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Lake County Schools Investing In Excellence!

Lake County Schools Investing In Excellence! College and Career Readiness. Academic Services C² Collaborative Cohort September 20, 2012. Connecting to Common Core through Reading Instruction.

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Lake County Schools Investing In Excellence!

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  1. Lake County Schools Investing In Excellence! College and Career Readiness Academic Services C²Collaborative Cohort September 20, 2012

  2. Connecting to Common Core through Reading Instruction Date: October 18, 2012 Shifting Gears (Bell Ringer): Evaluate text for complexity in structure and language demands. Learning Goal: Learners will know, understand, implement and monitor the 3 elements of the C2 Ready Reading Classroom at the school they serve. Agenda: I DO: Provide online tools for incorporating informational text for instruction WE DO: Discuss the role of pairing informational text in the classroom utilizing a circle map YOU DO: Find a paired text to match the literary text used in “Shifting Gears” using the online tools and reading task card provided. Benchmark: Anchor Standard 10 for Reading Literary/ Informational Domain 2: Planning and Preparing • Objective: Learners will identify ways to pair informational text in instruction and locate informational texts by utilizing online tools provided and task cards. Summarizing Activity: Reflective question What do you now know about pairing text? What are your preliminary considerations for your action plan? Essential Question: How do we revolutionize the way we teach, lead, and learn for 21st century success in the C2 Ready Reading Classroom? • Next Steps (Homework): • Bring artifact Vocabulary: informational text, “pairing text”, structure, language demands

  3. Lake County Schools Vision Statement • A dynamic, progressive and collaborative learning community embracing change and diversity where every student will graduate with the skills needed to succeed in postsecondary education and the workplace. Mission Statement • The mission of the Lake County Schools is to provide every student with individual opportunities to excel. • Lake County Schools is committed to excellence in all curricular opportunities and instructional best practices. This focus area addresses closing the achievement gap, increased graduation rate, decreased dropout rate, increase in Level 3 and above scores on the FCAT, achieving an increase in the number of students enrolled in advanced placement and dual enrollment opportunities and implementing the best practices in instructional methodology.

  4. Academic Services Curriculum & Instruction ~ Professional Development ~ Teaching & Learning • The Office of Academic Services encompasses the core business of Lake County Schools. We provide guidance and support to develop instructional leaders through the coordination of district curriculum initiatives, professional learning, along with teaching and learning programs that result in improved learning for ALL. Our goal is to work collaboratively with schools to continuously and significantly improve student achievement, align curriculum and instructional practice to Florida’s standards, assist schools to develop their capacity to implement data-driven planning and review processes that foster continuous school improvement. Assurances • We will ensure that we work with district staff and school administrators to design and collaborate on systems that address professional learning needs related to improving student outcomes. • We will ensure that curriculum is current and at a high level (rigorous) meeting local, state, and national standards. • We will ensure that researched-based best practices (programs and processes) are utilized regarding student curricular needs and student learning patterns. • We will ensure services are provided that target closing the achievement gap by improving the performance of all students while drastically accelerating the achievement of students of color, English Language Learners (ELL), Exceptional Student Education (ESE) and students living in poverty.

  5. 21st Century Skills Tony Wagner, The Global Achievement Gap Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Collaboration and Leadership Agility and Adaptability Initiative and Entrepreneurialism Effective Oral and Written Communication Accessing and Analyzing Information Curiosity and Imagination

  6. Shifting Gears Language demands and structure Think (Read) Write RoundRobin 3 minutes to Read 2 minutes to Write RoundRobin

  7. The C2 Ready Reading Classroom Student and Teachers utilizing the “RIGHT” text Students interacting with text Students responding to text • Complex • Higher Lexile • Increase Informational Text • Text Across Content Areas

  8. The C2 Ready Reading Classroom Complex Increase in Informational Text Teachers and Student Utilizing the “Right” Text Higher Lexiles Text Across Content Areas

  9. Share our Artifacts

  10. Lesson Planning and Delivery Teachers create opportunities for students to deepen knowledge by responding to text Teachers create opportunities for students to engage in structures that allow for academic discourse Teachers generate questions and tasks around the elements that make the text complex Teachers identify and select the “right text” to use in instruction

  11. The C2 Ready Reading Classroom Matching informational text and literary text by topic. Pairing Text

  12. AN IN-DEPTH LOOK

  13. The C2 Ready Reading Classroom Matching informational text and literary text by topic. Pairing Text Reading and Language Arts Teachers

  14. AN IN-DEPTH LOOK

  15. The C2 Ready Reading Classroom Matching informational text and literary text by topic. Content Area Teachers Pairing Text Reading and Language Arts Teachers

  16. Task • Find an informational text to pair with the literary text, Heidi or Martin Eden from our Shifting Gears. • Utilize online tools and the Reading Task Card to assist you • Find the Lexile of the text and questions you might ask based on the skill using the Reading Task Card

  17. Web Based Tools: Ebsco Tool • Ebsco • Lake County Home Page • EBSCO • lakecounty (Username) • lakecounty (Password)

  18. www.time.com/time/magazine

  19. Lexile: 1290L *Language Demands *Knowledge Demands

  20. www.Readworks.org Grade, Lexile, Skill/ Strategy

  21. http://news.discovery.com

  22. Lexile: 1470 L Language Demands Knowledge Demands

  23. www.britannica .com

  24. http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com

  25. Lexile: 1210L Context Clues Multiple Meaning Words: plate, fault, rock, strike

  26. www.scholastic.com/activities/scholasticnews/index.html

  27. 1450L Text Structure: Cause and Effect

  28. http://kellygallagher.org/resources/articles.html Article of the Week: Sources: New York Times, CBS Reports, Washington Post, The Week

  29. Pair to teach skill: Validity and Reliability- What does the author use to support the information in the article? What information from the article support the conclusion that …? Easy Ready to Print Format Lexile- 1050 L

  30. http://docsteach.org

  31. D-Day Statement to Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force • On to victory! • This message signed by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was handed to Allied troops stepping onto their transports in early June 1944. As Commander of the Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force, General Eisenhower provided encouragement and hope for those about to liberate the European continent from Nazi tyranny.

  32. MIRANDA VS. ARIZONA Rationale from the Supreme Court for the right to remain silent

  33. Historycentral.com

  34. Task • Find an informational text to pair with the literary text, Heidi or Martin Eden from our Shifting Gears. • Utilize online tools and the Reading Task Card to assist you • Find the Lexile of the text and questions you might ask based on the skill using the Reading Task Card

  35. Stand up, Hand up, Pair Up • Resource Utilized • Name of text • Lexile • Questions Stand Up Hand Up Pair Up

  36. Lesson Planning and Delivery Teachers identify and select the “right text” to use in instruction Summarizing Activity/ Exit Ticket: What do you now know about pairing text? How does pairing text connect to our district look-fors? Teachers generate questions and tasks around the elements that make the text complex

  37. Year at a Glance December 2012: Teachers will identify the Lexile for all text used and be able to communicate the Common Core Lexile Expectation for their grade level February 2013: Teachers will increase the amount of informational text used in instruction by pairing text May 2013 –Teachers will be all able to articulate the 3 legs of text complexity and the 4 elements that make a text complex. They will engage in discussions and collaborate to analyze the complexity of various texts. June 2013- Teachers are trained on creating moderate to high text-dependent questions using the elements that make the text complex.

  38. Next Steps Artifacts: • Action Plan for training teachers on pairing text with classroom implementation by February 2013 • Example of informational text paired with literary text to include; Lexile measure, and questions related to benchmark utilizing the Reading Task Card

  39. Objective: Learners will identify ways to pair informational text in instruction and locate informational texts by utilizing online tools provided and task cards.

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