Common Core State StandardsImplications for Leadership

Curriculum Leadership Council Networking Session

Session Objectives:

Discuss strategies, processes, challenges, and support needed for moving the CCSS transition forward.

Propose leadership practices that can accelerate the implementation of CCSS in to practice.

CCSS Affirmations (+ or -)

Common Core Syndrome Initiative OverloadPD, PD, PDMomentum DipThis will pass -just let me teachStandards-based instruction – not new!What happened to Tier I VocabularyCCSS is for ELA / Math – I teach HistoryDidn’t we try Writing Across the Curriculum

Status Check

Where is your district in the phases established for transition to the CCSS and readiness for assessment by 2015?

What does that transition phase look like at the Board, Cabinet, Site and Classroom levels?

What strategies or processes are in place for moving forward in the transition?

Conclusions about Implementation

Identify 2-3 Key Strengths

Identify 2-3 Areas of focus for improvement

What are the implications for

Curriculum

Instruction

Assessment

What strategies/processes are you

implementing to meet those implications?

Leadership Practices

VisioningDefining Expectations/ ValuesCreating a “change” cultureBuilding Capacity / Cultivating leadershipDefining MetricsMonitoring and CalibratingEngagement in Feedback protocols

“Principles” of Change

1. Transform assistant principals, department chairs, program coordinators, academic coaches, grade/course leads into instructional leaders

2. Understand the instructional shifts and standards

3. Foster PLC teams to implement change

4. Implement from a plan (Success by Design)

5. Monitor, observe, calibrate and provide feedback from the collection and review of student work

CLC Support

What support can the MCOE CLC provide to assist the transition to full implementation by 2015?

What resources are needed to support your transition plans?

Next Steps…..