2. 2
Special Guests
Sandra Bradshaw – ACTE Educator in
Residence; Fulltime FACS/CTE Jr. High Teacher,
Clinton, UT
KaiLonnie Dunsmore – Associate Director,
National Center for Literacy Education
3. ACTE Common Core Activity to Date
Signed on as CCSS Endorsing Partner in June
2009
Techniques issue devoted to Common Core
Common Core web page
Two Common Core webinars with America’s
Promise (Missouri and Oregon)
Common Core sessions at VISION and NPS
8. Common Core VISION Sessions
Thursday, Dec. 5, 1:00-2:30 – Partnership for Assessment of
Readiness for College and Careers Briefing
Saturday, Dec. 7, 8:30-10:00 – Smarter Balanced
Assessment Consortium Briefing
Friday, Dec. 6, 2:45-4:15 – Oregon’s Trail: Integrating CTE
Into the Common Core
Friday, December 6, 10-11:30 – 90 minutes with the
Common Core Standards for Literacy in Technical Subjects –
Voices from the Field
Saturday, Dec. 7, 8:30- 10:00 – Practical Approaches for
the CCSS for Literacy in Technical Subjects
9. New CTE Common Core Resources
Partners
Association for Career and Technical Education
Nat. Assn. of State Directors of CTE Consortium
Student Achievement Partners
College Board hosted meeting:
January 29-30 in New York City “Deep Introduction to the
Common Core State Standards for CTE teachers”
10. Association for Career and Technical Education
Consortium for School Networking
National Council for the Social Studies
National Council of Teachers of English
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
National Science Teachers Association
11.
12. Instructional Shifts in CCSS –
ELA Standards in multiple disciplines
• Building Knowledge through
Informational Text (“content rich”)
• Reading, Writing, Speaking draws from
evidence in text (argumentation)
• Learning Disciplinary knowledge through
engagement with texts rich in the
complexity of content that uses
academic vocabulary (language of the
discipline)
13.
14. Sustained improvement in literacy
teaching and learning occurs when
literacy is a shared responsibility,
professional learning is rooted in
collaboration and inquiry, and
organizational conditions sustain
ongoing learning for everyone.
15.
16. Teachers’ Workday in the United
States
Percentage of the work day US teachers
spend in isolation from their colleagues
Source: Met Life Survey of the American Teacher (2009)
17. Average Hours of Professional
Learning
Education Market Research, February 2010.
18. Defining the Job: U.S. Teachers Teach
1080
803
664
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
U.S. Teachers OECD average-
primary
OECD average-
secondary
Directcontacthourswith
studentsperyear
Source: OECD, Education at a Glance (2007)
20. NCLE National Survey of
Collaborative Professional Learning
Opportunities
Survey Methodology
National Sample: 2,400+ respondents mirroring the US
national educator profile
NCLE Stakeholder Sample: additional 8,600+ respondents with
results validating the national stratified sample
31. How NCLE helps schools build
capacity for literacy learning
Free resources and links about literacy teaching and learning
in all subjects from 30 leading national orgs
Case studies, vignettes, and portraits of innovative team
practices.
An online community with flexible posting rules so that useful
resources can be shared across schools
Support for deepening and making more purposeful team
collaboration and inquiry.
Direct advice about how to take stock of your team’s progress
and select an inquiry question for sustained focus.