Standards

**Read for Standards Session**
//Linking for Learning//, p. 10-14

This is probably going to be standards overload. Read ISAIL introductory comments carefully and choose one grade level to go through. Make yourself familiar with the Common Core documents and do some reading of resources on the ISBE website.
 * ISAIL - take a look at the ISAIL Standards.
 * [|ILLINOIS STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION & THE COMMON CORE]
 * [|ELA (English Language Arts)]
 * [|Math]
 * [|NGSS (Science)] & [|Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)]

Agenda & Materials for Session Three
1. Housekeeping
 * Questions about Mission & Vision Assignment
 * Finding scores and feedback from assignments
 * Opportunities

2. Mission & Vision Statements

3. Welcome to the Teaching for Learning Section of Course! Teaching and Learning should be at the heart of what we do as school librarians! All the things we do in terms of learning environment and leadership, should help to further the services we provide to our users in helping them learn and get the resources they need.

4. ISAIL - Illinois Standards Aligned Instruction for Libraries

Layout of ISAIL Using the Framework of ISAIL in curriculum design.
 * Activity:** Digging into the ISAIL Standards (p. 12 in //Linking for Learning//)

You can also locate the ISAIL documents [|here] [|ISAIL in]//[|SLJ]// ISLMA Wiki Sample Lesson Plans

5. Common Core & What it Means for School Libraries [|What Illinois Teachers Should Know About the Common Core] - Video from ISBE

Exposure to Variety of Texts Text Complexity Lexile Text Complexity [|Rubric] - developed by staff at Highland Middle School

[|Appendix B] - text exemplars
 * [|"The Problem with Appendix B" from SLJ]
 * CPS Purchasing List with Common Core

Research [|ELA Standards, structure, and where research falls]

In Practice //[|Chains]// Project

Resources
 * [|School Libraries & the Common Core Resources LiveBinder]
 * [|Common Core Workshop (from Massachusetts)] given by Kristin Fontichiaro

"Common Core Education Standards Face Bipartisan Backlash" - [|NPR, 1/28/14] media type="custom" key="24966182" 6. PARRC (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers) Assessment & School Libraries **Available as on 1/23: PARCC Computer-based Sample Test Items ** @http://www.parcconline.org/computer-based-samples

 The Performance Based Assessment will include a Research Simulation Task in all assessed grades. * Students begin by reading an anchor text that introduces the topic. * EBSR and TECR items ask students to gather key details about the passage to support their understanding. * Students read two additional sources and answer a few questions about each text to learn more about the topic, so they are ready to write the final essay and to show their reading comprehension. * Finally, students mirror the research process by synthesizing their understandings into a writing that uses textual evidence from the sources.

Research Simulation Task, Grades 3-11 The Research Simulation Task is an assessment component worthy of student preparation because it asks students to exercise the career- and college- readiness skills of observation, deduction, and proper use and evaluation of evidence across text types.

In this task, students will analyze an informational topic presented through several articles or multimedia stimuli, the first text being an anchor text that introduces the topic. Students will engage with the texts by answering a series of questions and synthesizing information from multiple sources in order to write two analytic essays.

For more information about the Research Simulation Task, go to the PARCC website:  [|3rd Grade] [|7th Grade] [|11th Grade]

6. NGSS media type="custom" key="24966426" 7. Collection Development Assignment

8. Exit Slip
 * What is one way you can imagine using ISAIL to assist you in your library program once you are in practice?
 * What is one role you can identify for a librarian to help students meet the Common Core State standards?
 * What is one question you have about the application of state and national standards in the school library?

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