ELA+Forum-Mar+25,+2010

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8:00 - 8:30 Registration/Coffee/Networking 8:30 - 8:50 Introductions/Review of Agenda Items 8:50 - 9:00 News and Notes from NYSED 9:00 -10:00 Today’s Topic: Common Core state standards initiative 10:00 - 10:15 Break 10:15 - 11:15 District Round Tables: What is your feedback? Do these standards reflect a “shared Responsibility for students’ literacy development? 11:15 - 11:45 Teacher 2 Teacher: Strategies that work 11:45 -12:30 Lunch 12:30 -1:30 Technology Talk Time: incorporating incredible technology into ELA Classrooms 1:30 – 2:30 Debrief and Future Planning
 * Agenda**
 * [|Common Core Standards]
 * [|Survey (NYS)]
 * [|Survey] (NGO-CCSSO)
 * NYS Assessment: Field Testing
 * SCDN Updates
 * Breakout sessions by grade bands
 * Aligned with college and work expectations;
 * Clear, understandable and consistent;
 * Include rigorous content and application of knowledge through high-order skills;
 * Build upon strengths and lessons of current state standards;
 * Informed by other top performing countries, so that all students are prepared to succeed in our global economy and society; and
 * Evidence- and research-based.
 * Please bring a resource or lesson that you find successful In preparing your students for the NYS Assessments
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 * Next year’s Forum: Format, Schedule, topics


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