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Responsive School Network News
10 January 2012
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 Common Core Standards Initiative
Learn More About CCS
The last few years has seen a ground swell of support for the concept of Common Core Standards. Currently, 45 of the 50 states have adopted them.
The Common Core Standards (CCS) were developed through the collaboration of teachers, school administrators and leading education experts with the idea of providing educators and parents with a common understanding of exactly what students are expected to learn. In other words, the CCS were developed to provide appropriate benchmarks for all students, irregardless of where they are from. 
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 Meet Julie Burke, One of JP's CCS Expert s
Learn Why Julie is So Passionate About the Common Core Standards
With over twenty years of experience in leading school reform, Julie Burke was a natural choice to help develop JP's Common Core Standards Workshops. And thanks to the team's fervent dedication, JP is able to offer a series of Professional Development Workshops to help school systems ensure they have a clear understanding of the CCS and also have confidence in aligning their current curricula to the CCS. When asked about her thoughts on the CCS, Julie said, "I believe the Common Core Standards have the potential to ensure that all of our children, no matter where they grow up, will be prepared for success in college and the global workforce. But that potential will only be realized through careful implementation." 
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 JP's Common Core Standards Workshops
Cutting Edge Workshops
To view full descriptions of these workshops, click here. Once you are on the Workshops/Seminars page, scroll to the Curriculum Domain near the bottom, and you will find all the Common Core Standards Workshops, as listed below.
THE COMMON CORE STANDARDS - WELCOMING THEM TO YOUR SCHOOL Become acquainted with the CCS, learn how to align CCS with current curricula, discover how CCS address items within content area and items across grade levels, and find out how this information can be used to improve instruction and student achievement.
MEETING THE COMMON CORE WRITING STANDARDS
Increase awareness of Common Core Writing Standards, develop explicit instruction strategies and practice use of rubrics to score writing samples.
BRIDGING THE GAP: MEETING THE COMMON CORE STANDARDS
Learn how to identify high quality instructional materials, discover strategies to bridge gaps between current materials and CCS and find out how to establish and use a data system to monitor the "bridges."
GETTING TO KNOW THE COMMON CORE STANDARDS: AN INTRODUCTION Increase awareness of CCS, become skilled at analyzing and aligning current curriculum to CCS, determine the level of alignment between current curriculum and CCS and design a rubric for future use.
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 Common Core Standards Initiative
Always on the cutting edge of educational improvement, JP established a team of School Improvement Specialists to address the standards. This team has developed several workshops specifically designed to address the needs of educators to implement these Common Core Standards into their schools. At the very least, JP's CCS workshops will teach schools how to analyze and align their current curriculum with the CCS, how to bridge gaps between current materials and the CCS, how to practice using rubrics to score writing samples and how to use the CCS to improve instructions and student achievement. To learn more about the CCS workshops JP offers, read the Examine section of this newsletter or go directly to our website by clicking here and then scrolling to the Curriculum Domain near the bottom of the Workshops/Seminars page. You will find full descriptions of all the CCS workshops JP has developed. Be the first to take advantage of these wonderful professional development opportunities! |
Julie Burke, Common Core Standards Expert
In developing the CCS Workshops for JP, Julie thought about the many questions and concerns educators and parents would have on how they would be affected by the CCS, and what the impact on students would be. "I think classroom teachers are the most important group in moving the Common Core Standards from mere words to actual improvements in learning," explains Julie. She feels it isn't enough to simply distribute the new standards to teachers with the expectation of positive, meaningful change. "We need to provide educators with targeted professional development that helps them understand the new standards, plan lessons and deliver instruction that are are aligned to them." The next step, according to Julie, is evaluating learning on an ongoing basis to determine how well students are mastering the standards and to provide additional support to the students who need it JP's series of Common Core Standards Workshops address every aspect of what schools will face when implementing the Standards. There is an introductory session for participants to work alongside JP School Improvement Specialists as they model the process of analyzing and rating how schools current curriculum aligns with the CCS. From here, participants are taken through the process of implementing the Standards on their own, complete with a take-home rubric for future analysis. Four workshops in all, every detail of implementing the standards into current school systems is addressed in JP's CCS Workshops. You can learn more about these workshops by clicking here. Simply scroll to the Curriculum Domain at the bottom of the Workshops/Seminars page to view full descriptions of these stimulating professional development opportunities. |
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