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Math teachers and Options Area administrators gathered this morning for their second session of Shifting Instruction to the Core , this time focusing on Core Actions Two and Three from the Instructional Practice Guide s. Participants reflected on their implementation of "Multiple Representations" from our last session , worked through print and video resources on the Standards for Mathematical Practice , and engaged material to support the use of open questions and parallel tasks in mathematics classrooms. Session materials can be found below.  Slide deck in PPT Reflection : Multiple Representations Standards for Mathematical Practice (page 6 of the CCSSM PDF ) Instructional Practice Guide: High School Mathematics  Core Action 3 Note-Taker Parallel Tasks handout Open Question handout

Last week a wonderful resource went live - the  Teaching the Core Video Library . This is a robust video library educators can use as we all continue to align teaching and learning to the Common Core and Instructional Shifts.  The video library contains bell-to-bell classroom lessons focused on ELA/Literacy and Math, some of which feature teachers in Washoe County School District, and is easily searchable across all grade levels. Each video includes descriptive annotations for educator reviewers that call out a teacher action, student behavior, or lesson element that supports the CCSS and is aligned the the Instructional Practice Guides . Other resources include: a full set of lesson materials, examples of student work, and an interview with the featured teacher(s). (Full disclosure – I worked as one of the reviewers annotating lessons.)  You can find the Teaching the Core Video Library here  and  read more about the details of the project  here .

This week is the fourth quarter interssion at Rise Academy for Adult Achievement and teachers gathered this afternoon to engage in professional learning. A portion of this session focused on the Key Advances for the ELA/Literacy CCRS for Adult Education  and Instruction Moves to support teaching and learning aligned to the standards. Participants engaged in print and video resources from OCTAE, Carol Dweck, and Thomas Toch & Susan Headden. Resources for the session are available below.  Presentation deck in PDF Session Notetaker Key Advances  Dr. Carol Dweck TED Talk, " The Power of Believing You Can Improve"  and transcript "How t Motivate Students to Work Harder " by Thomas Toch and Susan Headden Super Annotator Card Sort - Growth Mindset

Science teachers and their administrators gathered today for a second session of Shifting Instruction to the Core. Participants continued their focus on the   Instructional Shifts  and  Instructional Practice Guides  from their  previous session , this time with an emphasis on writing to sources. The session included a reflection on teacher's classroom use of  Keep It or Junk It , a review of the Instructional Practice Guides and Argumentative Writing, a careful annotation of   "The Writing Revolution" , engagement in a lesson model for ranking evidence, and time to apply the lesson to their future lessons. Materials for the session are linked below. Presentation deck in  PDF Reflection  Note Taker Science & Technical Subjects  Writing Standards Grades 9-10 Instructional Practice Guides for ELA/Literacy   ELA/Literacy  Instructional Shifts Excerpted  copy  of " The Writing Revolution "  Annotation Guide :  Annotating for Claim-Reasoning

As part of a continuing effort to help build the capacity of educators to better recognize and use highly Common Core-aligned materials, the Implementation Specialists and Instructional Coaches in Washoe County School District are engaging in  ongoing professional learning  around the  EQuIP Rubric for Lessons & Units: ELA/Literacy (Grades 3-5) and ELA (Grades 6-12) . During this third session participants continued to review a training lesson and apply the EQuIP ELA 3-12 Rubric to the materials and calibrated their feedback. Materials for today's session include: Presentation deck in  PowerPoint   Training Lesson : Ain’t I a Woman ( not to be distributed as an exemplar ) EQuIP  Discussion Guide EQuIP ELA 3-12  Rubric Electronic version  of the EQuIP ELA 3-12 Rubric

History-Social Studies teachers and their administrators gathered Thursday for the second session of Shifting Instruction to the Core. Participants continued their focus on the   Instructional Shifts  and  Instructional Practice Guides  from their  previous session , this time with an emphasis on writing to sources. The session included a reflection on teacher's classroom use of  Keep It or Junk It , a review of the Instructional Practice Guides and Argumentative Writing, a careful annotation of   "The Writing Revolution" , engagement in a lesson model for ranking evidence, and time to apply the lesson to their future lessons. Materials for the session are linked below. Presentation deck in  PDF Reflection  Note Taker History-Social Studies Writing Standards  Grades 9-10 Instructional Practice Guides for ELA/Literacy   ELA/Literacy  Instructional Shifts Excerpted  copy  of " The Writing Revolution "  Annotation Guide : Annotating for Claim

As part of Shifting Instruction to the Core, computer-based instruction teachers and administrators gathered today to explore how the Instructional Shifts might be reflected in their classrooms. Participants began by working with the Instructional Shifts and CCSS ELA Reading Anchor Standards  and moved on to use " " The Alarming, Long-Term Consequences of Workplace Stress " by Gillian B. White to explore  a variety of reading strategies students might use to better align teaching and learning the expectations of the Standards and Shifts. These included AVID Cornell Note s, Mind Maps , and Headings into Questions . Participants spend the end of the session planning for implementation of these strategies into their CBI classroom. Resources for this session include: Presentation deck in PDF Instructional Shifts   CCSS ELA Reading Anchor Standards  " The Alarming, Long-Term Consequences of Workplace Stress " by Gillian B. White from The Atlantic Co