Empowering Student Learning: Information Literacy
Teacher-Librarian: A Common Core Cadre by Morgen Larsen
School districts statewide are working quickly to meet Common Core Cadre (TLC3) training sessions. All the curricular, instructional and technological challenges materials and supplies will be provided by Washington of Common Core adoption. What is Common Core State Library and clock hours will be available free and what does it mean for educators in Washington of charge. If you are interesting in receiving more State? Common Core State Standards (CCSS) provide information about these regional training sessions, a consistent, clear understanding of what students are please visit WLMA’s Common Core Standards web expected to learn. These standards currently focus page for links to resources, contact information and to on Math and English Language Arts (ELA) and are join the TLC3 cadre. designed to be robust and relevant to the real world. Unlike previous educational movements, CCSS do not dictate how and what teachers teach. Instead, CCSS establish building blocks of learning that spiral throughout a student’s K-12 education, preparing students for success in college and the workforce. CCSS is not a Federal initiative or mandate. Common Core is a collaborative effort between 46 states and Western Samoa. The Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) established a CCSS Implementation Timeline in 2010. We are now in Phase 3: Building State & District Capacity and Classroom Transitions (Fig. 1) preparing our districts and schools for full-scale adoption and student assessment during the 2014-15 Figure 1. Washington State Common Core State Standards Implementation Timeline, Office of school year. Superintendant of Public Instruction: Teaching and Learning (2012) Washington State Library with the support and cooperation of the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), Washington Library Media Association (WLMA) and state-wide Educational Service Districts (ESDs) are References working together to maximize Common Core training “Common Core State Standards” Washington Library and awareness while simultaneously identifying areas of Media Association. Accessed January 1, 2013. need by region. http://www.wlma.org/ccss Starting with the WLMA regional meetings in March and April of 2013, and continuing in ESD summer institutes in the summer of 2013 and 2014, Morgen Larsen is the Teacher-Librarian at Greenacres Elementary in teacher-librarians throughout Washington will be the Central Valley School District. E-mail: Mlarsen@cvsd.org. able to participate in several 3-hour Teacher-Librarian
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