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<a href="http://www.commoncoreconversation.com">http://www.commoncoreconversation.com</a>. Five Myths About the Common Core ELA Standardstag:schoolleadership20.com,2012-12-26:1990010:Topic:1298952012-12-26T13:55:07.389ZMichael Keanyhttps://schoolleadership20.com/profile/MichaelKeany91
<p><span><b>Five Myths About the Common Core ELA Standards</b></span></p>
<p><span>(Originally titled “The Common Core Ate My Baby and Other Urban Legends”)</span></p>
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<p><span>In this important <i>Educational Leadership</i> article, literacy expert Timothy Shanahan (University of Illinois/Chicago) debunks five myths about the common core literacy standards:</span></p>
<p><span>• <i>Myth #1: The new standards prohibit teachers from setting purposes for reading or discussing prior…</i></span></p>
<p><span><b>Five Myths About the Common Core ELA Standards</b></span></p>
<p><span>(Originally titled “The Common Core Ate My Baby and Other Urban Legends”)</span></p>
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<p><span>In this important <i>Educational Leadership</i> article, literacy expert Timothy Shanahan (University of Illinois/Chicago) debunks five myths about the common core literacy standards:</span></p>
<p><span>• <i>Myth #1: The new standards prohibit teachers from setting purposes for reading or discussing prior knowledge</i>. True, the original publishers’ criteria written by lead authors David Coleman and Susan Pimentel in 2011 suggested deemphasizing the common practice of spending time building up students’ background knowledge, establishing the purpose for reading a passage, and asking for students’ predictions. Facing a storm of protest, Coleman and Pimentel retreated and issued an April 2012 revision that eliminated admonitions against pre-teaching. </span></p>
<p><span>“So to clarify, there simply is no ban on pre-reading in the Common Core State Standards,” says Shanahan. But there are significant changes – close reading and re-reading – which suggest that it’s a good idea to get students to plunge into texts without a lot of prior teaching. “The benefit of the pre-reading controversy,” says Shanahan, “is that it’s getting educators to take a hard look at how best to send students into a book – and this rethinking can help us clear up our pre-reading act… Preparing students to read a text… should be brief and should focus on providing students with the tools they need to make sense of the text on their own.” </span></p>
<p><span>• <i>Myth #2: Teachers are no longer required to teach phonological awareness, phonics, or fluency</i>. Not true, says Shanahan. The common-core standards are strong on phonological awareness K-1, phonics K-3, and fluency K-5. So how did this myth get started? Perhaps because the new literacy standards began with comprehension, which is the reverse of the sequence in many previous standards documents. </span></p>
<p><span>• <i>Myth #3: English teachers can no longer teach literature in literature classes</i>. Nonsense, says Shanahan. What the new standards do is give informational texts equal billing with novels, stories, poems, and plays in the elementary grades and 30 percent of classroom time in the upper grades – but that includes science and social studies. English teachers can continue to teach literature, as they have always done.</span></p>
<p><span>• <i>Myth #4: Teachers must teach students at frustration levels</i>. It’s true that the common-core standards call for students to work with more-challenging material at each grade level than has been typical in basal readers in recent years. This is based on research showing that students make less progress when they read easier texts – and the urgent need to prepare students for the literacy demands of college and the workplace. But the higher reading levels in the new standards should not lead primary-grade teachers to push students beyond what is required by the common-core (which is similar to previous expectations) in order to prepare them for more-demanding grade 2 standards. And all teachers should give their students a mix of reading material – more-demanding material for close reading and direct instruction, easier material for fun reading.</span></p>
<p><span>• <i>Myth #5: Most schools are already teaching to the new standards</i>. Baloney, says Shanahan: “We <i>are</i> going to have to make some real changes in our practices.” These include (a) less emphasis on pre-reading and more on close reading, re-reading, and follow-up; </span></p>
<p><span>(b) building students’ skills and motivation to tackle difficult texts without telling them what the texts say; (c) an increase in critical analysis and synthesis of information from multiple texts; (d) a greater emphasis on informational texts in upper-grade social studies and science classes; and (e) more student writing about the ideas from texts than personal thoughts. </span></p>
<p><span>“Each one of these changes is considerable and will require better and more appropriate professional development, instructional materials, and supervision,” says Shanahan. “Educators who shrug off these changes will face a harsh reality.” The fact is that 40 percent of students who currently meet state standards need remediation when they get to college and many fail to graduate. The new standards are in line with what students need to know and be able to do to succeed in college and careers. Shanahan believes they will give teachers, students, and parents a much more accurate picture of where students stand, and what they need to succeed.</span></p>
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<p><span>“The Common Core Ate My Baby and Other Urban Legends” by Timothy Shanahan in <i>Educational Leadership</i>, December 2012 (Vol. 70, #4, p. 10-16), <a href="http://www.ascd.org"><span>www.ascd.org</span></a>; Shanahan can be reached at <a href="mailto:shanahan@uic.edu"><span>shanahan@uic.edu</span></a>. </span></p>
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<p><span>From the Marshall Memo #463</span></p> Next Draft of Common Science Standards to Hit in Januarytag:schoolleadership20.com,2012-12-08:1990010:Topic:1283042012-12-08T14:29:11.289ZMichael Keanyhttps://schoolleadership20.com/profile/MichaelKeany91
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<div class="asset-header"><h1 id="page-title" class="asset-name entry-title">Next Draft of Common Science Standards to Hit in January</h1>
<div class="asset-meta"><span class="byline">By <span class="vcard author"><a class="fn url" href="http://www.edweek.org/ew/contributors/erik.robelen.html">Erik Robelen</a></span> on <abbr class="published" title="2012-11-29T09:46:35-05:00">November 29, 2012 </abbr></span></div>
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<div class="asset-content entry-content"><div class="asset-body"><p>An ambitious effort to develop common science standards across states will soon face a second—and final—round of public vetting and feedback. The new draft, crafted through a partnership that has brought together education officials from 26 states, is now slated to arrive the first week of January. That's later than the promised fall release signaled earlier by organizers.</p>
<p>The standards, which aim to refocus K-12 science education, are now projected to be finalized in March. After that, it's up to individual states to decide if they want to adopt them.</p>
<p>Top priorities among the standards writers include: promoting depth over breadth in science education, ensuring greater coherence in learning across grade levels, and helping students understand the cross-cutting nature of crucial concepts that span scientific disciplines. Another key goal is to ensure that students apply their learning through scientific inquiry and the engineering-design process to deepen their understanding.</p>
<p>It's hard to say how many states will ultimately embrace the new standards. As I <a href="http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2012/05/11/31science.h31.html">reported</a> earlier this year, the 26 "lead states" developing the Next Generation Science Standards are not bound to adopt them, but have pledged to give "serious consideration" to doing so. Organizers say other states are interested in the effort and may well adopt them. At least two states that took a pass on the Common Core State Standards, Texas and Virginia, have already signaled they will not be adopting the science standards. However, a Virginia official said last spring that they would be "reviewed" and "taken into account" when the Old Dominion next revises its science standards, in 2017.</p>
<p>As you might imagine, the first draft of the standards did spark some criticism. For example, it drew some <a href="http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2012/06/more_feedback_has_been_coming.html">friendly fire</a> from the National Science Teachers Association and the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. In addition, advocates for computer science education <a href="http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2012/06/the_first_public_draft_of.html">argued</a> that the first draft gave their discipline short shrift.</p>
<p>A statement by organizers of the science-standards project says that since the May release of the first draft, the "lead states and the writers evaluated the tens of thousands of comments collected ... and worked on revising the standards." In fact, a "feedback report" will be issued together with the second public draft to explain how feedback was handled and why.</p>
<p>For more details on exactly who is writing the common science standards, check out this <a href="http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2012/05/who_is_writing_the_next_genera.html">blog post</a>.</p>
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</div> Common Core advicetag:schoolleadership20.com,2012-11-17:1990010:Topic:1268162012-11-17T13:59:36.788ZMichael Keanyhttps://schoolleadership20.com/profile/MichaelKeany91
<p><span><b><i>Common Core advice</i></b> – This website has advice from educators on making the transition to the Common Core State Standards, plus a list of helpful websites:</span></p>
<p><span><a href="http://www.k12center.org/rsc/pdf/Coming_Together_April_2012_Final.PDF">http://www.k12center.org/rsc/pdf/Coming_Together_April_2012_Final.PDF</a></span><span> </span></p>
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<p><span>“Bulletin Board” in <i>Educational Horizons</i>, October/November 2012 (Vol. 91, #1, p.…</span></p>
<p><span><b><i>Common Core advice</i></b> – This website has advice from educators on making the transition to the Common Core State Standards, plus a list of helpful websites:</span></p>
<p><span><a href="http://www.k12center.org/rsc/pdf/Coming_Together_April_2012_Final.PDF">http://www.k12center.org/rsc/pdf/Coming_Together_April_2012_Final.PDF</a></span><span> </span></p>
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<p><span>“Bulletin Board” in <i>Educational Horizons</i>, October/November 2012 (Vol. 91, #1, p. 6)</span></p>
<p><span> </span></p> Common Core Conversation celebrates Connected Educators Month!tag:schoolleadership20.com,2012-08-13:1990010:Topic:1159292012-08-13T18:09:33.796ZKristina Holzweisshttps://schoolleadership20.com/profile/KristinaHolzweiss
<div class="yiv468594827MsoNormal" id="yui_3_2_0_1_13448761186471030"><span class="font-size-4"><strong>The Common Core Conversation is hosting a Lesson-A-Thon. The goal is to collect 31 lessons, units, activities, assessments, and ideas relating to the Common Core Standards in 31 days. </strong></span></div>
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