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Standards Prioritization and Deconstruction

Facilitated Discussion and Work Session

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Alliance Charter Academy

Fall 2022

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• Understand what prioritized standards are and why they are important
• Determine priority standards for your content area articulated across grade levels
• Continue the implementation plan to move towards guaranteed and viable across K-12
• Provide a guided practice to deconstruct priority standards
• Provide opportunities to ask and answer questions

OBJECTIVES FOR THE DAY

Check in!

Tell your elbow partner what is the worst way you have had to spend money as an adult...barring medical expenses!

Who is in the Room?

You are ten years old, playing outside. It’s 100 degrees outside and your adult brings out a handful of these. Which one are you grabbing?

Proposed Norms and Expectations

• Pull your own learning wagon.
• Remember the two ears, one mouth rule.
• Recognize we are all here for the same reason... students!
• Work thoughtfully, yet efficiently by using your decision rule consistently.
• Manage expectations around consensus.

Decision Rule and Roles

As a team please determine who will:

• Facilitate your conversation and look for consensus (call for a fist to five vote)
• Keep time for your team to ensure you keep the discussion moving forward
• Record prioritization on the final copy of your standards

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Why Prioritize Standards?

• Time constraints
• Surface vs. deep instruction
• Common assessments
• Builds on previous work

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Use of Resources

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1. Use past resources as a point of reference
2. Remember the goal is collaboration to create something better (not your idea vs. my idea)
3. Know that compromise will be required

What Are Priority Standards?

What are Power (Priority) Standards and why do we need them?

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Remember…

Criteria for Prioritization

Five part criteria for selecting priority standards:

• Teacher Intuition
• Readiness
• Endurance
• Assessment
• Leverage

Process for Prioritizing Standards

Horizontal Prioritization

• Individual
• Grade/course consensus
• Record and post/share

Vertical Prioritization

• Review all grades/courses prioritization
• Look for gaps, redundancies, imbalance
• Discuss and make revisions

Horizontal Prioritization

Individually:

• Using criteria highlight the standards you propose to be prioritized
• Don’t linger… apply criteria and move on!
• Try to limit your selection to <30% of your standards

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“If everything is important, nothing is important”

Patrick Lencioni

Horizontal Prioritization

Grade/Course Discussion:

• Each person shares their individual prioritization
• Discuss and use decision rule to come to consensus on recommended prioritization
• Limit your prioritized list to <50% of standards
• Record on a clean set of standards

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Time for a Break

Checking In On Our Learning

If you vote a 2 or below… more discussion is needed. Ask for one of us to help.

5 - highest 3 - neutral 0 - lowest

Vertical Prioritization

Review your K-12 partners’ recommendations. Reflect and make notes, then we will discuss.

• Are there gaps?
• Are there redundancies?
• Does something seem out of balance?
• Too many? Not enough?

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Lunch Break

Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum

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Table Talk Review:

What is it and how do we get there?

The Why?

“A guaranteed and viable curriculum is the single most important initiative a school or district can engage in to raise student achievement.”

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What Works in Schools: �Translating Research into Practice

Marzano, 2003

Your School More Than Any Other!

Roadmaps to Learning

Some Light Reading

https://corwin-connect.com/2017/10/teacher-clarity-collective-teacher-efficacy/

As, you read the article, choose a word, phrase and sentence that stands out to you.

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Share what you chose with your table and decide on a word, phrase and sentence to share out to the whole group!

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Teacher clarity starts with understanding the

standards . . . TOGETHER!

What is Deconstruction?

The process teams engage in to build clarity about the standard through collaboration by breaking it down into student-friendly learning targets.

Deconstructing Standards

1. Write down the FULL standard.
2. What is the type of target?
1. (Knowledge, Reasoning, Skills, Product, Disposition)
3. What are the nouns? (Define as needed)
4. What are the verbs? (Define as needed)
5. What are the Knowledge Targets that underpin the reasoning?
6. What are the Reasoning Targets?* Skills?* Products?*
7. Write targets in student-friendly language

Types of Learning Targets

Record key words and sketch to remember

• Knowledge Targets: Factual information, procedural knowledge, and conceptual understandings underpinning each discipline
• Reasoning Targets: Thought processes students are to learn to do well within a range of subjects
• Skill Targets: Demonstration or physical skill-based performance is at the heart of the learning
• Product Targets: Where creation of a product is the focus of the learning. Specifications for quality of the product itself are the focus of teaching and assessment
• Disposition Targets: Attitudes, motivations, and interests that affect students’ approach to learning

Five Types of Learning Targets

• If a standard is knowledge, then…
• If a standard is reasoning, then…
• If a standard is a skill, then…
• If a standard is a product, then…

As You Deconstruct Standards

Note: Disposition can both stand alone or be paired with any other target type

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Remember If...Then...

Target Type Practice

Using the targets in the envelope, sort them into the 5 types of targets.

Time for a Break

Time to Practice

1. Write down the FULL standard
2. What is the Type of Target?

(Knowledge, Reasoning, Skills, Product, Disposition)

• What are the Nouns? (Define as needed)
• What are the Verbs? (Define as needed)�Note: The next steps will depend on the target type. Remember the arrow!
• What are the Knowledge Targets that underpin the reasoning?
• What are the Reasoning Targets?* Skills?* Products?*
• Write Targets in Student Friendly Language

Check Yourself

Don’t burn out… you can use your resources to see if you missed anything.

Make sure the full standard is covered!

Google Chaos

The deconstructing template is a scaffold for breaking down the standard into student friendly learning targets.

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https://bit.ly/ACA_Deconstruction

https://bit.ly/ACApriorities

Deconstruction Standards

1. Write down the FULL standard.
2. What is the type of target?
1. (Knowledge, Reasoning, Skills, Product, Disposition)
3. What are the nouns? (Define as needed)
4. What are the verbs? (Define as needed)
5. What are the Knowledge Targets that underpin the reasoning?
6. What are the Reasoning Targets?* Skills?* Products?*
7. Write targets in student-friendly language

Next Steps

• Deconstruct and create your learning targets for each priority standard with your PLC.

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• Make a plan for who is responsible for which standards/learning targets and communicate that plan!

Next Steps

• If you did not finish prioritization, finish that during PLC time and then turn it into Rosemary.

• We will be back to teach deconstruction during a PLC soon!

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Resources

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