Shoreline Community College&

Shoreline School District

Core-To-College

English Language Arts & Math2012-2013

CCSS Training (Math and ELA)Course Alignment and Comparison (Math)New Course Development (ELA)

CCSS Training

English Language Arts: Session 1: Overview of CCSS and examination of

specific strands (Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening, and Language)

Session 2: SBA - comparing cognitive rigor of SBA performance tasks with HSPE and with SpringBoard embedded assessments

CCSS Training

Math: Best instructional practices – Shifts: focus, coherence, rigor

Common language

Standards of Mathematical Practice Looked at Smarter Balanced Performance Tasks

Appropriate scaffolding

Course Alignment and Comparison (Math)

Compared high school and SCC courses Syllabus and course overviews (SCC) Curriculum guides (SSD) Final exams for Math 80 and 99 (SCC) Textbooks for Algebra I and II and Geometry (SSD)

Concluded that courses were fairly aligned in content and expectations

Professional Learning Plan for 2013-2014

Observe in each others’ classes

SBA – administer a performance task to students and norm our grading together SCC English 100 & SSD English 12 SCC Math 80, Math 99 & SSD Algebra I, Algebra II

Critical insights

Understanding instructional shifts of the CCSS

Understanding of rigor, content, and expectations of both SSD and SCC courses

Surprises

Once we decided what to do and scheduled the work, the collaboration was a great success

Faculty expressed an interest in observing each other’s classes

Faculty expressed an interest in further collaboration in norming our grading Analysis of students work Smarter Balanced Performance Tasks

Thank you

SCCBrandon Rogers Special Assistant to the President for Grants and ContractsDutch Henry Professor of EnglishRosalie Tepper Director, Math Learning Center

SSDTeri Poff Director of Teaching and LearningJen Etter Instructional Specialist for Language Arts Shereen Henry Instructional Specialist for Math

Challenges

TIME and Scheduling School district and community college staff have

very different schedules, making it difficult to find common time for training and collaboration

Determining how to go about accomplishing our goals Determining what we needed to do to build capacity

for transcript and college placement agreements Blending two different staff cultures to achieve

common understanding Collecting data in the future to determine

effectiveness of placement agreements

New Course Development in English Language Arts – 12th grade

SSD and SCC faculty jointly designed a high school senior year college readiness course

Used CCSS and HEC Board Academic Descriptors for Behaviors and Dispositions to develop a common definition of what a college ready student would be able to do

Used SpringBoard and Expository Reading and Writing Course from Cal State Univ.

Designed course that is both skill focused and high interest

Placement Process Plan for 2013-2014

Develop College Placement Agreements Coursework SBA scores