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TWO-YEAR IMPLEMENTATION PLAN FOR NEW MATHEMATICS STANDARDS

Alaska Department of Education and Early Development

May 2013

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Timeline for New Assessments

• June 2012 New Alaska standards for English/language arts and mathematics adopted

• Spring 2014 Standards Based Assessments based on Grade Level Expectations administered in 2013-2014 school year

• Spring 2015 New assessments based on new standards administered in 2014-2015 school year (new assessments will be Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium—SBAC— assessments)

New Standards Have Domains that Differ by Grade—GLE Strands Are the Same for All Grades

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Key Areas of Focus In New Standards

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Topics Assessed in Different Grades

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Standards for Mathematical Practice

• The Standards for Mathematical Practice are integral to the vision of how students will learn the new standards

• The Standards for Mathematical Practice can be implemented in conjunction with the content standards in all grades, either with the GLEs or the new standards

• Professional development on the Standards for Mathematical Practice is essential

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Implementation for K-Grade 2

• Full implementation should begin in the 2013-2014 school year for kindergarten-grade 2

• Comparison Transition Tools for kindergarten-grade 2 show many commonalities between GLEs and new standards at these grades

• There are areas of increased rigor in each grade• Reviewing Transition Tools can help K-2 teachers

understand what no longer needs to be taught and what is new (do not keep doing what was done in the past!)

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Implementation Challenge

• How to transition to the new set of standards, which represent an increase in rigor from the Grade Level Expectations

• How to make sure students are still prepared for the Standards Based Assessments in the spring of 2014• New standards often 1-3 grade levels ahead of the Grade

Level Expectations• Many GLE standards not in the new standards but will be

assessed on the SBAs in spring of 2014

• And prepare students for SBAC assessments in spring of 2015

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Replace Two GLE Strands with Two Domains for Gr. 3-8 in 2013-2014

• Comparison Tools show Numeration and Estimation and Computation GLEs are generally closely aligned with • Number and Operations in Base Ten and Number and Operations

—Fractions domains for grades 3-5• Ratios and Proportional Relationships and Number System for

grades domains for 6-7• Number System and Expressions and Equations domains for

grade 8

• Students continue to be taught the Measurement, Functions and Relationships, Geometry, and Statistics and Probabilities GLEs in the first year of implementation so they will be ready for the spring of 2014 SBAs

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Transition Takes Place over Two Years

• Teaching the rest of the GLE strands the first year assures that students will also be learning the skills assessed on the SBAs but not included in the new standards

• Higher rigor is “scaffolded” over two years for students• Phased-in implementation also gives educators time to

become familiar with the new standards and find aligned material (EED has Material Review Tools to help districts select aligned material)

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Transition Takes Place over Two Years

• Teaching the rest of the GLE strands the first year assures that students will also be learning the skills assessed on the SBAs but not included in the new standards

• Higher rigor is “scaffolded” over two years for students• Phased-in implementation also gives educators time to

become familiar with the new standards and find aligned material (EED has Material Review Tools to help districts select aligned material)

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Implementation Table

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Teaching Two New Domains Will Require a Shift in Instructional Practices

• New standards are not only often at a higher grade level than the GLEs but they also have a different instructional focus from the GLEs• For example, in grade 3, students need to develop a deep

understanding of fractions, especially as represented on a number line

• Next few slides will show how transition would look like for grade 3

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Transition Challenge for Grade 3

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Teach Two New Grade 3 Domains in 2013-2014

The Number and Operations in Base Ten (NBT) domain replaces the Estimation and Computation GLEs strand. These NBT standards are at higher grade levels than the grade 3 E&C GLEs. The GLEs also do not have an equivalent focus on Number and Operations in Base Ten that the new standards do.

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The Number and Operations—Fractions (NF)

domain replaces the Numeration

GLE strand. 3.NF.1 and 3.NF.3 are

closely aligned to two Numeration GLEs, but about

half the NF standards have no similar GLEs. This represents a new focus for what students need to know.

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This new focus on fractions is a critical element of the new standards.

Grade 4 in the 2014-2015 School Year

• All GLEs are replaced by the new mathematics standards

• Grade 4 students in year two of implementation have gained a solid understanding of two domains of the new standards in grade 3

• Grade 4 students have to learn Operations and Algebraic Thinking (and remaining domains) at the rigor required by the new standards but are ready for the rigor of the grade 4 Number and Operations in Base Ten and Number and Operations—Fractions• This is the “scaffolding” of the higher rigor of the new standards

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Implementation Plan for Grades 4-8

• Implementation pattern continues in grades 4-8• Replace Numeration and Estimation and Computation GLE

strands with two domains from new standards in 2013-2014 as shown in the implementation table

• Professional development on Standards for Mathematical Practice needs to be part of the implementation plan

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Many District Decisions To Be Made

• This implementation plan presents one way of implementing new standards

• Comparison Transition Tools can be useful to help frame the work of implementing new standards

• Some examples of district decisions for implementing new standards:• Are there implementation goals not addressed by this plan that the

district wants to set? Such as setting fluency goals for multiplication and division at grade 3? (See next slide.)

• Ratios and Proportional Relationships domain at grades 6 and 7 represent a new focus; what needs to be done to teach this domain in the 2013-2014 school year?

• How can Expressions and Equations be implemented at grade 8? This is a large jump from the GLEs and teachers must ensure that students have the foundational skills to learn these standards.

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Expected Fluencies for New Standards

This table makes note of all the “fluency” expectations in the new standards. The transition plan does not address multiply/divide at grade 3 in the first year because the Operations and Algebraic Thinking domain would be implemented the second year. So districts may want to set a fluency goal for multiplication and division for grade 3 in the first year of implementation.

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Resources for Implementation

• Alaska Standards Toolkit at https://education.alaska.gov/standards/toolkit.html

• Alaska Comparison Transition Tools at https://education.alaska.gov/tls/assessment/2012comparison.html

• Alaska Material Review Tools at https://education.alaska.gov/standards/cai02a.html

• Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) at http://www.smarterbalanced.org/

• SBAC Content Specifications for Mathematics at http://www.smarterbalanced.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Math-Content-Specifications.pdf

• SBAC sample mathematics items at http://sampleitems.smarterbalanced.org/itempreview/sbac/index.htm

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