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Give to Caesar what is
      Caesar’s...
    One take on the Common Core.

          Patrick Higgins, Jr.
            June 21, 2011
   High Point Regional High School
Where We
Will Go.
The Core.
Disruptive
Innovation.
Who are we
dealing with
   here?
What Does it Mean to Be Well-Educated
         in Today’s World?
Stay away
    from
 buzzwords
and edu-speak
Who are They?




                http://i.imgur.com/IVA1N.jpg
Who are They?

Deceptively Native




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Text one of the codes
      below to 22333
• Radio: 35354 • Online Sources:
                 182643
• Print: 70331
• Television:  • Other: 189185
 182615
Results
traditional?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/austinevan/1225274637/
New?


http://www.flickr.com/photos/penmachine/98352836/
Ideo’s books/iPad story via Al Gore?
The Core.
What were they
spawned from?
CCR
CCR
College Career Readiness
NGA   CCSSO   CCR
Because of RTTF
“(42% of US students are currently
required to attend college remediation
courses. Most living wage jobs now
require at least 2 yrs. of post secondary
training-- fast food franchises for a
management position often require 4 yrs.
of post secondary work.)”
Source: www.achieve.org
The Bottom Line:
The Bottom Line:
“When students take challenging courses in
high school, they have more options when they
graduate.What used to be thought of as
“college prep” curriculum is now the basic level
of preparation all students need to be
successful in college and the workplace.”
Source: www.achieve.org
“The standards are internationally
 benchmarked. Common standards will help
ensure our students are globally competitive.”
Source: www.achieve.org
“Expectations are standardized and
consistent for all students and not dependent
           on a student’s zip code.”
Source: www.achieve.org
“Standards are focused, coherent, and clear.
Clearer standards help students (and parents
 and teachers) understand what is expected
                  of them.” 
Source: www.achieve.org
“Standards create a foundation to work
   collaboratively across states and districts,
   pooling resources and expertise, to create
   curricular tools, professional development,
  common assessments and other materials.”
Source: www.achieve.org
These People Dig It:
link
Loss of local control
National Curriculum
48
Language Arts Standards


Link
Kindergarten-8
Organized by Grade
       Level
9-12
Organized by Grade
      Bands
Reading, Writing,
Speaking, Listening,
    Language
“Shared resposibility for
   students’ literacy
     development”
Translate this


“Shared resposibility for
   students’ literacy
     development”
Mathematics
Standards for
     Mathematical Practice
1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving
them.
2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
3. Construct viable arguments and critique the
reasoning of others.
4. Model with mathematics.
Standards for
      Mathematical Practice
5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
6. Attend to precision.
7. Look for and make use of structure.
8. Look for and express regularity in repeated
reasoning
“Require the application of
mathematics to real world
  situations and issues.”
Kindergarten-8
Strong foundation in arithmetic, numbers,
            and operations
9-12
Number and quantity, algebra, functions,
  modeling, geometry, statistics and
             probability.
So What Now?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/humanoide/138782217/
$330 Million




   Testing
$330 Million




   Testing
Two Camps
Two Camps


PARCC
Two Camps


PARCC      SMARTER
Phase out HSPA by
    2014-2015
Performance-Based?
Common Across States
Computer-based
Smushing Standards
Disrupters
    Text
Kill the
                                                 Mothership
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jongorr/203440092/
Here’s what I like about
 the Common Core:
Here’s what I like about
  the Common Core:

They don’t interfere too much
       with my biases.
“The Standards define what all
students are expected to know
and be able to do, not how
teachers should teach.”
Media/Technology
   Baked In.
Bias #1




Global Reach
42 Eyes
Audience Matters
Audience

Matters
Bias #2




It Has to
 Matter
Literacy...
Paradox of Word Poverty
               http://www.flickr.com/photos/ipuzzled/152290154/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70323761@N00/1659490498/
“...we're in the midst of
a literacy revolution
the likes of which we
haven't seen since
Greek civilization,"
         --Prof. Andrea Lunsford, Stanford University
                         http://www.flickr.com/photos/70323761@N00/1659490498/
A Literacy Revolution
                   http://www.flickr.com/photos/photograham/311323441/sizes/l/
November 3, 2008




 McCain                Obama
620,359 supporters   2,379,102 supporters




                                  (Jeremiah Owyang, 2008)
(Jeremiah Owyang, 2008)
(Jeremiah Owyang, 2008)
Obama had 403%
more subscribers
than McCain
Obama had 905%
more viewers than
McCain



                    (Jeremiah Owyang, 2008)
Intellectual Heavy
     Lifting  http://www.flickr.com/photos/c2k2e/114746487/
Bias #3




Leave a
Legacy
Are We Making a Mark?




             http://www.flickr.com/photos/antphotos/4226218448/
Patrick Higgins, Jr.
Orangehiggins@gmail.com

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