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AIMS to PARCC Transition - 2 views

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shared by Tracy Watanabe on 30 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Tracy Watanabe on 30 Jul 12
     
    "Dear Arizona Educator,   In an effort to foster the successful transition to Arizona's Common Core Standards and the PARCC assessment, the Arizona Department of Education is providing the following information regarding the Spring 2013 and 2014 AIMS assessments and the changes that are necessary to effectively transition to the PARCC assessment.   Changes to the Spring 2013 and 2014 AIMS Assessments Although the AIMS assessment will remain the same concerning the blueprints and format, the passages and items will have several changes as outlined below.  The focus of the AIMS test will be to move closer to the expectations of the PARCC assessment. --------------------- Passages In order to prepare for the expected rigor of the PARCC passages, the AIMS passages will contain an increase in text complexity as well as higher Lexile levels.  The language used will have sophisticated text, both qualitatively and quantitatively. Items Many of the AIMS items are written at the Concept level, allowing for multiple Performance Objectives within a Concept to be addressed in a single item.  The item's complexity will be raised through selecting items at the Depth of Knowledge (DOK) levels of 2 and 3. Please note the attachment - Webb's Depth of Knowledge Levels (Table 1) and Hess' Cognitive Rigor Matrix (Table 2). To further support the transition from the AIMS assessment to the PARCC assessment, the test items have been aligned to the 2003 (Reading), 2004 (Writing), and 2008 (Mathematics) Standards as well as to Arizona's Common Core Standards for Mathematics and Language Arts. -----------------------   Transitioning to Arizona's Common Core Standards and the PARCC Assessment Since Arizona's Common Core Standards are the building blocks of the PARCC assessment, the following documents are provided to help make the transition a little smoother from the old standards/AIMS assessment to the new Common Core Standards/PARCC assessment.  The English Languag
Tracy Watanabe

Connected Learning: 'ENGAGED' on Vimeo - 2 views

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  • Tracy Watanabe on 07 May 13
     
    Awesome video about student engagement (and rigor that goes with that). In my mind, it goes back to the student-centered task -- the evidence of learning. Powerful statements in the video are: What's wrong with education is we think of end results, content we have to chung and plug, with deadlines. We plan our calendars in the summers before we even get the kids in our classrooms. It's as if the kids don't matter. Engagement is what matters. Is the kid engaged? What is the learning experience we want the kid to have? -- SO, it starts with the kid (instead of the outcome). Make room for curiosity. In the traditional classroom, there's not time for curiosity, inquiry, ... Take the time to fail, risk to innovate, be curious, inquire, and LEARN! Have a passion for learning! Hook the kids to want to learn! Engage them! "Content is the context for participating." -- What do we want kids participating in? -- Connect the content with student task. = Engagement
Tracy Watanabe

Testing to, and Beyond, the Common Core | Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Edu... - 0 views

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shared by Tracy Watanabe on 20 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • the push is now to implement next-generation learning goals that encourage higher-order thinking skills.
  • A critical piece in this roadmap will be new assessments, which have the potential to give school leaders new and better tools to guide instruction, support teachers, and improve outcomes. Assessment decisions will have a big impact on principals, who know the difference between leading a school constrained by punitively used tests that fail to measure many of the most important learning goals, and a school that uses thoughtful assessments to measure what matters and inform instruction.
  • Become part of a new accountability system that replaces the old test-and-punish philosophy with one that aims to assess, support, and improve. Tests should be used not to allocate sanctions, but to provide information, in conjunction with other indicators, to guide educational improvement.
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  • some schools, districts, and states are developing more robust performance tasks and portfolios as part of multiple-measure systems of assessment.
  • In addition to CCSS-aligned consortia exams, multiple measures could include: Classroom-administered performance tasks (e.g., research papers, science investigations, mathematical solutions, engineering designs, arts performances); Portfolios of writing samples, art works, or other learning products; Oral presentations and scored discussions; and Teacher rating of student note-taking skills, collaboration skills, persistence with challenging tasks, and other evidence of learning skills.
  • How can we engage students in assessments that measure higher order thinking and performance skills—and use these to transform practice? How can these assessments be used to help students become independent learners, and help teachers learn about how their students learn? How can teachers be enabled to collect evidence of student learning that captures the most important goals they are pursuing, and then to analyze and reflect on this evidence—individually and collectively— to continually improve their teaching? What is the range of measures we believe could capture the educational goals we care about in our school? How could we use these to illustrate and extend our progress and successes as a school?
  • Tracy Watanabe on 20 Mar 14
     
    this was written by Linda Darling-Hammond, a Stanford University professor
Tracy Watanabe

SBE-Adopted ELA/ELD Framework Chapters - Curriculum Frameworks (CA Dept of Education) - 0 views

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  • Tracy Watanabe on 08 Sep 14
     
    "State Board of Education (SBE)-Adopted ELA/ELD Framework Chapters"
Tracy Watanabe

From Common Core Standards to Curriculum: Five Big Ideas by Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins - 2 views

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  • Tracy Watanabe on 25 Sep 12
     
    Big Idea # 1 - The Common Core Standards have new emphases and require a careful reading. Big Idea # 2 - Standards are not curriculum. Big Idea # 3 - Standards need to be "unpacked." When working with the Common Core, we recommend that educators "unpack" them into four broad categories - 1) Long term Transfer Goals, 2) Overarching Understandings, 3)  Overarching Essential Questions, and 4) a set of recurring Cornerstone Tasks. Big Idea # 4 - A coherent curriculum is mapped backwards from desired performances. Big Idea #5 - The Standards come to life through the assessments.
anonymous

Keyboarding tools to support CC stds! From Common Core and Educational Technology: - 1 views

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  • anonymous on 06 Mar 13
     
    Here's our latest post on web-based keyboarding tools that support the Common Core. Please take a look and give us feedback. We're a new site with a goal to address ed tech tools that support Common Core.
anonymous

Thursday 3/14 is Pi Day! From Common Core and Educational Technology - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 10 Mar 13
     
    2013 Pi Day is coming up 3/14. Here are some sites with fun and relevant class activities from our recently started blog supporting Common Core and Ed Tech. Please take a look at the site and provide any feedback! Thanks,
Tracy Watanabe

DigitalLiteracyCCSS.pdf - 0 views

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shared by Tracy Watanabe on 20 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Tracy Watanabe on 20 Mar 13
     
    Blogging addresses these digital literacy CCSS -- especially the "production and distribution" Originally found at http://education584.blogspot.com/2013/03/kidblog-keeps-getting-better.html
Tracy Watanabe

A new look at classroom activities and methods - The Miami County Republic: Education - 0 views

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  • The rigor and approach of the Common Core standards schools are adapting to is requiring teachers to reexamine not just the content they teach but the way they teach.
  • What I like about Common Core is it’s focused just as much on how we teach as what we teach
  • And while teachers are having to step up and incorporate new methods into their classrooms, they’re also having to step back and let students figure out concepts on their own.
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  • “I think your teacher will be more of a facilitator,” Pam Best, USD 416 assistant superintendent, said. “I would even hope that they would encourage the students to learn from each other. That’s the movement. That’s where we’re going.”
  • Fouraker is referring to Bloom’s Taxonomy, which describes the depths at which people think. Currently, schools often focus on lower-order thinking, like knowledge, comprehension and application. What flip classrooms allow teachers to do is get into higher-order thinking – anaylsis, synthesis and evaluation – by engaging in interactive projects.
Tracy Watanabe

Exactly What The Common Core Standards Say About Technology - 0 views

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shared by Tracy Watanabe on 13 May 13 - No Cached
  • Tracy Watanabe on 13 May 13
     
    "The Common Core standards don't just suggest novel technology use as a way to "engage students," but rather requires learners to make complex decisions about how, when, and why to use technology-something educators must do as well."
Tracy Watanabe

Odell Education | Resources - Odell Education - 2 views

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  • Tracy Watanabe on 02 Jun 13
     
    The one sample lesson I looked at was very complete. Worth looking at.
Tracy Watanabe

Tips For Grading Students With The Common Core - 0 views

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  • Tracy Watanabe on 19 Apr 13
     
    "Lesson Objective Assess learning using the Common Core Standards Length 1 min Questions to Consider How does the Common Core help Ms. Wu communicate with families and students? How could you educate families about the Common Core Standards? What can you learn from Ms. Wu about using the Common Core during planning and assessment?"
Tracy Watanabe

Educators Evaluating Quality Instructional Products | Achieve - 1 views

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shared by Tracy Watanabe on 29 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Educators Evaluating Quality Instructional Products (EQuIP) is a collaborative of ADP Network states that are focused on increasing the supply of quality instructional materials that are aligned to the Common Core State Standards and available for instruction in elementary, middle, and high school classrooms. 
  • Tracy Watanabe on 29 Apr 13
     
    As we think about how to evaluate progress, I wonder about rubrics such as this. More importantly, I think about the Analyzing Students' Work, Thinking, and Learning Analysis Tool we created at the beginning of this school year. -- I heard Heidi Hayes Jacobs refer to this in a recent webinar I watched of her. 
Tracy Watanabe

Removing Barriers and Educational Technology | The Principal of Change - 1 views

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shared by Tracy Watanabe on 04 May 13 - No Cached
  • How is technology changing the face and pace of K-12 education?  Information is abundant and as Daniel Pink discusses in his latest book, it is not about accessing information, but about curating it. When you have access to all of the information in the world, there is obviously some great stuff, and some stuff that is of a poor quality. How are students critical of what they see, and how do they reflect and share? Too many schools are worried about students “googling” answers on test because that would make them “cheaters”, yet as adults, we would be considered resourceful if we did the same thing. What we do with the information is much more important now than simply finding it. We need to look at how students are not only consumers of information, but creators of content as well. That is where the real learning happens and technology gives us the opportunity to be able to share easily with the entire world
  • Tracy Watanabe on 04 May 13
     
    This is so right on -- and reminds me of two Common Core Standards also: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.7 Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.1 AND CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.8 Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism. They must be able to currate to do these! -- My recommendation is to get the students on Diigo (where they can create collaborative annotative bibliographies!)
Theresa Bartholomew

Common Core in Specific Content Areas - 1 views

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  • Theresa Bartholomew on 18 Apr 12
     
    Video clips for specific content areas: business/IT/marketing, Engineering & Technology, Family and Consumer Science, Fine Arts, Health & Wellness, History/Social Studies, Physical Education, Science, Trade & Industrial
Tracy Watanabe

Education Week: What Does It Mean to Be a Good School Leader? - 0 views

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shared by Tracy Watanabe on 14 May 12 - No Cached
  • Successful principals help teachers improve their individual practice, whether they are new or veteran.
  • hese principals gauge what their teachers need and arrange for the appropriate support. They assign mentor teachers; they send in instructional coaches or more-accomplished teachers to teach model lessons; they or their delegates observe instruction frequently and offer suggestions; and they meet with teachers regularly to look at student data, discuss relevant research, and explore options for their classrooms.
  • Successful principals work with groups of teachers to find patterns of instruction within grade levels and departments.
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  • Successful principals identify schoolwide needs and plan professional learning to develop collective expertise.
  • This sounds simple, but it means that educators must see that student failure requires a change in their practice. It takes leadership to help teachers take on the burden of student failure, look it squarely in the eye, and ask, “What can we do differently?” rather than declare, “These students are helpless” or think quietly to themselves, “I am a bad teacher.” For teachers to be able to do this, they need clear expectations from their principal and the opportunity to develop a professional practice through collaboration with colleagues.
  • Good principals understand that no individual teacher can possibly have all the necessary content knowledge, pedagogical skill, and familiarity with his or her students to be successful 100 percent of the time with all of those students. Good principals know that it is only by pooling the knowledge and skills of their teachers, encouraging collaboration, and focusing on continual improvement that students and their teachers will have the opportunity to be successful.
  • For that reason, successful principals take very concrete steps to support teachers: • They build schoolwide master schedules carefully to make sure that instructional time is not interrupted and that teachers have time to work and plan together during the school day. • They ensure that such collaboration time is spent in ways that will have the biggest instructional payoff:
  • They establish schoolwide routines and discipline processes so that time is not squandered on behavioral problems
  • They model what they want to see.
  • They monitor the work of everyone in the school to ensure that no teacher or staff member shirks responsibility while others are working their hearts out.
  • Above all, they help teachers step back from the “daily-ness of teaching” by providing the evaluative eye that allows teachers to think deeply about whether they are getting the most effect for their efforts.
  • This kind of leadership is a long way from the traditional model of the principal as a building manager, and few principals have been trained this way. But if we want schools that prepare all children for productive citizenship, this is the leadership we need.
  • Tracy Watanabe on 14 May 12
     
    While this article focuses on principal leadership, it is exactly the type of leadership we want for our transitioning into the Common Core.
Tracy Watanabe

Login to upgrade lexile reader to Educator's account - 1 views

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  • Tracy Watanabe on 10 Jul 12
     
    Educators can upgrade their accounts here
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What should districts (states) do with PARCC? « PARCC in Massachusetts - 0 views

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shared by Tracy Watanabe on 13 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • These tests will be different and not solely because of the technology, but a look in this direction is enough to start thinking more deeply about how different these assessments will be
  • 1.  ONPAR (Obtaining Necessary Parity through Academic Rigor) from the University of Wisconsin. 2. CBAL (Cognitively Based Assessment of, for, and as Learning) from Educational Testing Services (ETS). 3.  Research conducted at Shell Centre for Mathematical Education at the University of Nottingham.
  • PARCC is developing a comprehensive system of five assessments;
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  • States that choose to adopt PARCC and replace their already existing statewide assessments in the coming years will only be required to administer two components for accountability purposes.  These two assessments, the performance based assessment (PBA) and the end of year assessment (EOY), will be “free” to districts
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