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9-12 ELA Priority Standards and CFAs

Dr. Karen Fahy, Mariana Barry & Josh Caselli

September 9, 2020

Karen- welcome

Distinguished Educator’s report 2018-19 : Create a next generation standards ELA K-12 curriculum framework, including a scope and sequence of priority standards, Big ideas, EQs, learning targets and CFAs ; started with K-5, 6-8 then 9-12. We created a curriculum based on the priority standards, and CFAs that will give us much needed data on how our students are doing. If our state assessments are cancelled again this year, we will need a way to gather data regularly on how our kids are progressing toward proficiency of the grade level learning outcomes.

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We will record our session for your reference and for those team members unable to join today.

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Introductions

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English Teacher

mariana.barry@rcsdk12.org

Director of ELA & Reading

karen.fahy@rcsdk12.org

English Teacher

joshua.caselli@rcsdk12.org

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Team for our 9-12 work:

^Grade	^{ELA Teacher}	^{ELA Teacher}
^9-10	^{Colleen EL Bejjani- NE}	^{Karen Hardaway - YMLA}
^9-10	^{Gina Porretta-Baker- NE College Prep}	^{Sarah Huntone- #58}
^11-12	^{Susan Woodhams- SOTA}	^{Josh Caselli- Franklin Upper}
^11-12	^{Mariana Barry-SWW}	^{Aylin Rodriguez- SWW}

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Norms for Our Time Together

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RCSD ELA/Integrated Literacy Department Vision, Mission & Values

Vision

Our vision is to develop advanced literacies in ALL students. Advanced literacies represent a set of skills and competencies that enable communication, spoken and written, in increasingly diverse ways and with increasingly diverse audiences.

Mission

The mission of the RCSD Department of ELA and LIteracy K-12 is to ensure that ALL of our students possess the literacy skills necessary to be World Ready by the end of twelfth grade.

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Agenda

Participant folder overview
Learning Targets
Review, Preview, Connect- Padlet Activity
Worktime
Summarizing Evidence of Learning

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Learning Targets

I understand the importance of prioritizing content to accelerate learning by using backwards planning as it relates to the grade level Common Formative Assessments.

I understand the relationship between priority standards, common formative assessments (CFAs) and curriculum resources.

I understand the RCSD ELA Delivery Guidance Document and how it will be used to deliver high quality synchronous and asynchronous instruction.

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Instructional Learning Framework

Some Distance Learning Considerations:

Time Management
Implementation and Pedagogy (i.e. recording, synchronous/ asynchronous, small groups, etc…)

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Review, Preview, Connect

Reflection

What were the takeaways, GOOD and BAD, from our first attempts at being FULLY REMOTE? What WORKED? What DIDN’T?

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New York Times Student Op-Ed

Silent Read- Jamboard Activity

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Social Emotional/

Positive, Not Punitive

Noticings

Wonderings

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RCSD GUIDANCE FOR A DISTANCE LEARNING MODEL

Knowing Our Direction

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Reopening Academic Plan

Group 1: Best Practices for Virtual Learning… reopening guide Pages 11- 12

Group 2: Appendix table for 9-12 Content Delivery Guidance

Group 3: ELA Virtual Learning Model 9-12...reopening guide Pages 19- 20

Group 4: Assessment Strategies...reopening guide Pages 25-26

PARKING LOT

Reopening Guide

choose a note taker

choose a spokesperson

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FOCUS ON BEST PRACTICES

FOR DISTANCE LEARNING

Anchor teaching and learning in meaningful end-of-unit outcomes that relate to the real world and priority standards.

Devote asynchronous time to purposeful independent work.

Use synchronous time for collaborative tasks and to address common misconceptions.

Foster peer interaction during synchronous and asynchronous time.

Establish teacher presence, communicating regularly with students and their families.

Design assessment opportunities as close to instruction as possible.

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FINDING OUR FOCUS & PRIORITIES

Distance Learning:

Principles to Practice

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Why Prioritize Standards?

McREL identified 200 Standards and 3093 benchmark indicators in national and state level documents across 14 different subject areas

Classroom teachers estimated a need for 15,465 hours to adequately teach them all

That would require 23 years of schooling!

-Larry Ainsworth, Prioritizing the Common Core (2013)

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Priority Standards

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Supporting Standards

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Priority and Supporting Standards

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How to Prioritize

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Recognize Rigor

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PRIORITY STANDARDS - SCOPE AND SEQUENCE- ASSESSMENT - RESOURCES

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RCSD NEXT GENERATION STANDARDS BASED CURRICULUM

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Modeling Our Thinking

11-12R6 Analyze how authors employ point of view, perspective, and purpose, to shape explicit and implicit messages (e.g., persuasiveness, aesthetic quality, satire, sarcasm, irony, or understatement)

Is this a priority standard?

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Model Our Thinking... Continued

What would you identify as enduring understandings for your grade level?

Become critical readers: consider pov, purpose, perspective, what’s excluded, question the text
Understand and explain the point of view (culture, bias, experience) of the author
Become critical readers: consider pov, purpose, perspective, what’s excluded, question the text
Make connections to a variety of cultural perspectives and backgrounds, identifying various points of views

Enduring? Readiness? Leverage? External Exams?

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OUR PROCESS

Each Standard is Assessed

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xvlrPSzHHvuopSbOpkY2RN5jh-3uA8Wc0BZgOcCgrAs/edit?usp=sharing

UNITS, STANDARDS-Scope and Sequence (Enduring Understandings, Essential Questions, Learning Targets, Assessment)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xScnPELo1TYyJ6Rq95mEBVhGvD1tPY1pu8ksbHwmT4A/edit?usp=sharing

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When you think of Common Formative Assessment what comes to your mind?

POST YOUR GIF!
Then RATE OR RESPOND to one person’s GIF!

What Are the Benefits of Having

Common Formative Assessments?

ELA 12 Common Formative Assessment

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y3LcvlJ_Hu_lHwVuIsStW1DXW1nnUiLGuoNeV20zRI0/edit?usp=sharing