California English Language Development

and Common Core Standards:Considerations for Their

Implementation

June 23, 2014

Presenter:

Lorena Tariba, MEd., SCCOE Multilingual Education Services Coordinator

Goal

Prepare every English learner for college and career success!

Discuss challenges and opportunities of rolling out concurrent implementation of Common Core State Standards and ELD Standards for districts

Explore strategies of implementation that integrate roll out of Common Core State Standards and ELD Standards in districts/schools

Objectives

ELD: Before and After the 2012 CA Standards

ELD after…

Mostly limited to…

ELD before…

Primary focus…

Proficiency Levels…

SBE-adopted ELD materials…

CA ELA Framework…

ELD Standards aligned to…

Integrated & Designated ELD: Working in Tandem

Integrated ELD:

All teachers with ELs

in their classrooms use the CA ELD Standards in tandem with the CA CCSS for ELA/Literacy and other content standards.

Designated ELD:

A protected time during the school day when teachers use the CA ELD Standards as the focal standards in ways that build into and from content instruction.

Implementation Defined

• im·ple·men·ta·tion"A specified set of activities designed to put into practice an activity or program of known dimensions“

• The Active Implementation Frameworks help define WHAT needs to be done (effective interventions), HOW to establish what needs to be done in practice (effective implementation), and WHO will do the work to accomplish positive outcomes in typical human service settings. 

The National Implementation Research Network (NIRN)

What Is Your District’s Framework of Instructional Initiatives?

Shifts required in Teaching & Learning

Shifts required in Leading

Admin & Teachers

PLCsExploration Installation

1. Local Educational Agency/Title III Plans

2. District C & I Plan and CCSS Implementation

3. LCAP Priorities Identified for the next

three years

Exploration Installation

Signature Instructional Practices Initiative: A District Sample

Learning Objective/

Student Learning Target

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AssessmentInstruction

Instruction for the Engaged Learner

Degrees of Implementation

• Read the Degrees of Implementation handout (Implementation Research: A Synthesis of the Literature – Dean Fixsen et al. 2005)

• With your team, discuss the Paper, Process and Performance Implementation stages in relation to your district’s current efforts to implement the CCSS and ELD Standards.

“ The use of effective interventions without implementation strategies is like serum without a syringe; the cure is available but the delivery system is not.”

Fixsen, Blase, Duda, Naoom & VanDyke, 2010

Active Implementation Frameworks

1.Implementation Teamso Involve variety of stakeholders to drive major

initiatives or interventions

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Active Implementation Frameworks

2. Stages of ImplementationYou may be at different stages of implementation on various Core Components

Active Implementation Frameworks

3.Implementation Drivers

Can support or hinder implementation

Competency Drivers

Organization Drivers

Leadership Drivers

Performance Assessment (Fidelity)

Coaching

Training

Selection

Facilitative Administration

Decision Support Data System

Integrated & Compensatory

Technical Adaptive

Implementation DriversImproved Outcomes

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Organization Supports

Leadership

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Systems

Intervention

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Active Implementation Framework

4. Improvement Processeso Needed for reflection on and revision of

implementation plans

Do We Speak the Same ‘Language’?

__ Has a common understanding of the 2012 ELD Standards central themes been established?

__ What stakeholder group(s) might need to be targeted in the establishing of this understanding?

___ When and how do we message the need to link the ELD and the CCSS in the current course of implementation in your district?

Road Sign Synectics

In a small group,

brainstorm ways in which road signs are

like:

Implementation

www.adaptiveschools.com

What Does Language Mean?

MATH SCIENCE

LANGUAGEARTS

*• instructional discourse • expressing and understanding reasoning

Olsen, 2013

Language*

Aligned with and to be used in tandem with CCSS for ELA & Literacy – How has your district messaged this integration to principals, teachers and parents in the implementation of CCSS? Is the integration part of the PD?

Highlight and amplify the critical language, knowledge about language, and skills using language in the CCSS in order for ELs to be simultaneously successful in school while they are developing language – To what degree have administrators, teachers and parents understood the difference between the development of Language as a fundamental content access skill for ELs and the teaching of reading and writing to all students?

Provide fewer, clearer, higher standards so teachers can focus on what’s most important – Has your district leveraged the advantage of fewer standards in the training offered to teachers and administrators by linking those to the ELD standards?

CA ELD Standards: Design

ELD Standards Overview Page 14

Where Are You in the Implementation?Letting It Happen? Adoption of the CCSS/ELD Standards

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Helping It Happen? Attempts to use/practice the CCSS/ELD Standards

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ELD Standards, if implemented as

an integral part of the CCSS

Students Who are College and Career Ready in Literacy

Leverage your District’s Vision for Literacy for All Students:• Demonstrate independence

• Build strong content knowledge

• Respond to the varying demands of audience, task, purpose, and discipline.

• Comprehend as well as critique

• Value evidence

• Use technology and digital media strategically

and capably

• Come to understand other perspectives and cultures

CCSS alone do not provide a pathway towards English proficiency for ELs

• New English Language Development standards aligned to the CCSS (adopted November 2012)

• Implementation of CCSS must be accompanied by full implementation of the new ELD standards

Olsen, 2013

Stage-Based Implementation Assessment

After determining the stage of implementation, the frame you use to 

complete the drivers assessment will be as follows: 

 

• For Exploration, you ASK: How are we planning for…? 

• For Installation you ASK: How are we installing…? 

• For Initial Implementation you ASK: How are we  supporting…? 

• For Full Implementation you ASK: How are we 

improving and sustaining…?

Educators Have a Dual Obligationto English Learners

Adapted from WestEd 2013 Summer Institute Presentation to CTA by

Robert Linquanti

Interconnected, not separate!

Simultaneous, not sequential!

• Provide meaningful access to grade-level academic content via appropriate instruction

• Develop students’ academic English language proficiency

(Lau v. Nichols; Castañeda v. Pickard; NCLB)

CA ELD Standards: Elements

Grade Level ELD Standards: Section 1: Goal, Critical Principles, At-a-glance Overview Section 2: Elaboration on Critical Principles

• Part I: Interacting in Meaningful Ways• Part II: Learning About How English Works• Part III: Using Foundational Literacy Skills

Overview & Proficiency Level Descriptors (PLDs): Alignment to CCSS for ELA & Literacy CA’s EL Students Proficiency Level Descriptors (PLDs) Structure of the grade level standards

Appendices: Appendix A: Foundational Literacy Skills Appendix B: Learning About How English Works Appendix C: Theory and Research Appendix D: Context, Development, Validation

Glossary of Key Terms

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Multilingual Education Services

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Increasing Literacy Specialization Demands for Readers

Disciplinary & Digital Literacy

Intermediate Literacy

Basic Literacy

What other messaging strategies can you use to promote the 2014 ELA/ELD Framework of integrated Standards in your district/school based on this pyramid of literacy?

Select a component of the Active Implementation Framework and explain its possible implication for your work:

I selected …

I think an implication for my work that I will take back to my district is…

The Active Implementation Framework and the Districts’ CCSS/ELD Standards Roll Out

Resources• ELA/ELD Framework:

http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/rl/cf/

• CA CCSS for ELA/Literacy Standards:

http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/documents/finalelaccssstandards.pdf

• CA ELD Standards:

http://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/el/er/eldstandards.asp

• eStandards App

http://scoecurriculum.net/estandards/support