Learn why and how you can help your schools adapt to the new Common Core standards, and find out about the tools that the School Improvement Network can provide to make the transition easier. Bonus: Watch the video (included in slideshow) about how Kentucky is preparing for the Common Core standards.

1. Aligning to Common Core Standards

2. Common Core… Feeling the stress, too? What Two questions are Keeping 48 States up at night?

3. Common Core Questions… How do we implement Common Core Standards in the classroom? How do we get all our teachers effectively teaching to the Common Core Standards? Effective Implementation + Successful Teaching to CC Standards = Energize the Classroom

4. Research Shows… The CCSSO Survey – (Council of Chief State School Officers) 50 State Superintendents Their survey concludes… The biggest need States have is professional development focused on implementing and teaching the Common Core Standards.

5. How to Get Started…

6. The Process… “The Pythagorean Theorem” The Teacher NEEDS to Know: What do students need to learn? How do I successfully teach it? How will I know when my students have successfully learned? “Tell me and I will forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I will understand.”

7. Why Common Core 360? Teachers want to see “best practices” taught by other teachers. Most often leaders jump to assessments of standards, forgetting about the instruction and how to deliver it.

8. Common Core 360 Focused on featuring excellent educators within successful systems. Focused on the process of successful teaching.

9. Common Core 360 Over 500 video learning segments for ELA Over 500 video learning segments for Math Highlighting teachers as the experts

10. Common Core Products Common Core 360: A Library of Common Core Video Segments 1. Implementing Common Core Standards 2. Teaching to Common Core in the classroom Hundreds of Model Lessons Engaging Teachers in the Learning Process Collaboration with Heidi Hayes Jacobs: Livebook – An online learning experience called Mapping to the Core Interactive video Book study group Interactive forums, podcasts, livechat Social media experience “How to” Course based on her book, Mapping to the Core

11. Kentucky – Sneak Peak Video

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