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An Introduction to "Mapping to the Core" - Integrating the CCSS into Your Local School Curriculum and Assessments
Presented by Heidi Hayes Jacobs

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs presents an introduction to thecurriculum mapping model discussed in her new two-part book suite, Mapping to the Core: Integrating the Common Core Standards into Your Local School Curriculum. This model has already proven to be an effective systemic approach for fully integrating the Common Core Standards into local school curriculum.

September Content Theme: Common Core in the Classroom

September 11: Environmental Newscast with Yvonne C. from New Jersey
September 18: Cricket Investigation with Barbara H. (Watch the recording)
September 25: Volume of Prisms, Cylinders and Cones with Kimberly S. (Watch the recording)

Mapping to the Core: Planning for Curriculum Success
By Heidi Hayes Jacobs

In this webinar, participants gain an overview of an innovative learning experience provided by Mapping to the Core: LiveBook and Mapping to the Core: LivePlanner, the inaugural texts on the LiveBook 360 platform written by Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs and the Curriculum21 team. These interactive texts give teachers unprecedented support in mapping Common Core Standards alignment and student learning. Learn more...

Common Core Learning Targets Series:

#1: How to Create Learning Targets Aligned to the Common Core

Attaining Common Core Standards within the classroom requires thoughtful instructional design based on best practices. This webinar will offer practical, specific, cross grade level examples and non-examples with specific implementation tips for student success. Learn more...

#2: Building Mastery of Common Core Learning Targets

#3: Assessment for and Assessment of Common Core Understanding

Ongoing checks for learning are critical to the learning process and necessary for students to meet the rigorous Common Core Standards. Assessment is the second component of the Learning 360 Framework model and a critical component to building comprehension. Learn more...

#4: Mastery of Common Core Assessments

This webinar will dive deeper into specific assessment items across various content and grade levels as the overall learning targets of the previous webinar are revisited. Participants will apply learning through the analysis of assessment formats and items, based on the Common Core Standards. Learn more...

Confronting the Challenges of Teacher Evaluations by Harvey Silver
February 23, 2012

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Dr. Silver introduced participants to the Thoughtful Classroom Teacher Effectiveness Framework. The Thoughtful Classroom Framework is a simple and deep framework based on research from today’s preeminent teacher-effectiveness models and refined with insight from hundreds of educators across the country. This framework cuts to the core of good observation practice, maximizing an educator’s ability to improve teacher performance while steering away from methods that impede progress.

This all new webinar featured:

The research behind the Thoughtful Classroom Teacher Effectiveness Framework
The dimensions that make up the framework, including The Four Cornerstones of Effective Teaching, The Instructional Design and Delivery Model, and Professional Practice.
A set of specific and observable teaching behaviors in each dimension – many of which are connected to themes found in the Common Core State Standards
Specific student behaviors to look for as sure signs of effective teaching
A simple feedback protocol that helps administrators provide powerful feedback to teachers on their practice
A set of 4 point rubrics for turning observation data into summative evaluations

Common Core Standards: Equity and Opportunity by Lisa Leith
Presented on January 31, 2012.

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Watch the video in PD 360
Part 1 - Free

Join the popular and widely acclaimed Dr. Lisa Leith as she delivers this highly informative two-part webinar. Dr. Leith will host a Q&A session after discussing a new framework for student interaction and engagement across curriculum, content, and text.

Though standards alone will not re-engineer public education, the Common Core initiative provides an unprecedented opportunity to ensure student and teacher support systems are in place, that will lead to success for all.

In this webinar, we will examine the social, emotional and academic profile of the struggling student. We will then explore the potential that integration of Common Core Standards offers for meeting the needs of the whole child, for empowering students to drive their own learning pathways, to increase motivation and relevance and to refocus students and teachers on success beyond school.

Mapping Curriculum, Planning Success: Integrating the Common Core Standards in Each K-12 Classroom by Heidi Hayes Jacobs

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Part 1| Part 2 | Part 3

This all-new webinar features the following:

Upgrade and transform education through the lens of 21st century readiness
Text complexity and 8 standards for mathematical practice
Formative assessment as the basis of diagnosing student needs
Curriculum maps as the basis for responsive prescription to those needs
4 Phase School Wide Systems Model in Mapping to the Core: LiveBook and Mapping to the Core: LivePlanner (available only through School Improvement Network)
Q&A session with Dr. Jacobs

Explorations in Equity, by Glenn Singleton

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Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 |

In “Explorations in Equity,” Glenn Singleton discusses the principles, theories, and practices in his courses Beyond Diversity and Courageous Conversations about Race, two in-depth, complementary courses that support equity leaders as they take educators deeper into the racial equity work. During this webinar, you can talk to Glenn Singleton in a Q&A session about his continuing journey with equity protocol in education

The 3 Must-Haves to Align Student Learning with the Common Core
May 17, 2011

In this webinar, Steve Olsen will answer the questions:

What does it mean to teach THROUGH the Common Core and Standards of Learning rather than teach TO them?
What are the critical elements of quality teaching that will maximize the positive impact of the Common Core and Standards of Learning on student learning?
What does quality teaching using the Common Core and Standards of Learning look like?
How can assessment practices enhance learning using the Common Core and Standards of Learning?

View on PD 360: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5

Past Webinars - Common Core Webinar Series

Common Core 101: Why, What, and How, by Curtis Linton

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Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 |

8:30 – 9:30 a.m. MST

“Common Core 101: Why, What and How” will focus on the rationale behind the creation of the Common Core Standards and why 48 states are part of this initiative. Learn about Inequity and persistent gaps in American education and examine why the Common Core Standards provide an opportunity to re-engineer our education system. Receive an overview of the process of change that states, districts, and schools will engage over the next few years as Curtis Linton addresses the question, “What will educators need to know to effectively integrate the Common Core into their schools and classrooms?”

Translating ELA Standards, by Dr. Ann Johnson (CMI21)

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8:30 – 9:30 a.m. MST

Dr. Johnson focuses on strategies to translate the English Language Arts Common Core Standards that define the major components of a grade-level consensus unit map. She also discusses how identifying the non-negotiable content and skills from the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), such as all grade-level consensus unit maps, guides alignment of the components within a grade-level map to ensure the ELA Depth of Knowledge increases from year to year.

Translating Mathematics Standards, by Dr. Debbie Sullivan (CMI21)

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8:30 – 9:30 a.m. MST

Dr. Sullivan demonstrates strategies for the translation of the Mathematics Common Core Standards that create rigorous classroom lessons and targeted assessments. She offers practical instructions for aligning the components translated from the CCSS, within a grade-level map, with instructional design, engaging performance tasks, formative assessments, and targeted interventions.

Student Engagement & Future Focus, by Dr. Lisa Leith

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Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 |

8:30 – 9:30 a.m. MST

How can the Common Core Standards help teachers reduce classroom conflict, increase student engagement and promote future focus? Dr. Leith will address the roles of collaboration and goal setting in the classroom, and provide direction for achieving desired results while freeing students to make their own choices. She will explore the connections between relationships, self-image, motivation, and student success.

The webinar format includes a 30-40 minute expert presentation, supported by digital media (PPT, video, graphic files, supplied by speaker and distributed by SINET) as appropriate, and 15-20 minutes of Q&A.

All webinars will be recorded and be available for playback after they are completed.