Common Core State Common Core State Standards Standards

State Board of EducationState Board of Education

October 22, 2009October 22, 2009

Presentation OverviewPresentation Overview

• Background: Common Core Standards Initiative

• Phases of Standards Development

• Details Surrounding Phase One: College & Career Readiness Standards

• Oregon’s Involvement in Phase One

• Next steps in the Common Core Standards development process

Common Core State Standards Common Core State Standards InitiativeInitiative

• Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and National Governor’s Association (NGA) leading the effort

• Building on work of Achieve

• Goals of initiative:– Fewer, clearer and higher-level standards– Aligned with college and work expectations– Internationally benchmarked

Common Core State Standards Common Core State Standards InitiativeInitiative

• Goals of initiative (continued)– Prepare students with the knowledge and

skills they need to succeed in college and careers regardless of where they live

– Provide equal access to a high-quality education and the workforce

Common Core State Common Core State Standards: Two PhasesStandards: Two Phases

Phase 1: College and career-readiness standards -end of high school expectations

– Definitions of “College readiness” and “career readiness”

– Designed to anchor K-12 standards

Common Core State Common Core State Standards: Two PhasesStandards: Two Phases

Phase 2: K–12 grade level standards- grade by grade articulation of the common core

–Designed to serve as guide & tool for aligning instruction, curriculum, assessment & teacher supports, & systems of accountability

Common Core State Common Core State StandardsStandards

Initial Content Areas • Mathematics

• English/Language Arts

Why start with these?• Considered to be foundational skills

• Are at heart of our current accountability system

Common Core Development Common Core Development and Adoption Processand Adoption Process

Validation Committee

Common Core

Development Group

ACT

College Board

Achieve

State Adoption

State Input

Feedback Group

CCSSO

Phase 1: College and Career Phase 1: College and Career Readiness Standards-Readiness Standards-

Oregon’s Involvement Oregon’s Involvement • Oregon signed Memorandum of Agreement • Internal review of Draft 1 of C&CRS-response to

CCSSO late July• Outreach to partners to provide feedback on

Draft 2• Internal review of Draft 2-sent Oct. 21st • Meetings & Conversations with Achieve and

CCSSO staff

Phase 1: College and Career Phase 1: College and Career Readiness StandardsReadiness Standards

MathematicsOverall Structure:

• A Standard for Mathematical Practice – Six practices (or processes)

• 10 Standards for Math Content– Each containing core concepts and core skills

students need to understand & be able to do

• Web-based collection of Example Tasks

Phase 1: College and Career Phase 1: College and Career Readiness StandardsReadiness Standards

MathematicsOur observations and remaining concerns:

– Draft 2 revisions address some recommendations submitted by ODE

– Good inclusion of critical mathematics content & effective teaching and learning practices

– Level of preparation/rigor included not appropriate for all students to master to graduate from high school

Phase 1: College and Career Phase 1: College and Career Readiness StandardsReadiness Standards

English/Language Arts

• Three strands– Reading Informational and Literary Texts,

Writing, and Speaking & Listening

• Each strand contains– Standards for Range and Content– Standards for Student Performance

Phase 1: College and Career Phase 1: College and Career Readiness StandardsReadiness Standards

English/Language Arts (continued)

• Applications of the Core– For Research– For Media

• Supporting materials– Reading exemplars– Writing exemplars

Phase 1: College and Career Phase 1: College and Career Readiness StandardsReadiness Standards

English/Language ArtsOur observations and suggestions:

– Reading standards can leverage significantly higher literacy rates in US over time

– Reading & Writing standards both combine like concepts and/or parts of a process that go together

– Listening & Speaking standards contain vital workforce skills

– “Summarization” only relevant skill not included

Phase 1: College and Career Phase 1: College and Career Readiness StandardsReadiness Standards

English/Language Arts

• Assessing these skills will require a constructed response form of assessment

• Oregon’s current ELA standards do not include 11th and 12th grade level

Next StepsNext StepsPhase 2: Common Grade Phase 2: Common Grade

Level StandardsLevel Standards• First draft of Mathematics and ELA K-12

standards to be released November 2009

• ODE coordinating statewide input process to gather feedback from the field

• ODE will do gap analysis between Oregon standards and the common K-12 standards

Next Steps and Next Steps and ConsiderationsConsiderations

• Participating states asked to adopt 100% of the common core standards. States may then add additional standards if desired, but no more than 15% of total number of standards

• Adoption timeline under further review due to varying state adoption processes

• National conversations around common assessment system aligned to common core, professional development needs and instructional materials beginning soon