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Common Core Implementation
How a change in MINDSET and a SWITCH in approach can
make all the difference
Grade 6-12 Teacher AmbassadorsWednesday Evening Session
November 28, 2012
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Why are we all here?
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• You are all doing great work• As ambassadors, your job is to:
• Implement the Common Core and its instructional shifts with fidelity
• Build capacity in your colleagues to implement the Common Core
• Motivate your colleagues and stakeholders around the importance of this work
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This is hard, hard work
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• These standards are new. • It’s a lot to digest. • You’re not entirely sure what your
role as Ambassador actually means.
And you probably feel like you
shouldn’t complain.
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What kept you up last night?
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• Turn to your neighbor and share the 2-3 biggest concerns that you have about Common Core implementation
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Tonight’s Objectives
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• Think about the impact of the Common Core on students and challenge our mindset around student learning
• Learn about a framework for thinking about change and how to relate that framework to Common Core implementation
• Develop your next steps as a Common Core ambassador
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In response to philosophers who said that intelligence was a “fixed quantity” that cannot be increased, he said:
“We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism… With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment…
… and literally become more intelligent than we were
before.”
Alfred Binet (co-author of the IQ test)
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What You Need to Know
Think you can.
Smart is not something you are.
Smart is something you can get.
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averagesmart
weakness
brightcan’t
slow
easy hard
not yet
currently
performing
strengths
and needs
capable
skilled
Move from using
words like:to using words like:
FIXEDFIXED GROWTHGROWTH
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Fixed vs. Growth Mindset
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FIXEDFIXED GROWTHGROWTH
Common Core looks
hard. I can’t do this.
Common Core looks
hard. I can’t do this.
If I participate in
professional development, I can learn.
If I participate in
professional development, I can learn.
My students can’t handle
this.
My students can’t handle
this.
Everyone of my students is capable of
achieving at these levels. My job is to
get smarter at teaching this way.
Everyone of my students is capable of
achieving at these levels. My job is to
get smarter at teaching this way.
I like the way I teach. Why
change?
I like the way I teach. Why
change?
I’m learning about new
ways to teach my
subject and I’m excited
about it.
I’m learning about new
ways to teach my
subject and I’m excited
about it.
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Equation for Success
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Confidence
Effective Effort
High Expectations
Academic
Success
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Quiet Reflection: Who are your VSs, KSs, KDs?
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Very smart
Kinda smart
Kinda dumb
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Switching Gears….
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• As ambassadors, your job is to:• Implement the Common Core and its
instructional shifts with fidelity • Build capacity in your colleagues to
implement the Common Core• Motivate your colleagues and
stakeholders around the importance of this work
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Why Switch?
• Change is hard and we’re in the middle of a change process.
• To make change stick, we have to change our own behaviors and help change the behaviors of others.
• Tonight we’ll show you a framework to help you do that work. Reflecting on what you can do differently to
implement the Common Core effectivelyReflecting on what you can do to help your
colleagues implement the Common Core effectively
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Making a Switch
To effect change in ourselves and our colleagues and systems, we have to reach both the rider and the elephant.
The rational side:
The RIDER
The rational side:
The RIDER
The emotional side:
The ELEPHANT
The emotional side:
The ELEPHANT
Point to the
destination
Script the critical
moves
Find the feeling
Rally the
herd
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The Switch Framework
• Direct the rider: • tell your rider why this change is important
(point to the destination) and what, specifically, you should be doing differently (script the critical moves)
• Motivate the elephant: make your elephant feel something (find the feeling) and motivate others to change as well (rally the herd)
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Directing the Rider: Point to the Destination
• Change is easier when you know where you are going and why it’s worth it.
• It helps to identify a “destination postcard,” a picture of a future that hard work can make possible
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Are we at the destination when all third graders are reading at grade level?
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Directing the Rider: Point to the Destination
• Why do you do this work? • What does success look like for you?• What is happening in your
classroom/school that indicates that this work has been successful?
• Individually, write your destination on the front of your “postcard.”
• Share your destinations at your table.
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Directing the Rider: Script the Critical Moves
• What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity, or too many choices.
• Your rider needs focus and goals (i.e., “critical moves”) to avoid decision paralysis.
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What are Critical Moves?
•They start with the destination in mind •They articulate how people should act•They begin with an achievable first step
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Critical Moves: 1% Milk
The USDA wanted people to eat healthier, but that task seemed daunting. It decided on a critical move: Recommend consumers switch to 1% milk.
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USDA created ads showing how a glass of milk contains as much fat as three strips of bacon.
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Examples of Critical Moves
1.Identify and map out the Common Core standards you will be teaching and when next semester
2.Plan a PD session for your colleagues around the shifts and the modules
3.Review your next two units and determine what you can cut out that isn’t directly aligned to the standards
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Script Your Critical Moves
The scene: •You need to make decisions about what you are going to do over the next several months to implement the Common Core and build the capacity of your colleagues to do the same.
The activity:•On the back of your postcard, write down the first 2-3 critical moves that represent your next steps in Common Core implementation.
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Motivating the Elephant
• Find the feeling•Knowing something isn’t
enough to cause change. People need to feel something.
• Rally the herd •Behavior is contagious.
Help it spread.
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Motivating the Elephant: Rally the Herd
• Behavior is contagious: We often do things because our peers are doing them.•Overeating•Getting married, having kids•Shaking hands to greet someone•Wearing fashionable fluffy boots•Buying an iPhone
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How will you rally your herd?
You walk onto an elevator on the 30th floor of a building and find yourself standing beside a teacher who is skeptical of the new standards. The doors close. You have 1 minute until you reach the lobby.•Find a partner and develop convincing, motivating and passionate reasons why the Common Core standards are relevant and important and write them on your postcard
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Recapping….
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Move from a fixed to a growth mindset
Change!
Point to the
destination
Script the critical
moves
Find the feeling
Rally the
herd
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Next Steps
• Next week:•Use your destination postcard, your critical moves
and your elevator pitch to begin drafting your own ambassador plan
• Before the holiday break:• Share your plan with your principal/leadership team• Share your plan with your NT/NTE• Begin implementing your plan
• By the February NTI:• Refine and update your plan as needed• Bring success stories from plan implementation
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