How many years should it take to transition from the current state standards and assessments to CCSS?
Three
100
What does CCSS want school staff and students to work towards?
Common goals
100
Name one of the priorities for the CCSS and new assessments.
Professional development requirements, text complexity, breadth of writing, and mathematics, interdisciplinary instruction.
100
What does summative assessment measure?
OF learning
200
What should schools have ready by 2014 based on the CCSS?
Assessments
200
What is one way we could implement change into our school today?
Looping, narrowing the curriculum, better student teacher relationships, develop interdisciplinary lessons, and lessons that are rich in rigor and relevance.
200
What is one of the popular "R" words for implementing CCSS?
Rigor, Relationships and Relevance
200
What do we want to implement across the curriculum?
Literacy
200
What does formative assessment measure?
FOR learning
300
What will teachers need to make the adjustments in their instructional strategies to teach the standards successfully?
Resources, tools and time
300
How do you create an effective Culture for Change in the classroom?
Communication of student expectations, complete collaboration, teacher responsibility of the students, teacher evaluation
300
What methodology does CCSS use to help plan and prioritize areas that need improving?
The International Center's Rigor/Relevance Framework
300
Name an area that we will need professional development in order to implement CCSS.
Technology, differentiated instruction and assessment
300
What is critical to prepare students for changes in the assessments?
An assessment plan
400
What type of committee will help strengthen organizational leadership?
Steering committee
400
What are the elements of the DSEI model?
Organizational Leadership, Instructional Leadership and Teaching
400
What is a way that you can help a teacher who is weak in interdisciplinary techniques?
Pair with a teacher who is strong in the area.
400
How can you track student improvement?
Ongoing assessment
400
How can we ensure that the teachers assessment items are aligned to the CCSS?
Establish an ongoing monitoring program
500
What are the three primary colors?
Red, Yellow and Blue
500
Name one of the five tests on the Fitness Gram.
Sit-ups, Push-ups, Pacer test, Sit and Reach, and Height and Weight
500
What is the classification system for our non-fiction books?
Dewey Decimal System
500
Name one of the four areas students are tested in to qualify for gifted services.
Mental Ability, Achievement, Creativity and Motivation
500
How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?