Aligning Your Curriculum to the Common Core

Specific steps for building today'¬"s curriculum The author of Using Power Standards to Build an Aligned Curriculum shows how to implement the new Common Core State Standards. Milken Award-winning educator Joe Crawford shares his specific, tested process for building a guaranteed and viable local curriculum based on the Common Core State Standards, including: A '¬Show to'¬ manual on specific processes A system for creating local standards from the CCSS Methods for connecting the common, formative assessments to quarterly instructional objectives Ways to scaffold learning expectations Readers will find helpful charts and graphs plus free internet-based software that provides for the electronic mapping of the CCSS all the way down to actual classroom instruction, assessment and curriculum mapping capabilities.

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
About the Author	p. xix
partners4results Software Availability	p. 1
Overview of CCSS and Associated Leadership Issues	p. 3
Chapter Expectations	p. 3
Action Steps	p. 3
Leadership Challenges in Implementing CCSS	p. 5
What are Standards?	p. 6
Develop and Use a Standards-Based Curriculum	p. 6
Align the Curriculum	p. 8
Think of Content as a Means to a Performance End	p. 10
Staff Development Issues	p. 10
Build Understanding of the CCSS	p. 11
Use What Has Already Been Developed as a Basis for Moving Forward	p. 12
Defining and Creating Local CCSS	p. 13
Understand Local CCSS (Power Standards)	p. 14
How to Read These Samples	p. 15
What are Instructional Objectives?	p. 16
Why are Instructional Objectives So Important?	p. 21
System Thinking	p. 22
What About Using National Assessments as Formative Assessments?	p. 24
What About Accountability?	p. 25
What About Using the Data?	p. 26
What About Monitoring?	p. 26
System Thinking Summarized	p. 28
Process Summary	p. 29
Process Checklist	p. 29
Curriculum Issues and a National Curriculum Model	p. 31
Chapter Expectations	p. 31
Action Steps	p. 31
What is a Curriculum?	p. 33
Consider Your Options for Defining Curriculum	p. 33
A New Model for a National Curriculum	p. 34
New National Model Defined	p. 36
Process Summary	p. 45
Process Checklist	p. 46
The Development and Use of Local CCSS, Quarterly Instructional Objectives, and Common Formative Assessments	p. 47
Chapter Expectations	p. 47
Action Steps	p. 48
Build Local CCSS	p. 49
Design Quarterly Instructional Objectives	p. 57
Develop Common Formative Assessments	p. 61
Addressing Formative Assessments Within the Assessment Development Cycle	p. 63
Address Issues in Creating Common Formative Assessments	p. 66
Designing Local Assessments	p. 68
Process Summary	p. 77
Process Checklist	p. 78
A Sample K-12 Curriculum	p. 79
Chapter Expectations	p. 79
Action Steps	p. 79
Read and Understand the New Model	p. 80
Accept the Realities of a Sample From Several Districts	p. 81
How to Read These Samples	p. 82
Sample K-12 ELA Curriculum	p. 83
Sample K-12 Math Curriculum	p. 139
Process Summary	p. 181
Process Checklist	p. 182
The Journey Ahead	p. 183
Chapter Expectations	p. 183
Action Steps	p. 183
Summary of Issues	p. 184
Some Specific Issues	p. 185
Current Reactions	p. 189
Final Thoughts	p. 194
Collated Feedback on CCSS Work	p. 197
Suggested Forms for Developing Local CCSS (Power Standards) and Instructional Objectives and Feedback Forms	p. 205
Standards to Local Standards	p. 205
Follow-Up Process Guidelines for Local CCSS	p. 206
Quarterly Instructional Objectives, Critical Attributes	p. 206
Follow-Up Process Guidelines: Instructional Objectives	p. 207
Initial Distribution Feedback	p. 208
Local CCSS/Instructional Objectives Quarterly Feedback	p. 209
Quarterly Assessments Feedback	p. 211
End-of-Year Feedback	p. 213
Curriculum Audit: What the Research Tells Us	p. 215
References and Suggested Readings	p. 217
Index	p. 221
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