Transitioning To Common Core

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Transitioning To Common Core

• George Loper
• Mississippi PARCC ELC
• Mississippi Common Core Steering Committee

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Todays Objectives

• What is PARCC ELC?
• Who are the Mississippi PARCC ELC?
• Why is this work so important? (CCSS and PARCC)
• How does this affect the chosen ones? (Teachers)
• How does this mesh with Apple, Google, and
  Microsoft? (Technology)
• Why are we all here? (My Kids, Our Kids, Our
  Grandchildren!!!)
• What are the responsibilities of those with Power
  Titles? (Administrators?)
• Why should you change the oil in your car?

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PARCC ELC Role

• Act as a major arm of states transition and
  implementation plans
• Become a network of instate experts on the CCSS
  and PARCC
• Be state and peer leaders around CCSS and PARCC
  implementation
• Build and expand the number of other educators
  who understand and take action and ownership for
  implementing the CCSS and PARCC Assessments

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On Site MeetingsChicago-OHare Airport

• Meeting 1, Cohort 2 August 21-23, 2012
• Meeting 2, Cohort 2 February 28-March 1, 2013
• Meeting 3, Cohort 2 October 10-11, 2013
• Meeting 4, Cohort 2 July 17-18, 2014
• Two Cohorts-12 States in each cohort
• Virtual Convenings

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Our Kids are Worth the EFFORT!

• Why are we not the best educational system in the
  world?
• Must have a nation of thinkers and doers!
• Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic
• You as teachers and educators are able to get
  back to the roots of our educational system.
  Teaching and Facilitating our students to think
  and do, not just recall!

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Teachers

1. You are the best and brightest
2. You will be able to do whatever you need to do to
   prepare our kids for college and career
3. You are better prepared than any other group in
   our state and in our country
4. You are so far ahead of teachers in other
   districts and states
5. A teacher affects eternity he can never tell
   where his influence stops.--Henry Adams,
   American journalist, historian, academic and
   novelist

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Item and Task Prototypes(Test Questions)

• Use the PARCC Online Website (www.parcconline.org)
  
• Dont get caught up in the how hard is this
  game-just see what kind of questions are being
  asked and what skills are needed to answer
  correctly
• Use the Smarter Balance Item and Task Prototypes.
  (www.smarterbalanced.org)

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Preparation

• Now-You can not wait
• Use the time you have-30 minutes to an hour a
  week during your planning time
• Reading-All of you are teachers but also
  students-use some of the time you use for
  recreational reading to read and learn about the
  CCSS.
• Videos-Hunt Institute-Engage New York-

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Technology

• Embrace the use of technology in your classroom.
• The assessments will be delivered through
  technology.
• Students will have to know how to use technology
  to perform well on the assessments.
• In order to perform at their best, students on
  these assessments must be comfortable with
  technology.

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Students

• Read
• Write
• Discuss
• Think
• DO
• Stop Whining
• Cultivate an expectation of challenges

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AdministratorsPrincipals and Central Office

• We must be students and learn what is the
  difference between the old and the new
• We must be willing to lead and take the pressure
  off the classroom teachers when the push back
  comes from students and parents
• We must be willing to educate the parents,
  community, and students as to the new
  expectations that come with CCSS
• WE must do what is best for the students! School
  is for the students not the adults!

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Change

• I can not support change just for change sake!
• I can not support change when it is not in the
  best interest of the students!
• I can not support change when it keeps teachers
  from teaching and students from learning!
• I CAN and WILL support CCSS because it is in the
  best interest of the students and teachers!
• CCSS is also in the best interest of our
  educational system, if our teachers and schools
  are allowed to use it correctly!

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Do it!

• For Our Kids
• For Our Community
• For Our State
• For Our Country
• For Our World
• Dont you want all of these to be better when you
  leave than when you got here!
• Thats a legacy that will never die!

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Contact Information

• E-mail george.loper_at_desotocountyschools.o4rg
• Phone [phone]