Chicago Public Schools Back to School PD presentation by Jeremy Dunn, August 2012

1. CCSS and School Libraries
CPS Department of Libraries
August 2012
Jeremy Dunn, Director, Department of Libraries

2. The instructional role of librarians is
central to the goals of the
Common Core State Standards

3. Instructional Shifts
1. Balancing Informational and Literary Texts
Teacher Librarian’s Role:
•Provide students equal number of informational and literary texts
•Ensure coherent instruction about content
•Teach strategies for informational texts
•Teach “through” and “with” informational texts
•Scaffold for the difficulties that informational texts present to students
•Ask students, “What is connected here? How does this fit together?
What details tell you that?

4. Instructional Shifts
2. Staircase of Complexity
Teacher Librarian’s Role:
•Ensure students are engaged in more complex texts at every grade level
•Engage students in rigorous conversation
•Provide experiences with complex texts
•Give students less to read, let the “re-read”
•More time on more complex texts
•Provide scaffolding when necessary
•Get kids inspired and excited about the fluency and richness of language

5. Instructional Shifts
3. Text-Based Answers
Teacher Librarian’s Role:
•Facilitate evidence-based conversations with students, dependent upon the
text
•Have discipline about asking students where in the text to find evidence
•Plan and conduct rich conversations about the “stuff” that the writer is writing
about.
•Keep students in the text to qualify their conversations answers
•Identify questions that are text-dependent, worth asking/exploring
•Provide students the opportunity to read the text, encounter references to
another text, another event and to dig in more deeply into the text to try and
figure out what is going on

6. Instructional Shifts
4. Writing from Sources
Teacher Librarian’s Role:
•Expect that students will generate their own informational texts (less time on
personal narratives)
•Present opportunities to write from multiple sources about a single topic
•Give opportunities to analyze, synthesize ideas across many texts to draw an
opinion or conclusion
•Find ways to push towards a style of writing where the voice comes from
drawing on powerful, meaningful evidence
•Give permission to students to start to have their own reaction and draw their
own connections

7. Instructional Shifts
5. Academic Vocabulary
Teacher Librarian’s Role:
•Develop students’ ability to use and access words that show up in everyday
text and that may be slightly out of reach
•Be strategic about the kind of vocabulary you’re developing
•Determine the words that students are going to read most frequently and
spend time mostly on those words

8. CCSS Standards > Research
• Short / sustained research based on focused ?s
• Gathering information, assessing credibility
• Integrating information
• Textual evidence to support analysis, reflection

9. Anchor Standards for Research Skills
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10. Anchor Standards for Research Skills

13. Search:
AASL Standards

15. Skills and Beyond
• Dispositions
• Responsibilities
• Self-assessment

16. Search:
Nets Standards

19. http://www.parcconline.org

20. Next Steps
District-wide Research Model
• Literacy/Social Studies
• Science / Math
• Integrated with Ed Tech Framework