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1. ACTE State Leaders Call:
Common Core State
Standards

2. 2
Special Guests
Sandra Bradshaw – ACTE Educator in
Residence; Fulltime FACS/CTE Jr. High Teacher,
Clinton, UT
KaiLonnie Dunsmore – Associate Director,
National Center for Literacy Education

3. ACTE Common Core Activity to Date
 Signed on as CCSS Endorsing Partner in June
2009
 Techniques issue devoted to Common Core
 Common Core web page
 Two Common Core webinars with America’s
Promise (Missouri and Oregon)
 Common Core sessions at VISION and NPS

5. State Crosswalks
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6. http://www.achieve.org/ccss-
cte-classroom-tasks

8. Common Core VISION Sessions
 Thursday, Dec. 5, 1:00-2:30 – Partnership for Assessment of
Readiness for College and Careers Briefing
 Saturday, Dec. 7, 8:30-10:00 – Smarter Balanced
Assessment Consortium Briefing
 Friday, Dec. 6, 2:45-4:15 – Oregon’s Trail: Integrating CTE
Into the Common Core
 Friday, December 6, 10-11:30 – 90 minutes with the
Common Core Standards for Literacy in Technical Subjects –
Voices from the Field
 Saturday, Dec. 7, 8:30- 10:00 – Practical Approaches for
the CCSS for Literacy in Technical Subjects

9. New CTE Common Core Resources
Partners
 Association for Career and Technical Education
 Nat. Assn. of State Directors of CTE Consortium
 Student Achievement Partners
College Board hosted meeting:
 January 29-30 in New York City “Deep Introduction to the
Common Core State Standards for CTE teachers”

10. Association for Career and Technical Education
Consortium for School Networking
National Council for the Social Studies
National Council of Teachers of English
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
National Science Teachers Association

12. Instructional Shifts in CCSS –
ELA Standards in multiple disciplines
• Building Knowledge through
Informational Text (“content rich”)
• Reading, Writing, Speaking draws from
evidence in text (argumentation)
• Learning Disciplinary knowledge through
engagement with texts rich in the
complexity of content that uses
academic vocabulary (language of the
discipline)

14. Sustained improvement in literacy
teaching and learning occurs when
literacy is a shared responsibility,
professional learning is rooted in
collaboration and inquiry, and
organizational conditions sustain
ongoing learning for everyone.

16. Teachers’ Workday in the United
States
Percentage of the work day US teachers
spend in isolation from their colleagues
Source: Met Life Survey of the American Teacher (2009)

17. Average Hours of Professional
Learning
Education Market Research, February 2010.

18. Defining the Job: U.S. Teachers Teach
1080
803
664
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
U.S. Teachers OECD average-
primary
OECD average-
secondary
Directcontacthourswith
studentsperyear
Source: OECD, Education at a Glance (2007)

19. www.literacyinlearning.org/remodeling

20. NCLE National Survey of
Collaborative Professional Learning
Opportunities
Survey Methodology
 National Sample: 2,400+ respondents mirroring the US
national educator profile
 NCLE Stakeholder Sample: additional 8,600+ respondents with
results validating the national stratified sample

27. Collaborative inquiry
needs systemic support,
a generous amount of
which is available through
NCLE and related networks.

29. Literacy in Learning Exchange
www.literacyinlearning.org

30. http://bit.ly/assessyourassets

31. How NCLE helps schools build
capacity for literacy learning
 Free resources and links about literacy teaching and learning
in all subjects from 30 leading national orgs
 Case studies, vignettes, and portraits of innovative team
practices.
 An online community with flexible posting rules so that useful
resources can be shared across schools
 Support for deepening and making more purposeful team
collaboration and inquiry.
 Direct advice about how to take stock of your team’s progress
and select an inquiry question for sustained focus.

32. Learning Network
Formative Assessment Teams
C-3 Implementation Teams
Secondary ELL & Writing
Family/School Partnerships COPs

33. Questions?

34. Contact Information
Stephen DeWitt
sdewitt@acteonline.org
Sandra Bradshaw
Sandra.brads39s@gmail.com
KaiLonnie Dunsmore
kdunsmore@ncte.org