academic Content Standards. The day was highlighted by a keynote address by State Superintendent of Public Instruction Dale Erquiaga and breakout sessions around the NACS, the instructional shifts, and College and Career Readiness.

All of the session resources can be found here.

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