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Common Core for Citizenship Alignment Guide
1. Common Core for Citizenship
New Resource for ELA/Civic Education Alignment
California Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference
Hyatt Orange County
March 2, 2012
Presented by
Michelle M. Herczog, Ed.D. Frances L. (Cricket) Kidwell, Ed.D.
Consultant III, History-Social Science and Assistant Superintendent
English Language Arts Trinity County Office of Education
Los Angeles County Office of Education cfkidwell@tcoe.org
Herczog_Michelle@lacoe.edu
Marshall Croddy
Vice-President, Constitutional Rights Foundation
California Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools
marshall@crf-usa.org
7. AB 250 Curriculum Support and Reform Act
Chaptered Into Law - October 8, 2011
(8b) It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this act, to do all of the
following:
(1) Develop a curriculum, instruction, and assessment system to implement
the common core state standards that intentionally does both of the
following:
(A) Focuses on integrating 21st century skills, including critical
thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity,
and innovation, as a competency-based approach to learning in all
core academic content areas, including English language arts,
mathematics, history-social science, science, health education,
visual and performing arts, and world languages.
(B) Promotes higher order thinking skills and interdisciplinary
approaches that integrate the use of supportive technologies,
inquiry, and problem-based learning to provide contexts for pupils
to apply learning in relevant, real-world scenarios and that prepare
pupils for college, career, and citizenship in the 21st century.
8. Connections to the Past –
Civic Action Today!
Why is this important?
Benefits of civic learning:
81% of high school dropouts
said they would have been less
likely to do so if there were
more opportunities for
experiential learning.
Students who receive both
www.civicmissionofschools.org
traditional and interactive civics
score highest on assessments
Students who receive effective civic learning are:
and demonstrate high levels of
More likely to vote and discuss politics at home 21st century skills like critical
Four times more likely to volunteer and work on thinking, understanding news,
community issues and work ethic.
More confident in their ability to speak publicly and Schools with civic learning
communicate with their elected representatives. programs are more likely to be
“safe, inclusive, and respectful.”
9. “Literacy is the key word here, because the
teaching of history should have reading and
writing at its core… This means teaching
students to be informed readers, writers, and
thinkers about the past as well as the present—
a goal all parties should be able to embrace.
Our democracy’s vitality depends on it.”
-Sam Wineburg
“Reading proficiency isn’t
in and of itself the magic key to
competence. It’s what reading
enables us to learn and to do that
is critical…”
-E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
11. Grades K-2
Building a
Foundation
Language for Civic Reading
Literacy
Grades 9-12
Civil Liberties
and the
Civic Grades 3-5
Common Good Action Our
American
in a
Constitutional for Today Democracy
Democracy
Speaking and Writing
Grades 6-8
Listening
The Historic
Road to Civic
Literacy
12.
13. Reading Standards for Literature, Grades 3-5
Our American Democracy: Grades 3-5
Yertle the Turtle
By Dr. Seuss
19. Speaking and
Listening
Writing
Research to Build and
Present Knowledge
Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
20.
21. Reading Standards for Informational Text
Code of Hammurabi Grades 6-8
THE RISE OF DEMOCRATIC IDEALS
Magna
Carta
The Qur’an
Twelve Tables of Roman Law
22.
23. Reading Standards for Informational Text, Grades 9-12
CIVIL LIBERTIES IN THE 20TH CENTURY REDEFINED
25. “Democracy cannot
succeed unless those who
express their choice are
prepared to choose wisely.
The real safeguard of
democracy, therefore, is
education.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Notas del editor
Rainbow and Ripples
Read informational text about ancient Greek, Roman, English, and leading European political thinkers such as John Locke, Charles-Louis Montesquieu, Niccolò Machiavelli, and William Blackstone on the development of American government.Read informational text about the women’s rights movement from the era of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the movement launched in the 1960s.Write an argument to support the claim that constitutional principles to promote the common good and protect the natural rights of individuals were challenged and redefined by the women’s rights movement and the civil rights movement.
Read informational text about ancient Greek, Roman, English, and leading European political thinkers such as John Locke, Charles-Louis Montesquieu, Niccolò Machiavelli, and William Blackstone on the development of American government.Read informational text about the women’s rights movement from the era of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the movement launched in the 1960s.Write an argument to support the claim that constitutional principles to promote the common good and protect the natural rights of individuals were challenged and redefined by the women’s rights movement and the civil rights movement.