Integrating EQuIP into Your State’s
Common Core State Standards
Implementation Strategy
Tuesday, April 29th
3:00-4:00 p.m. ET
Alissa Peltzman, Vice President of State Policy & Implementation Support, Achieve
Sasheen Phillips, Director of EQuIP and OER, Achieve
Reflections from State & District Leaders
• Welcome and Introductions
• Overview of EQuIP
• Reflections from State and District
Leaders
• EQuIP Resources and Tools
• FAQ
Webinar Facilitators
Alissa Peltzman
Vice President, State Policy and Implementation
Support
[email protected]
Sasheen Phillips
Director, EQuIP and OER
[email protected]
Overview and Objectives of EQuIP
EQuIP = Educators Evaluating the Quality of Instructional Products
• EQuIP builds on a collaborative effort of education leaders from
Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island that Achieve facilitated. The
outcome of that effort was the development of the “Tri-State Rubrics” and a
quality review process designed to determine the quality and alignment of
instructional lessons and units to the CCSS.
The objectives are two-fold:
• Increase the supply of high quality lessons and units aligned to the CSSS that
are available to elementary, middle, and high school teachers as soon as
possible; and,
• Build the capacity of educators to evaluate and improve the quality of
instructional materials for use in their classrooms and schools.
EQuIP Rubrics
• The EQuIP rubrics are designed to evaluate:
— Lessons that include instructional activities and assessments aligned to the
CCSS that may extend over a few class periods or days
— Units that include integrated and focused lessons aligned to the CCSS that
extend over a longer period of time
— The rubric is NOT designed to evaluate a single task or activity
• The intent is not to endorse a particular curriculum, product or
template.
The Rubrics Organizes Criteria
that Describe Quality Lessons/Units
Criteria that define the rubric are organized to describe quality in four dimensions.
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Roles & Sample Uses
Role
Sample uses
State education agency
staff
• Vetting materials to post on websites
• Providing quality control/quality assurance with vendors
• Creating model units
Superintendents
• Vetting materials to post on websites
• Providing quality control/quality assurance with vendors
• Creating model units
Instructional Leaders &
Curriculum Coaches
• Guiding professional learning community conversations about
selecting materials and providing feedback on lesson and unit
plans
• Integrating into professional learning as a way to study the CCSS
• Growing leaders by creating opportunities to create, vet and/or
share instructional materials
• Producing useful data about the quality and alignment of
instructional materials and the capacity of educators
Classroom Teachers
• Guiding the creation of new materials
• Reviewing and refining existing materials
Benefits of the EQuIP Quality Review Process
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Collaboration – The EQuIP Quality Review Process is a collegial process used to
come to common understanding and agreement about the alignment and
quality of instructional materials across classrooms, schools, districts and
states.
Consistency – When a set of common criteria are used, all students, regardless
of zip code or classroom, have instructional materials that set the same high
standards and expectations.
Equity – Educators across classrooms, districts, and states identify and use
instructional materials that set the same rigorous standards for all students.
Efficiency and Cost Effectiveness – Instead of each teacher, school, or state
developing all of its own instructional materials, states now have multiple
partners among whom they can share resources.
Innovation – As model lessons and units are reviewed, identified, and posted,
educators share effective ways to organize and plan CCSS-aligned instruction.
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Reflections from State & District Leaders
Name
Position
Organization
Merri Ann Drake
Idaho Core Coach
Idaho State Department
of Education
Elissa Farmer
Curriculum Specialist
Seattle Public Schools
Terri King-Hunt
Gifted Support Specialist
Atlanta Public Schools
Linda Schoenbrodt
Elementary Mathematics
Program Specialist
Maryland Department of
Education
Amy Youngblood
Founder
Eduoptimus
www.achieve.org/equip
EQuIP Peer Review Panel
Materials Submission Process
• Purpose: Identify lessons and units that best illustrate the cognitive demands of
the CCSS. The intent is not to endorse a particular curriculum, product, or
template.
• Materials Submission: Individual, state, district, school or organization may
submit instructional materials aligned to the CCSS for review by the EQuIP Peer
Review Panel in order to provide educators across the country with various
models and templates of high quality and CCSS-aligned lesson and unit plans.
• EQuIP Exemplars: Lessons and units identified as “Exemplars” and “Exemplars if
Improved” will be posted on Achieve’s website and shared broadly.
http://lessons.achieve.org/
Contact Information
www.achieve.org/equip
Alissa Peltzman
Vice President, State Policy and Implementation Support, Achieve
[email protected] or 202-419-1573
Sasheen Phillips
Director, EQuIP and OER, Achieve
[email protected] or 202-669-0143
Anne Bowles
Senior Policy Associate, Achieve
[email protected] or 202-419-1553