Colloquium
November 2014
Visit the Sweetwater Union High School District Professional Development Calendar to keep up with everything the SUHSD is doing to connect people to learning opportunities.
Bookmark the link to the Google Drive Calendar. Contact Edna Espinoza in Curriculum, Instruction & Professional Development to request additions or changes to the calendar.
Internal Assessments
District and Site Specialists work to develop Internal Assessments aligned with written and taught curriculum
Visit the Research & Evaluation Canvas course to access Semester One Performance Tasks in all four core content areas! (self-enroll by clicking this link). Spanish versions of these tasks are also posted to Canvas. See what your students experience in all content areas.
Please notify a Site or District Curriculum Specialist (see list at bottom of the page) when you have administered a Performance Task in your content area! We need your help as we work to select and post ANCHOR PAPERS at each score point on the rubric. Anchors are critical for calibrated scoring.
Visit Curriculum & Professional Development Canvas course to learn more about internally-designed and validated Semester One Final Exams. Teachers in most core content-area classes will receive one class set of finals for each section they teach; ELA and high school H/SS finals will also be accompanied by "text-only" versions teachers may duplicate for individual student annotation.
Please notify a Site or District Curriculum Specialist (see list at bottom of the page) when you have administered a Performance Task in your content area! We need your help as we work to select and post ANCHOR PAPERS at each score point on the rubric. Anchors are critical for calibrated scoring.
Visit Curriculum & Professional Development Canvas course to learn more about internally-designed and validated Semester One Final Exams. Teachers in most core content-area classes will receive one class set of finals for each section they teach; ELA and high school H/SS finals will also be accompanied by "text-only" versions teachers may duplicate for individual student annotation.
Plan now to maximize the value of Semester One Performance Tasks!
Teachers should meet in course-alike teams to study and respond to student work. See this recent history/social science application of Steps for Calibrated Scoring.
See this nine-minute video to learn about steps to calibrated scoring:
Second Round of Cohort and Zone Workshops is under way!
San Ysidro High School English teachers at Zone 1A workshop on 10/16
Math teachers working at Olympian High School on 10/27
Site specialists lead English/Language Arts Zone worksop at GJH on 10/16
"South Bay Performance Task Showcase" Planning Team works to bring relevance to tasks
Representatives from local businesses, industry and post-secondary institutions met in October to review and critique Semester One Performance Tasks for IMI, IMIII and Biology. Feedback will drive development of Semester Two tasks in those subjects in order to elicit student products worthy of display in South Bay businesses. Members of the South County Economic Development Council (SCEDC) are helping promote the project.
Legacy Digital Graphics originally conceived of a "Recognition Program" for students
Bob Crowe (Legacy Digital Graphics)
Working to link academics and application in performance tasks
Daniel Cohen (SUHSD Curriculum Specialist) and Michael Meacham (Director of Economic Development, City of Chula Vista)
Postsecondary and business representatives review Performance Tasks
Ricardo Cisneros (SUHSD CTE), Bruce Arnold (UCSD), Mimi Williams (SUHSD Curriculum Specialist), Terry McKearney (business representative), Balthazar Perez (business representative), and Rafaela Santa Cruz (SDSU)
District and Site Specialists engage with national and regional curriculum experts
Phil Daro, the co-author of the Common Core Math Standards, spoke at University of San Diego on October 10/15/14. Many SUHSD teachers attended California Math Council South in Palm Springs October 23-25.
Phil Daro explains CCSSM curricular shifts at USD on 10/15
Daniel Cohen, Katrine Czajkowski & Essie Orozco at CMC South
Esmeralda Orozco (SUH) led a workshop on writing in math
David Foster presented a session on Mathematics at CMC South:
Academic Literacy and English Learners: Important Reseach
See these recent AERA and other publications:
- Transformational Opportunities: Language and Literacy Instruction for English Language Learners in the Common Core Era in the United States (Kibler, Walqui, Bunch; 2014)
- A Review of the Literature on Teaching Academic English to English Language Learners (DiCerbo, Anstrom, Baker, Rivera; September, 2014)
- Science and Language for English Language Learners in Relation to the Next Generation Science Standards and with Implications for Common Core State Standards for English, Language Arts and Mathematics (Lee, Quinn, Valdez; April, 2013)
SUHSD Office of Curriculum, Instruction & Professional Development
Roman Del Rosario, Executive Director of Curriculum & Instruction
Katrine Czajkowski, Lead Curriculum Specialist
Daniel Cohen & Mimi Williams, Math Curriculum Specialists
Gina Vattuone & Rhea Faeldonea-Walker, ELA Curriculum Specialists
Ana Garcia & Melanie Brown, Science Curriculum Specialists
Kelly Leon & Olga Loya-Estrada, History/Social Science Curriculum Specialists
Email: katrine.czajkowski@sweetwaterschools.org
Website: http://curriculum.suhsd.k12.ca.us/
Location: 1130 5th Avenue, Chula Vista, CA, United States
Phone: 619-691-586