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Dedication | |
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Foreword | |
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Preface | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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About the Authors | |
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Introduction: Why American Schools Must Move Toward Common Core State Standards | |
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The World is Flat | |
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The Problem and the Solution: Education | |
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Can Government Rescue Our Schools? | |
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Designing Competitive Curriculum for a Global Economy | |
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Common Core State Standards: What Are They? | |
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Common Core State Standards: More Than Standards With an International Flavor | |
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A Quick Trip Around the World | |
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Moving Forward | |
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The School Leader's Role in Making the Common Core State Standards Work | |
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Creating Guiding Ideas to Implement the Common Core State Standards | |
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Guiding Ideas and Evidence | |
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Getting to How: Operationalize Your Guiding Ideas | |
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Identifying the Innovation | |
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Teaching the Change | |
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The Social and Emotional Literacy Components of the Common Core State Standards | |
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School Leaders and Teachers Partner to Help Students | |
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Inspiring Trust, Creativity, Transparency, and Success: A Framework for Loose Versus Tight Leadership | |
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Building Understanding About the Issue and its Impact on Your Organization | |
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Moving From Understanding to Action | |
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Helping Communities Create a New Future | |
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Designing Local Curriculum to Absorb the Common Core State Standards in English | |
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Real-World Applications | |
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Grades K-2: Phonological Awareness (One Topic) | |
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Grades K-2: Key Ideas and Details and Craft and Structure | |
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Grades 3-5: Fluency (One Topic) | |
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Grade 5: Reading With Fluency and Accuracy | |
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Grades 6-8: Key Ideas and Details (One Topic) | |
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Grades 9-10: English Language Arts Curriculum | |
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Grades 11-12: Reading and Writing | |
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Designing Local Curriculum to Absorb the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics | |
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Comparison of State and Common Core State Math Standard Emphasis | |
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Common Core State Math Standards | |
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Kindergarten Common Core State Standard and Local Curriculum Math Standards | |
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Grade 1 Common Core State Standard and Local Curriculum Math Standards | |
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Grade 2 Common Core State Standard and Local Curriculum Math Standards | |
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Grade 5 Common Core State Standard and Local Curriculum Math Standards | |
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Six Domains of Instructional Strategies for All Students | |
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Purpose of the Math Common Core | |
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Grade 7 Common Core State Math Standards: Ratios and Proportional Relationships | |
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Grades 9-10 Common Core State Math Standards: The Real Number System | |
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Grade 10 Common Core State Math Standards for Geometry: Congruence | |
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Grade 12 Common Core State Math Standards for Statistics: Using Probability to Make Decisions | |
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Challenges to the Implementation of Rigorous Common Core State Standards | |
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Testing Policies Do Not Improve Schools | |
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The Common Core State Standards: Opportunities for Equity and Excellence | |
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Helping Teachers Redefine their Profession | |
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How to Assess Mastery of the Common Core Curriculum State Standards | |
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Direct Instruction | |
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The Power of Formative Assessments | |
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Formative Assessment Examples From Real Schools | |
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Building Successful Schools | |
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Special Education and General Education | |
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The Leadership Challenge: Creating Common Understandings of the Common Core State Standards | |
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The Role of School Leaders | |
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Envisioning Excellence | |
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We Get the Results We Design Schools to Achieve | |
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Vision or Nightmare? | |
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Enter the Common Core State Standards | |
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Dialogue: Providing Opportunity So Facts Influence Opinions | |
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Creating Context for the Common Core State Standards | |
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Teachers Need Deep Understanding of the Common Core State Standards | |
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Identifying Gaps: Current Versus Desired Reality | |
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Creating Systems that Accelerate Learning for All | |
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Multicultural Issues that Teachers and School Leaders Must Face Beyond the Common Core State Standards | |
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Common Core State Standards Lift Us Beyond Difference | |
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What All Teachers and School Leaders Need to Know About Multiculturalism | |
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Grouping and Labeling Students | |
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Building a Multicultural Learning Community | |
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An Effective Intervention in Schools that Improves Instruction and Learning | |
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Creating Sustainable Change in Struggling Schools | |
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Leaders Create the Context and Design for Change to Succeed | |
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Change to Succeed | |
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Homework | |
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Student Work and Deficit Assumptions | |
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Focus Groups | |
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School Leaders | |
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Parent Involvement | |
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Students | |
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Changing Public Mental Models About School Reform | |
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Public Policy: Helpful and Harmful | |
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References | |
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Index | |