Aligning Your Curriculum to the Common Core State Standards - Softcover

Crawford, Joe T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1452216479 ISBN 13: 9781452216478

Publisher: Corwin, 2011

Synopsis

Avoid "analysis paralysis" and just get started!

The Milken Award-winning educator and author of Using Power Standards to Build an Aligned Curriculum shows how to implement the new Common Core State Standards. This book outlines his proven process for building a guaranteed and viable local curriculum based on the CCSS, and includes:

• A system for creating local standards from the CCSS
• Methods for connecting the common, formative assessments to quarterly instructional objectives
• Ways to scaffold learning expectations

Readers will find helpful charts and graphs plus access to Internet-based software for mapping the CCSS to classroom instruction.

 

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About the Author

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Joe Crawford spent 36 years in public education at the high school, junior high, middle school, and district level as an English teacher, assistant principal, principal, and assistant superintendent focusing on improving student performance. He has been recognized by the Illinois State Board of Education in the Those Who Excel program and by the Carnegie Foundation in the National Systemic Change Award. Additionally, he was principal of a twice-recognized National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence and met two presidents as part of that recognition. He was also chosen by the Illinois State Board of Education and the Milken Family Foundation as a National Distinguished Educator. He has also been active in the Total Quality Management and continuous improvement, and his work reflects the tenets of these industry-standard approaches to improvement. While doing this work, his district received a Silver Award from the Baldrige Foundation.

Following the work of Larry Lezotte, Doug Reeves, Mike Schmoker and others, he works with local districts to apply this invaluable work and research in the real world of public schools and kids―making the transition from research to reality possible and even pleasant. He works with teachers and districts to build capacity and to create a common sense of mission through shared ownership of solutions. By involving those who will implement decisions in the actual decision-making process, he helps create a sense of buy-in and a much deeper understanding of state standards and the improvement process, leading to sustainable, long-term improvement in student performance.

Review

“At a time when all of us are seeking clarity and simplicity about the Common Core State Standards (less is more!), Joe Crawford’s book makes a helpful and practical contribution to the work of implementation. His real-school examples help us to see that standards can and must be reduced to be useful.”
Author: Mike Schmoker, Author, Speaker, and Consultant Published On: 2011-08-12

"Our teachers are eager to take ownership in curriculum development, and our district looks forward to updating other content areas using the Power Standards model." Author: Denita Scott, NCLA Coordinator Published On: 2011-08-25

"The process and methods that Joe Crawford implemented with our teachers, and his ability to customize the process while working with three different school districts, speaks volumes to the scalability of his Power Standards approach. His work is not just transactional, but truly transformational." Author: Scott Kuffel, Superintendent Published On: 2011-08-30

"From developing a system for connecting different assessments and objectives to understanding how CCSS currently works in the real world, this is packed with guidelines suitable for any education collection." Author: James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief Source: The Midwest Book Review, March 2012 Published On: 2012-05-04

"This readable title is directed toward the implementation leader and is designed as a guide for putting the CCSS into operation. This book is an excellent road map to guide schools and districts beginning to create workable local CCSS." Author: Susan McNair, Library Media Specialist Source: Library Media Connection, August 2012 Published On: 2012-09-05

Edition details

• Publisher: Corwin
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1452216479
• ISBN 13: 9781452216478
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248