Materials from the Joint Retreat,
May 22-24, 2012, Denver
Retreat goals:
- Provide opportunities for network members to learn about current Common Core State Standards (CCSS) efforts from experts and select districts to inform their work on the CCSS.
- Learn about The Aspen Institute/Dana Center tools and processes used in pilot districts to inform and strengthen the implementation of the CCSS.
- Deepen participants' thinking about PARCC and SBAC opportunities.
- Engage in district team action planning to ensure that strategic planning guides the professional development and implementation of the CCSS.
- Build content networks that support one another in the implementation of the CCSS.
Meeting agenda (pdf 203kb)
Welcome presentation (pdf 772kb)
UDLN Districts and Retreat Participants
Retreat participants (pdf 139kb)
Presenter bios (pdf 283kb)
CCSS: Creating Coherence
Teacher Effectiveness
Uri Treisman, Professor and Director, The Charles A. Dana Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Ross Wiener, Vice President and Executive Director, The Aspen Institute Education and Society Program
Teacher Effectiveness presentation (pdf 18mb)
Additional readings:
- Gathering Feedback for Teaching, MET Project, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- When it Comes to Reading, Teaching Practices Matter, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- 5 Things Every Teacher Should be Doing to Meet the Common Core State Standards (pdf), Eye on Education, Inc.
Aligning the Work
Sheila Brown, Co-Director, CAO & ULLN Networks, Consultant, The Aspen Institute Education and Society Program
Jennifer Cheatham, Chief of Instruction, Chicago Public Schools
Keith Dysarz, Director, Teacher Effectiveness, Baltimore City Schools
Susan Hudson Hull, Director of Organizational Learning and Mathematics, The Charles A. Dana Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Aligning the Work of the CCSS with Teaching and Learning Frameworks presentation (pdf 6mb)
Additional readings:
- Rethinking Teacher Evaluation in Chicago, November 2011, Consortium on Chicago School Research at The University of Chiacgo Urban Education Institute
Connecting the Shifts—CCSS (pdf 45kb), Chicago Public Schools
2012 CPS Framework for Teaching (pdf 233kb), Chicago Public Schools
- Integrating the CCSS into Baltimore City's Instructional Framework Tool (pdf 115kb), Baltimore City Public Schools
Integrating Rubric Revisions (pdf 213kb), Baltimore City Public Schools
- Common Core "Shifts", EngageNY
Discussion Guide: Instructional Shifts for the Common Core (pdf 74kb), The Aspen Institute, Education and Society Program
- Standards for Mathematical Practice (pdf 70kb), Common Core State Standards, pages 6–8
Mathematics Assessment Project Classroom Challenges: Sorting Equations and Identities (pdf 61kb), Common Core State Standards
Mathematics Assessment Project Classroom Challenges: Formative Assessment Lessons (beta) for High School, Sorting Equations and Identities, Mathematics Assessment Resource Service, University of Nottingham (external link)
Additional Assessments and Strategies
- Targeting Growth, Using Student Learning Objectives as a Measure of Educator Effectiveness, Reform Support Network
- Principal Effectiveness and Leadership in an Era of Accountability: What Research Says, The Urban Institute
- Multiple Measures of Teacher Effectiveness in Hillsborough County Public Schools: The Role of Principals, Case Study, Hillsborough County Public Schools
- The Influence of Principal Leadership on Classroom Instruction and Student Learning: A Study of Mediated Pathways to Learning, Sebastian and Allensworth, Educational Administration Quarterly 2012
Principal as Instructional Leader
Ann Clark, Chief Academic Officer, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
Principal as Instructional Leader presentation (pdf 451kb), Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
Additional readings:
- CMS Student Learning Objective Guide, 2008 Community Training and Assistance Center
- Rubric for Rating the Quality of Objectives (pdf 119kb)
Assessment Consortia
PARCC
Doug Sovde, Director of Instructional Supports and Educator Engagement, Achieve, PARCC
- PARCC Progress Briefing Overview presentation (pdf 381kb)
- PARCC Technology Guidelines for PARCC Assessments Version 1.0, April 2012 and FAQ
- PARCC Education Leader Cadres Summary and FAQ
SBAC
Susan Gendron, Policy Coordinator, Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC)
- SBAC presentation (pdf 381kb)
- Smarter Balanced Sample Math Performace Task, Grade 8 (pdf 2.9mb)
- New Hardware Purchasing Guidelines April 2012
CAO
Uri Treisman, Professor and Director, The Charles A. Dana Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Cathy Seeley, Senior Fellow, The Charles A. Dana Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Sonja Brookins Santelises, Chief Academic Officer, Baltimore City Public Schools (BCPS)
Additional files may be found by visiting The Aspen Institute Education and Society Program website or The Aspen Institute Digital Resource Library.
ULLN
Sheila Brown, Co-Director CAO and ULLN, Consultant, The Aspen Institute Education and Society Program
Lee Kappes, Consultant, The Aspen Institute Education and Society Program
Joaquín Tamayo, Assistant Director, The Aspen Institute Education and Society Program
Additional files may be found by visiting The Aspen Institute Education and Society Program website or The Aspen Institute Digital Resource Library.
UMLN
Rolf Blank, SEC Program Director, Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)
- The Surveys of Enacted Curriculum: Data and Process for Aligning to Common Core (presentation) (pdf 2.7mb)
- Surveys of Enacted Curriculum, Content & Instruction in Focus, CCSSO
Susan Hudson Hull, Director of Organizational Learning and Mathematics, The Charles A. Dana Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Katey Arrington, Senior Program Coordinator, The Charles A. Dana Center, The University of Texas at Austin
- New Directions in Assessment, Supporting CCSSM (presentation) (pdf 2mb), The Charles A. Dana Center, The University of Texas at Austin
- Examples of possible innovations in summative assessment (pdf 1.1mb), various sources