Aligning Your Curriculum to the Common Core State Standards

Joe Crawford

Foreword by Karen Young

Other Titles in:
Learning Styles | Standards & Accountability | Teaching Methods & Learning Styles

January 2012 | 248 pages | Corwin

Avoid ôanalysis paralysisö and just get started! Now that most states have adopted the new Common Core State Standards, the next major challenge is to simplify and implement them by 2014. That is why it is important to begin this work now. Joe Crawford, Milken Award-winning educator and author of Using Power Standards to Build an Aligned Curriculum, shares his proven process for building a viable local curriculum based on the CCSS. Readers will find:A system for creating local standards from the CCSSMethods for connecting the common, formative assessments to quarterly instructional objectivesWays to scaffold learning expectationsExamples taken from districts where CCSS is currently implementedIncluded are helpful charts and graphs plus access to Internet-based software for mapping the CCSS to curriculum, instruction, and assessment. Schools cannot continue to do what they have always done and expect a different result. This book explains how to facilitate learning for all students while taking advantage of the new culture, technology, and norms of todayÆs learning environment.

Foreword by Karen Young

Preface

Acknowledgements

About the Author

partners4results Software Availability

1. Overview of CCSS and Associated Leadership Issues

Chapter Expectations

Aciton Steps

Leadership Challenges for Implementing CCSS

What Are Standards?

Develop and Use a Standards-Based Curriculum

Align the Curriculum

Think of Content as a Means to a Performance End

Staff Development Issues

Build Undersanding of the CCSS

Use What Has Already Been Developed as a Basis for Moving Forward

Defining and Creating Local CCSS

Understand Local CCSS (Power Standards)

How to Read These Samples

What Are Instructional Objectives?

Why Are Instructional Objectives So Important?

System Thinking

What About Using National Assessments as Formative Assessments?

What About Accountability?

What About Using the Data?

What About Monitoring?

System Thinking Summarized

Process Summary

Process Checklist

2. Curriculum Issues and a National Curriculum Model

Chapter Expectations

Action Steps

What Is a Curriculum?

Consider Your Options for Defining Curriculum

A New Model for a National Curriculum

New National Model Defined

Process Summary

Process Checklist

3. The Development and Use of Local CCSS, Quarterly Instructional Objectives, and Common Formative Assessments

Chapter Expectations

Action Steps

Build Local CCSS

Design Quarterly Instructional Objectives

Develop Common Formative Assessments

Addressing Formative Assessments Within the Assessment Development Cycle

Address Issues in Creating Common Formative Assessments

Designing Local Assessments

Process Summary

Process Checklist

4. A Sample K-12 Curriculum

Chapter Expectations

Action Steps

Read and Understand the New Model

Accept the Realities of a Sample From Several Districts

How to Read These Samples

Sample K-12 ELA Curriculum

Sample K-12 Math Curriculum

Process Summary

Process Checklist

5. The Journey Ahead

Chapter Expectations

Action Steps

Summary of Issues

Some Specific Issues

Current Reactions

Final Thoughts

Resource A: Collated Feedback on CCSS Work

Resource B: Suggested Forms for Developing Local CCSS (Power Standards) and Instructional Objectives and Feedback Forms

B1: Standards to Local Standards

B2: Follow-Up Process Guidelines for Local CCSS

B3: Quarterly Instructional Objectives, Critical Attributes

B4: Follow-Up Process Guidelines: Instructional Objectives

B5: Initial Distribution Feedback

B6: Local CCSS/Instructional Objectives Quarterly Feedback

B7: Quarterly Assessments Feedback

B8: End-of-Year Feedback

B9: Curriculum Audit: What the Research Tells Us

References and Suggested Readings

Index

“At a time when all of us are seeking clarity and simplicity about the Common Core State Standards (less is more!), Joe Crawford’s book makes a helpful and practical contribution to the work of implementation. His real-school examples help us to see that standards can and must be reduced to be useful.”

Mike Schmoker, Author, Speaker, and Consultant

"Our teachers are eager to take ownership in curriculum development, and our district looks forward to updating other content areas using the Power Standards model."

Denita Scott, NCLA Coordinator

Dolton School District 149, Calumet City, IL

"The process and methods that Joe Crawford implemented with our teachers, and his ability to customize the process while working with three different school districts, speaks volumes to the scalability of his Power Standards approach. His work is not just transactional, but truly transformational."

Scott Kuffel, Superintendent

Geneseo Community Unit School District 228, IL

"From developing a system for connecting different assessments and objectives to understanding how CCSS currently works in the real world, this is packed with guidelines suitable for any education collection."

James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief

The Midwest Book Review, March 2012

"This readable title is directed toward the implementation leader and is designed as a guide for putting the CCSS into operation. This book is an excellent road map to guide schools and districts beginning to create workable local CCSS."

Susan McNair, Library Media Specialist

Lugoff Elgin High School, South Carolina

Library Media Connection, August 2012

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