Slides from an NSBA webinar with • Karen Fasimpaur, President, K12 Handhelds • Barbara Treacy, Director, EdTech Leaders Online, Education Development Center • Dr. Geoffrey Fletcher, Senior Director, Strategic Initiatives and Communications, State Educational Technology Directors Association • Andrew Chlup, Director of Technology, Vail School District • Bud Hunt, Instructional Technology Coordinator, St. Vrain Valley School District

1. Common Core:
New Opportunities for
Deeper Learning

2. Introductions
Barbara Treacy
Director, EdTech Leaders Online, Education Development Center
BTreacy@edc.org
Dr. Geoffrey Fletcher
Senior Director, Strategic Initiatives and Communications,
State Educational Technology Directors Association
gfletcher@setda.org
Karen Fasimpaur
President, K12 Handhelds
karen@k12opened.com
Andrew Chlup
Director of Technology, Vail School District
chlupa@vail.k12.az.us
Bud Hunt
Instruc.Technology Coordinator, St. Vrain Valley School District
budtheteacher@gmail.com

3. Common Core State Standards
Overview
 Standards for students to reach college
and to be career ready
 Build on strengths and lessons of
current state standards
 Key goals:
coherent, clearer, fewer, higher, measu
rable and internationally benchmarked

4. The Potential
To give students the knowledge and skills
they will need to succeed in a rapidly
changing world
Deeper learning = Content mastery + 21st
century skills
 Critical thinking
 Problem solving
 Collaboration
 Communication
 Real-world application
 Self-directed learning

5. Common Core + Deeper Learning
“Rigorous: The standards will include
high-level cognitive demands by asking
students to demonstrate deep conceptual
understanding through the application of
content knowledge and skills to new
situations.
High-level cognitive demand includes
reasoning, justification, synthesis, analysis,
and problem-solving.”
- Common Core State Standards Initiative Standards-Setting
Criteria http://www.corestandards.org/resources

6. Cross-grade learning progressions:
Organization for Deeper Learning
 ELA
• Designed as a “staircase”
• Anchor standards in
Reading, Writing, Speaking and
Listening, and Language
• Media and literacy throughout
• Increased focus on
» Informational text
» Informative/explanatory writing
» Domain specific vocabulary

7. Coherent Organization
for Deeper Learning
 Math
• Standards for Mathematical Practice
» Consistent across all grade levels
» Describe mathematical habits of mind
• Standards for Mathematical Content
» Organized in domains that progress
over several grades
» High school standards presented by
conceptual theme

8. Common Core State Standards
DO NOT DEFINE:
Curriculum
How teachers are to teach
DO CREATE:
A huge need for curriculum materials
A huge need for teacher professional
development
A huge opportunity for OER materials to
meet these needs

9. The Age of the Waterbed
Credit: Robert Paprstein, public domain

10. Today’s Summative Assessments
1. Don’t measure what matters
2. Feedback isn’t actionable
3. Results aren’t specific enough at the
student level to guide instruction
4. Are a one-day snapshot

11. RTTA Consortia
SMARTER
Balanced
Assessment
Consortium
(SBAC)
Approx. 27 states
Partnership for
Assessment of
Readiness for
College and
Careers
(PARCC)
Approx. 24 states
Credit: K12 Handhelds, CC BY

12. The RTTA assessments are
supposed to:
 Be online
 Have optional interim assessments
 Cover a full range of
standards, including critical
thinking, problem solving and
communication
 Be interactive and have complex student
demonstrations of knowledge
 Use technology to
develop, administer, score and report
 Produce sufficient information to guide
instruction
 Use technology for new, innovative item

13. Where We Are in the RTTA
Development Process
 SBAC’s assessment is computer-
adaptive
 PARCC’s will have a major performance
task
 Both consortia have schedules of RFPs
 Technology Readiness Tool

14. What We Need for Success
 Professional development
• Use of the readiness tool
• Use of tools for online assessment
• Deeper understanding of CCSS
• Different approaches
» Instruction
» Curriculum
» Instructional materials
 Adequate devices and bandwidth
 www.assess4ed.net

15. Open Educational Resources
Free, open, and digital resources that can
be remixed, modified, and redistributed
A way to share
• Open textbook projects
• P2PU School of Ed
• NY project to develop open-licensed
professional development and curriculum
resources geared to CCSS
A wise use of public funds

16. Sites for OER
• OER Livebinder –
www.livebinders.com/play/play/117659
(includes many of the resources below as well)
• CA Open Textbooks – www.clrn.org
• Free Reading – www.freereading.net
• CK12 – www.ck12.org
• Curriki – www.curriki.org
• OER Commons – www.oercommons.org
• P2PU – www.p2pu.org/school-of-ed

17. Beyond Textbooks - A Case Study
Credit: Vail School District, all rights reserved

18. The Magic “How”
Credit: Vail School District, all rights reserved

19. While CCSS brings some challenges,
it also brings great opportunities for
deeper learning.
Thank you.
Questions and comments