Www.engageNY.org Common Core Implementation Ambassadors Monday Evening Session November 26, 2012.

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Common Core Implementation

Ambassadors Monday Evening Session

November 26, 2012


Tonight’s Objectives

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• Learn about success stories and common challenges from colleagues

• Develop or refine your individual ambassador plan


Bright Spots Panel

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Find your bright spots

“When it's time to change, we must look for bright spots -- the first signs that things are working, the first precious As and Bs on our report card.

We need to ask ourselves a question that sounds simple but is, in fact,

deeply unnatural: What's working and how can we do more of it?”

- Chip and Dan Heath, authors of Switch


Bright Spots Panelists• Kim Crowley, a kindergarten teacher in the East Aurora

School District• John McKenna, an elementary school principal in the

Tonawanda City School District • Lori Ann Storey, a fourth grade teacher in the Waterville

Central School District

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August Refresher: Making a Switch

To affect change in our colleagues and systems, we have to reach both the rider and the elephant.

The emotional side:

The ELEPHANT

The emotional side:

The ELEPHANT

Point to the

destination

Script the critical

moves

Find the feeling

Rally the

herd

The rational side:

The RIDER

The rational side:

The RIDER


Directing the Rider: Point to the Destination

• Envision a rich, detailed picture of the destination. Why are we doing all this work?

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Are we at the destination when all students are

engaged and motivated?


When we have a

100% graduation rate?


When all high school

graduates go on to

college?


Invent the next big thing?


Build great things?


Directing the Rider: Point to the Destination

• Individually, reflect on why you are doing this work and write down a description of your destination on a sticky note. • What does success look like for you?• What is happening in your classroom/school that indicates

that this work has been successful?• Be vivid and specific!

• Post your sticky note on the flipchart.• On your way out tonight, take a look at your

colleague’s destinations.

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Overcoming Obstacles

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Trap Door

Abandon all hope ye who

enter here

OK, I can do this

Reality sets in

Starting out with

high hopes

Neutral

Common Core is great

and will make a

difference in how my

students learn!

Eh, this isn’t so different

from what I was already

doing. What was all the

fuss about?

Uh oh, this changes

everything. This is going

to be a lot more work

for me and my

students.

This is WAY too hard. I

don’t have time for this.

I’m already giving

everything I have.

Wait a minute, this is

starting to make sense.

I can do this and so can

my students!

Beware the trap door


This is hard, hard work

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• Implementing the Common Core is challenging, sometimes complicated and can seem overwhelming. →Turn to your neighbor and share your biggest

concerns. Have those concerns changed over time?


Refresher: What are Critical Moves?

•They start with the destination in mind •They articulate how people should act•They begin with an achievable first step


Examples of Critical Moves

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1. Place red (cut), yellow (if I have time) and green (must do!) sticky notes on your current curricular resources

2. Take the modules you’ll get here and identify how to replace current units/lessons with materials in the modules.

3. Identify and map out the Common Core standards you will be teaching and when next semester

4. Use released NYS and PARCC assessment items with your students and in your lesson planning

5. Research curriculum mapping that already exists for your curriculum (Everyday Math in NYC, e.g.)

6. Plan a couple PD sessions for your colleagues around the shifts and the modules

7. Review your next two units and determine what you can cut out that isn’t directly aligned to the standards


Sample Ambassador Plan

• Examples of critical moves and other strategies around the three roles of an ambassador:1.Implement the shifts in your classroom/school

2.Build the capacity of others to implement the shifts

3.Communicate the importance of the CCSS

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Ambassador

Role

Due Date

Status (red,

yellow, green)

Teacher

Ambassador

Strategies

Principal

Ambassador

Strategies

Other Players

to Involve



• Example strategies for implementing the shifts in your classroom/school

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What? Who? When?

Identify and map out the standards you will be teaching and when throughout the school year

Teachers Before the next 9 week period

Review CCSS resources on www.engageny.com and plan a PD session for teachers around building CCSS-aligned lesson plans

Principals By next week



• Example strategies for building the capacity of others to implement the shifts

•Teacher ambassador example: Principal ambassador ple:

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What? Who? When?Lead a professional learning community made up of all teachers within your subject area across all grades or all teachers across all subjects in a single grade to share ideas, best practices, effective lessons, resources, etc. around the CCSS

Teachers Next semester

Preview in-service days scheduled for the remainder of the year and find ways to incorporate planning sessions on the CCSS

Principals By next week



• Example strategies for communicating the importance of the CCSS

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What? Who? When?Lead an effort to identify local businesses to attend a professional learning community meeting or parent workshop and discuss with teachers/parents the skills and characteristics they are looking for in graduates

Teachers Next semester

Train faculty on using parent/teacher conferences as an opportunity to promote the CCSS and the importance of getting our students college and career ready

Principals Next nine weeks


Drafting Your Plans

• Goal: To draft a plan that includes 2-3 strategies in each of the 3 roles of the ambassador:1.Implement the shifts in your classroom/school

2.Build the capacity of others to implement the shifts

3.Communicate the importance of the CCSS

• On your own, use the sample plan to brainstorm your strategies (15 minutes)

• Share and discuss with your table (15 minutes)

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Common Themes?

• Group discussion (15 minutes):•What were the biggest challenges in drafting

your plan? •How did you address those challenges?•What new strategies did you build into your

plan? •What resources will you need to implement your

plan? What else will you need?

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Next Steps

• Next week:• Finalize your plan. • Share your plan with your principal/leadership

team.

• Before winter break:• Begin implementing your plan.• Share your plan with your NT/NTE.

• Ongoing:• Reflect on challenges/issues and refine plan as

needed.

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Thank You.

Www.engageNY.org Common Core Implementation Ambassadors Monday Evening Session November 26, 2012.

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