Iowa Core
Alignment Session 3
Implementation
January 2011
Sue Updegraff
Keystone AEA
Preparing for INITIAL
Alignment
 First Pass
by July 1, 2012
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 Purpose: Enacted to Intended
 Independent Reflection
 One Course/Subject/Grade to
one skill set = 90 minutes
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Background Information for
Teachers
 Multi-Pass Experiences with
Essential Concepts/Skills
 Curriculum Terms
 Alignment Terms and Chart
 District Curriculum
Framework/Schema
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Outcome 4 of the PLAN
“District leaders and teachers
monitor and use data to increase
the degree of alignment of each
and every student’s enacted
curriculum to the Iowa CORE
(intended).”
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Not evaluative or judgmental
Collective effort needed
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Future Passes
 Content depth
o cognitive complexity
o emphasis
 Assessment
 Instruction/Strategies
 Resources
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First Pass
 Enacted (taught) to intended
(Iowa CORE)
 Horizontal
 Topical
 Fine-grained
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Process for First Pass
1. Review Background Information
2. Identify Skill Set(s) for Reflection
3. Identify Support Documents
(enacted diary, lesson plan, etc.)
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Process for First Pass
4. Basics of Coding
 determining extent of current agreement
between enacted and intended (agreement
vs. align)
 “Did I teach this?”
 document what actually happened, not
what was “suppose” to happen
 no extra points for high agreement
 professionalism
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Process for First Pass
5. Key Alignment Question
What did students get the
opportunity to learn during
the school year?
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Guidelines
1. Sameness
 one-to-one correspondence
 dig into each line of Iowa
CORE
 explicitly covered
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Guidelines
2. No squinting (thinking really hard)
3. Time limit (short)
4. Simple yes or no about whether
students “had the opportunity to learn”
5. Follow “Cheat Sheet”
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Tutorial
and
Demonstration
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Engage in Coding
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What Happens After First Pass?
 Collect and Analyze Data of
Measured Alignment/Agreement
 Decisions/Plan based on Data
gaps
overlaps
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Database of Coverage
Action through PLCs
Pedagogy, assessment and
related issues in future
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PLC Plan
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