Making the Common Core Standards Work
Using Professional Development to Build World-Class Schools
Richard J. Hawkins
- Greenville, South Carolina, USA
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Essential reading for school leaders!
With the Common Core State Standards adopted by the vast majority of U.S. states, educators face the challenge of translating the standards into successful, positive change within schools. Written for school leaders, this practical guide offers a blueprint for implementing and exceeding the new standards using very targeted professional development.
Readers will find realistic strategies supported by examples from a diverse range of schools. Topics include
- Empowering teachers and staff as partners in planning for and implementing the new standards
- Adapting existing curriculum to meet goals for mathematics and language arts at each grade level
- Designing assessments that measure mastery of the standards
- Ensuring that the standards benefit learning for all students, including multicultural learners
Lead your school or district in fulfilling the promise of the Common Core State Standards and preparing students for a competitive global economy.
"This book looks at the implementation of CCSS within the context of all of the components that face public schools, and, in doing so, puts the CCSS in a proper perspective. This is a book that could actually help make a difference in the improvement of instruction in the public schools."
—Martin J. Hudacs, Superintendent
Solanco School District, Quarryville, PA
"Making the Common Core Standards Work provides a detailed approach to systems thinking and how to manage a real-life paradigm shift."
—William Richard Hall, Jr., Principal
R. C. Longan Elementary School, Henrico, VA
Contents
Dedication
Dedication
Foreword by Dan Domenech
Foreword by Dan Domenech
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
About the Authors
Introduction: Why American Schools Must Move Toward Common Core State Standards
Introduction: Why American Schools Must Move Toward Common Core State Standards
Section I. Designing Competitive Curriculum for a Global Economy
- 1. Common Core State Standards: What Are They?
- Common Core State Standards: More Than Standards With an International Flavor
- A Quick Trip Around the World
- Moving Forward
- 2. The School Leader's Role in Making the Common Core State Standards Work
- Creating Guiding Ideas to Implement the Common Core State Standards
- Guiding Ideas and Evidence
- Getting to How: Operationalizing Your Guiding Ideas
- Identifying the Innovation
- Teaching the Change
- The Social and Emotional Literacy Components of the Common Core State Standards
- School Leaders and Teachers Partner to Help Students
- Inspiring Trust, Creativity, Transparency, and Success: A Framework for Loose Versus Tight Leadership
- Part I: Building Understanding About the Issue and Its Impact on Your Organization
- Part II: Moving From Understanding to Action
Section II. Helping Communities Create a New Future
- 3. Designing Local Curriculum to Absorb the Common Core State Standards in English
- Real-World Applications
- Grades K-2, Phonological Awareness (One Topic)
- Grades K-2: Key Ideas and Details and Craft and Structure
- Grades 3-4: Fluency (One Topic)
- Grade 5: Reading With Fluency and Accuracy
- Grades 6-8: Key Ideas and Details (One Topic)
- Grades 9-10: English Language Arts Curriculum
- Grades 11-12: Reading and Writing
- 4. Designing Local Curriculum to Absorb the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics
- Comparison of State and Common Core State Math Standard Emphasis
- Common Core State Math Standards
- Kindergarten Common Core State Standard and Local Curriculum Math Standards
- Grade 1 Common Core State Standard and Local Curriculum Math Standards
- Grade 2 Common Core State Standard and Local Curriculum Math Standards
- Grade 5 Common Core State Standard and Local Curriculum Math Standards
- Six Domains of Instructional Strategies for All Students
- Purpose of the Math Common Core
- Grade 7 Common Core State Math Standards: Ratios and Proportional Relationships
- Grades 9-10 Common Core State Math Standards: The Real Number System
- Grade 10 Common Core State Math Standards for Geometry: Congruence
- Grade 12 Common Core State Math Standards for Statistics: Using Probability to Make Decisions
- 5. Challenges to the Implementation of Rigorous Common Core State Standards
- Testing Policies Do Not Improve Schools
- The Common Core State Standards: Opportunities for Equity and Excellence
Section III. Helping Teachers Redefine Their Profession
- 6. How to Assess Mastery of the Common Core Curriculum State Standards
- Direct Instruction
- The Power of Formative Assessments
- Formative Assessment Examples From Real Schools
- Building Successful Schools
- Special Education and General Education
- 7. The Leadership Challenge: Creating Common Understandings of the Common Core State Standards
- The Role of School Leaders
- Envisioning Excellence
- We Get the Results We Design Schools to Achieve
- Vision or Nightmare?
- Enter the Common Core State Standards
- 8. Dialogue: Providing Opportunity So Facts Influence Opinions
- Creating Context for the Common Core State Standards
- Teachers Need Deep Understanding of the Common Core State Standards
- Identifying Gaps: Current Versus Desired Reality
Section IV. Creating Systems That Accelerate Learning for All
- 9. Multicultural Issues That Teachers and School Leaders Must Face Beyond the Common Core State Standards
- Common Core State Standards Lift Us Beyond Difference
- What All Teachers and School Leaders Need to Know About Multiculturalism
- Grouping and Labeling Students
- Building a Multicultural Learning Community
- 10. An Effective Intervention in Schools That Improves Instruction and Learning
- Creating Sustainable Change in Struggling Schools
- Leaders Create the Context and Design for Change to Succeed
- Homework
- Student Work and Deficit Assumptions
- Focus Groups
- School Leaders
- Parent Involvement
- Students
- Changing Public Mental Models About School Reform
- 11. Public Policy: Helpful and Harmful
References
References
Index
Index
Additional materials
Description
Essential reading for school leaders!
With the Common Core State Standards adopted by the vast majority of U.S. states, educators face the challenge of translating the standards into successful, positive change within schools. Written for school leaders, this practical guide offers a blueprint for implementing and exceeding the new standards using very targeted professional development.
Readers will find realistic strategies supported by examples from a diverse range of schools. Topics include
- Empowering teachers and staff as partners in planning for and implementing the new standards
- Adapting existing curriculum to meet goals for mathematics and language arts at each grade level
- Designing assessments that measure mastery of the standards
- Ensuring that the standards benefit learning for all students, including multicultural learners
Lead your school or district in fulfilling the promise of the Common Core State Standards and preparing students for a competitive global economy.
"This book looks at the implementation of CCSS within the context of all of the components that face public schools, and, in doing so, puts the CCSS in a proper perspective. This is a book that could actually help make a difference in the improvement of instruction in the public schools."
—Martin J. Hudacs, Superintendent
Solanco School District, Quarryville, PA
"Making the Common Core Standards Work provides a detailed approach to systems thinking and how to manage a real-life paradigm shift."
—William Richard Hall, Jr., Principal
R. C. Longan Elementary School, Henrico, VA
Contents
Dedication
Dedication
Foreword by Dan Domenech
Foreword by Dan Domenech
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
About the Authors
Introduction: Why American Schools Must Move Toward Common Core State Standards
Introduction: Why American Schools Must Move Toward Common Core State Standards
Section I. Designing Competitive Curriculum for a Global Economy
- 1. Common Core State Standards: What Are They?
- Common Core State Standards: More Than Standards With an International Flavor
- A Quick Trip Around the World
- Moving Forward
- 2. The School Leader's Role in Making the Common Core State Standards Work
- Creating Guiding Ideas to Implement the Common Core State Standards
- Guiding Ideas and Evidence
- Getting to How: Operationalizing Your Guiding Ideas
- Identifying the Innovation
- Teaching the Change
- The Social and Emotional Literacy Components of the Common Core State Standards
- School Leaders and Teachers Partner to Help Students
- Inspiring Trust, Creativity, Transparency, and Success: A Framework for Loose Versus Tight Leadership
- Part I: Building Understanding About the Issue and Its Impact on Your Organization
- Part II: Moving From Understanding to Action
Section II. Helping Communities Create a New Future
- 3. Designing Local Curriculum to Absorb the Common Core State Standards in English
- Real-World Applications
- Grades K-2, Phonological Awareness (One Topic)
- Grades K-2: Key Ideas and Details and Craft and Structure
- Grades 3-4: Fluency (One Topic)
- Grade 5: Reading With Fluency and Accuracy
- Grades 6-8: Key Ideas and Details (One Topic)
- Grades 9-10: English Language Arts Curriculum
- Grades 11-12: Reading and Writing
- 4. Designing Local Curriculum to Absorb the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics
- Comparison of State and Common Core State Math Standard Emphasis
- Common Core State Math Standards
- Kindergarten Common Core State Standard and Local Curriculum Math Standards
- Grade 1 Common Core State Standard and Local Curriculum Math Standards
- Grade 2 Common Core State Standard and Local Curriculum Math Standards
- Grade 5 Common Core State Standard and Local Curriculum Math Standards
- Six Domains of Instructional Strategies for All Students
- Purpose of the Math Common Core
- Grade 7 Common Core State Math Standards: Ratios and Proportional Relationships
- Grades 9-10 Common Core State Math Standards: The Real Number System
- Grade 10 Common Core State Math Standards for Geometry: Congruence
- Grade 12 Common Core State Math Standards for Statistics: Using Probability to Make Decisions
- 5. Challenges to the Implementation of Rigorous Common Core State Standards
- Testing Policies Do Not Improve Schools
- The Common Core State Standards: Opportunities for Equity and Excellence
Section III. Helping Teachers Redefine Their Profession
- 6. How to Assess Mastery of the Common Core Curriculum State Standards
- Direct Instruction
- The Power of Formative Assessments
- Formative Assessment Examples From Real Schools
- Building Successful Schools
- Special Education and General Education
- 7. The Leadership Challenge: Creating Common Understandings of the Common Core State Standards
- The Role of School Leaders
- Envisioning Excellence
- We Get the Results We Design Schools to Achieve
- Vision or Nightmare?
- Enter the Common Core State Standards
- 8. Dialogue: Providing Opportunity So Facts Influence Opinions
- Creating Context for the Common Core State Standards
- Teachers Need Deep Understanding of the Common Core State Standards
- Identifying Gaps: Current Versus Desired Reality
Section IV. Creating Systems That Accelerate Learning for All
- 9. Multicultural Issues That Teachers and School Leaders Must Face Beyond the Common Core State Standards
- Common Core State Standards Lift Us Beyond Difference
- What All Teachers and School Leaders Need to Know About Multiculturalism
- Grouping and Labeling Students
- Building a Multicultural Learning Community
- 10. An Effective Intervention in Schools That Improves Instruction and Learning
- Creating Sustainable Change in Struggling Schools
- Leaders Create the Context and Design for Change to Succeed
- Homework
- Student Work and Deficit Assumptions
- Focus Groups
- School Leaders
- Parent Involvement
- Students
- Changing Public Mental Models About School Reform
- 11. Public Policy: Helpful and Harmful
References
References
Index
Index
Additional materials
Reviews
Making the Common Core Standards Work
Using Professional Development to Build World-Class Schools
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Essential reading for school leaders!
With the Common Core State Standards adopted by the vast majority of U.S. states, educators face the challenge of translating the standards into successful, positive change within schools. Written for school leaders, this practical guide offers a blueprint for implementing and exceeding the new standards using very targeted professional development.
Readers will find realistic strategies supported by examples from a diverse range of schools. Topics include
- Empowering teachers and staff as partners in planning for and implementing the new standards
- Adapting existing curriculum to meet goals for mathematics and language arts at each grade level
- Designing assessments that measure mastery of the standards
- Ensuring that the standards benefit learning for all students, including multicultural learners
Lead your school or district in fulfilling the promise of the Common Core State Standards and preparing students for a competitive global economy.
"This book looks at the implementation of CCSS within the context of all of the components that face public schools, and, in doing so, puts the CCSS in a proper perspective. This is a book that could actually help make a difference in the improvement of instruction in the public schools."
—Martin J. Hudacs, Superintendent
Solanco School District, Quarryville, PA
"Making the Common Core Standards Work provides a detailed approach to systems thinking and how to manage a real-life paradigm shift."
—William Richard Hall, Jr., Principal
R. C. Longan Elementary School, Henrico, VA
Table Of Contents:
- Dedication
- Foreword by Dan Domenech
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Introduction: Why American Schools Must Move Toward Common Core State Standards
- Section I. Designing Competitive Curriculum for a Global Economy
- 1. Common Core State Standards: What Are They?
- Common Core State Standards: More Than Standards With an International Flavor
- A Quick Trip Around the World
- Moving Forward
- 2. The School Leader's Role in Making the Common Core State Standards Work
- Creating Guiding Ideas to Implement the Common Core State Standards
- Guiding Ideas and Evidence
- Getting to How: Operationalizing Your Guiding Ideas
- Identifying the Innovation
- Teaching the Change
- The Social and Emotional Literacy Components of the Common Core State Standards
- School Leaders and Teachers Partner to Help Students
- Inspiring Trust, Creativity, Transparency, and Success: A Framework for Loose Versus Tight Leadership
- Part I: Building Understanding About the Issue and Its Impact on Your Organization
- Part II: Moving From Understanding to Action
- Section II. Helping Communities Create a New Future
- 3. Designing Local Curriculum to Absorb the Common Core State Standards in English
- Real-World Applications
- Grades K-2, Phonological Awareness (One Topic)
- Grades K-2: Key Ideas and Details and Craft and Structure
- Grades 3-4: Fluency (One Topic)
- Grade 5: Reading With Fluency and Accuracy
- Grades 6-8: Key Ideas and Details (One Topic)
- Grades 9-10: English Language Arts Curriculum
- Grades 11-12: Reading and Writing
- 4. Designing Local Curriculum to Absorb the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics
- Comparison of State and Common Core State Math Standard Emphasis
- Common Core State Math Standards
- Kindergarten Common Core State Standard and Local Curriculum Math Standards
- Grade 1 Common Core State Standard and Local Curriculum Math Standards
- Grade 2 Common Core State Standard and Local Curriculum Math Standards
- Grade 5 Common Core State Standard and Local Curriculum Math Standards
- Six Domains of Instructional Strategies for All Students
- Purpose of the Math Common Core
- Grade 7 Common Core State Math Standards: Ratios and Proportional Relationships
- Grades 9-10 Common Core State Math Standards: The Real Number System
- Grade 10 Common Core State Math Standards for Geometry: Congruence
- Grade 12 Common Core State Math Standards for Statistics: Using Probability to Make Decisions
- 5. Challenges to the Implementation of Rigorous Common Core State Standards
- Testing Policies Do Not Improve Schools
- The Common Core State Standards: Opportunities for Equity and Excellence
- Section III. Helping Teachers Redefine Their Profession
- 6. How to Assess Mastery of the Common Core Curriculum State Standards
- Direct Instruction
- The Power of Formative Assessments
- Formative Assessment Examples From Real Schools
- Building Successful Schools
- Special Education and General Education
- 7. The Leadership Challenge: Creating Common Understandings of the Common Core State Standards
- The Role of School Leaders
- Envisioning Excellence
- We Get the Results We Design Schools to Achieve
- Vision or Nightmare?
- Enter the Common Core State Standards
- 8. Dialogue: Providing Opportunity So Facts Influence Opinions
- Creating Context for the Common Core State Standards
- Teachers Need Deep Understanding of the Common Core State Standards
- Identifying Gaps: Current Versus Desired Reality
- Section IV. Creating Systems That Accelerate Learning for All
- 9. Multicultural Issues That Teachers and School Leaders Must Face Beyond the Common Core State Standards
- Common Core State Standards Lift Us Beyond Difference
- What All Teachers and School Leaders Need to Know About Multiculturalism
- Grouping and Labeling Students
- Building a Multicultural Learning Community
- 10. An Effective Intervention in Schools That Improves Instruction and Learning
- Creating Sustainable Change in Struggling Schools
- Leaders Create the Context and Design for Change to Succeed
- Homework
- Student Work and Deficit Assumptions
- Focus Groups
- School Leaders
- Parent Involvement
- Students
- Changing Public Mental Models About School Reform
- 11. Public Policy: Helpful and Harmful
- References
- Index
Recent Product Reviews:
"As a busy superintendent who is very careful with her time, I’ve been searching for what seemed to be an impossible … one resource that is full of good, solid research and practical information on CCSS. Manley and Hawkins are practitioner scholars…and they created, in Making the Common Core Standards Work, exactly what I need to intelligently and confidently move my district forward …thanks!"
Roberta Gerold, Superintendent, Middle Country Schools, Centereach, NY, President Elect, Suffolk County School Superintendents Association
"Making the Common Core Standards Work provides a detailed approach to systems thinking and how to manage a real-life paradigm shift. Having that coached in the context of core standards is somewhat unique and provides an opportunity for enhanced dialogue across grade levels and disciplines in areas of the country where those discussions may not have occurred on their own."
William Richard Hall, Jr., Principal, R. C. Longan Elementary School, Henrico, VA
"Making the Common Core Standards Work looks at the implementation of CCSS within the context of all of the components that face public schools, and, in doing so, put the CCSS in a proper perspective. This is a book that could actually help make a difference in the improvement of instruction in the public schools."
Martin J. Hudacs, Superintendent, Solanco School District, Quarryville, PA
"The book is easy to read and offers concrete suggestions without establishing walls that prohibit creative practices. Making the Common Core Standards Work pushes educators to plan, reflect, and revise cooperatively to move from a traditional scripted approach of teaching to one that promotes critical thinking and analysis for all students."
Charlotte R. Bihm, Instructional Specialist, St. Landry Parish School Board, Opelousas, LA