Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Who Has a Plan?

This space has been focused on model curriculum units for the last several weeks. On a visit to California schools, I was reminded of the importance of beginning at the beginning.

Out in California, districts are cranking out CCSS implementation plans-- road maps defining what districts will do over the next three years to bring to classrooms the shifts defined by the Common Core. Here's an example from the Martinez Unified Schools. When viewing the Martinez plan, note that it does not yet include SMART goals. (Fun fact: California has a thousand districts.)

Who among us has created an implementation plan, especially one as detailed and comprehensive as that outlined in PARCC's Implementation Guide?

If your district has a plan, please let me know. And if you'd like help creating one, get in touch. Or if you think you don't need to map out your plans, please explain why in the comment section below.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Right now I'm focusing on creating a professional development plan and a PD calendar and schedule of PD events for the coming year. So I don't have a Common Core Implementation Plan yet, in part because I have no sense about how long implementation will take. I'm willing to get help from you and/or meet with other curriculum directors who are in a similar boat.

Molly said...

Here is the link to the California implementation plan for the state.

http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cc/documents/ccssimpsysplanforca.doc

Paul Bocko said...

We are moving into year two of our "plan". That is a focus on math, we worked on ELA this year. I wish I could say we had a comprehensive plan and the bottom line is that I work in four quasi-independent schools that are headed in the same direction focusing on tasks specific to the school.