Common Core Catalog by Solution Tree

Solutions CoMMoN CoRE

for

Implementation

Here’s the bottom line: At Solution Tree, we are more equipped than anyone else to help you implement the CCSS. Our books, online courses, events, and on-site PD all reflect the expertise of leading researchers and practitioners, who offer you their personalized help, tailored to your school’s or district’s specifications. You’ll find their commitment to transformative learning mirrored in the quality of each of our Common Core resources.

Contents

Featured Events

Mathematics

Literacy

Assessment

Instruction

Supporting Resources

solution-tree.com

800.733.6786

Common Core Pathways

Lead . Understand . Transition . Teach . Implement . Assess

Our collection of Common Core services provides practical classroom strategies for sustainable implementation. We’ll partner with you to develop a comprehensive professional development plan based on your most critical challenges. For guaranteed success with the Common Core, Solution Tree experts will take you through these crucial steps:

Leading in the Common Core • Support a culture of professionalism and collaborative change. • Initiate standards-based instructional changes with faculty and staff. • Provide scaffolding, coaching, and feedback through PD, instructional rounds, and conferencing.

Understanding the Common Core • Gain a comprehensive overview of the CCSS. • Learn what distinguishes the CCSS from current state standards. • Outline and prioritize next steps for implementation.

Transitioning to the Common Core • Identify the gap between current practices and the expectations of the CCSS. • Unpack, repack, and bundle the CCSS into meaningful units of study. • Power implementation with CCSS-aligned resources.

Teaching with rigor and relevance • Transform instructional practice by modeling and scaffolding 21st century skill development. • Design CCSS-aligned lessons that emphasize critical thinking. • Implement performance assessments in the classroom.

Implementing the Common Core for Mathematics

• Recognize the conceptual understanding and procedural fluency shifts for mathematics. • Integrate the research-affirmed CCSS Mathematical Practices into current instruction. • Develop high-quality assessment processes, and design effective units and lessons.

Implementing the Common Core for English Language Arts

• Identify the conceptual shifts in the CCSS for English language arts. • Weave anchor standards and foundational skills into English language arts and other subjects. • Incorporate strategies that emphasize text complexity and close reading.

Assessing with rigor and relevance • Gain advanced understanding of the PARCC and SBAC assessment frameworks. • Identify the gap between current practices and the expectations of the CCSS. • Create common formative assessments that integrate CCSS-aligned questions.

Learn more!

solution-tree.com/cc-pd 888.763.9045

Featured Events Annual Conference on Common Core standards and Assessment April 30–May 2

Phoenix, AZ

Schools throughout the nation face a new challenge of transitioning to the Common Core State Standards. This conference offers a range of assessment strategies and the time to explore, network, and discover the tools that will work best for you.

Douglas B. Reeves

Robert J. Marzano

timothy D. Kanold

Douglas Fisher

Cassandra Erkens

Robin J. Fogarty

Diane J. Briars

Nancy Frey

Mary Kim Schreck

Learning Outcomes • Design standards-based assessments that tell you immediately whether your students are hitting their learning targets. • Examine how instruction and assessment will need to change in order for students to be successful with the CCSS for mathematics and English language arts. • Determine how to “power” the Common Core. • Learn the current status of the assessment consortia (PARCC and Smarter Balanced), and analyze content-specific implications for your school or district.

neW! Common Core nOW institute August 12–13

Boston, MA

You’ve unpacked the standards and started the implementation process. Now our experts take you deeper, equipping you with techniques for tackling specific requirements for English language arts and mathematics. Learn how to prepare for major instructional shifts embedded in the standards.

Cassandra Erkens

Douglas Fisher

Robin J. Fogarty

timothy D. Kanold

Juli K. Dixon

Francis (Skip) Fennell

Learning Outcomes • Examine mathematical practices and thinking shifts necessary for both students and teachers to learn important concepts and procedures. • Learn how to call on all students to apply complex reasoning to real-world issues and challenges. • Gain up-to-date information on the work of the PARCC and Smarter Balanced assessment consortia. • Acquire strategies proven to help students develop the critical thinking skills demanded by the Common Core.

Mary Kim Schreck

solution-tree.com

800.733.6786

Featured Events implementing Common Core standards With total instructional Alignment Workshops March 18–19 April 17–18 April 22–23 october 1–2 october 7–8

Atlanta, gA Albuquerque, NM St. Charles, Mo Bellevue, WA San Diego, CA

Plan ahead to ensure a seamless transition from current state standards to the new national Common Core Standards. These workshops are designed to help forward-thinking schools and districts prepare teachers and administrators to smoothly accomplish this transition.

lisa Carter

Learning Outcomes • Learn tools and processes to successfully unpack and align the national Common Core Standards through curriculum, assessment, and quality instruction. • Write clear learning goals that are specific, measurable, and aligned to higher-order thinking. • Create high-quality assessments designed to frequently measure individual student learning progress. • Explore vertical and horizontal teams that embed flexible grouping and differentiated instructional practices.

Assessments for state and Common Core standards Workshops March 25–26 April 15–16 November 14–15

Boston, MA glenview, il Santa Ana, CA

Come with a team of K–12 teachers and create performance tasks, student checklists, and rubrics correlated to your curriculum and the Common Core State Standards. Leave with assessments that target collaboration, communication, and critical-thinking skills to prepare students for standardized tests.

Kay Burke

Learning Outcomes • Review the six shifts in the CCSS. • Preview assessments proposed by SBAC and PARCC. • Target and repack essential state standards or the CCSS into teacher checklists to guide instruction. • Recognize the difference between a standards-referenced classroom and a standards-embedded classroom. • Use the “language of the standards” to develop curriculum, instructional strategies, and assessments.

Mathematics Common Core Mathematics in a PLC at WorktM series edited by timothy d. Kanold By thomasenia lott Adams, harold Asturias, Diane J. Briars, John A. Carter, Juli K. Dixon, Francis (Skip) Fennell, David Foster, Mardi A. gale, timothy D. Kanold, Beth McCord Kobett, Matthew R. larson, Mona toncheff, Jonathan A. Wray, and gwendolyn Zimmermann

These teacher guides illustrate how to sustain successful implementation of the Common Core State Standards for mathematics. Discover what students should learn and how they should learn it at each grade level. Comprehensive and research-affirmed analysis tools and strategies will help you and your collaborative team develop and assess student demonstrations of deep conceptual understanding and procedural fluency.

Solution Tree is proud to partner with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and distinguished mathematics experts to copublish this series aligned with the CCSS and PLC at WorkTM process.

Leader’s Guide 31BCD–BKF559 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-936765-47-8

Grades K–2

Grades 3–5

Grades 6–8

High school

31BCD–BKF566 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936765-97-3

31BCD–BKF568 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-00-6

31BCD–BKF574 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-10-5

31BCD–BKF561 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936765-50-8

Online Course

Common Core state standards in Mathematics, Grades 3–8 Presenters: Diane J. Briars and timothy D. Kanold In this timely and practical course, Dr. Kanold and Dr. Briars explain both the whys and the how-tos for implementing the CCSS. You’ll gain strategies for teaching for understanding, tools for planning lessons and evaluating assessments, and classroom-ready tasks that put theory into practice. You’ll also visit classrooms where educators are piloting the CCSS to see their results. CEU Graduate Credit

31BCD–KDS034 $279.00 31BCD–KDS035 $499.00

Included eBook: Common Core Mathematics in a PLC at Work™, Grades 3–5

solution-tree.com

800.733.6786

Mathematics let our presenters come to you! Book a customized on-site PD experience today.

timothy D. Kanold

introduce the CCSS to your faculty and community.

implement the CCSS for mathematics through the PLC process.

discover how your curriculum already aligns to the CCSS.

design assessments and rubrics aligned to the CCSS.

Diane J. Briars

Measurable results start here.

Francis (Skip) Fennell

solution-tree.com/speakers/pd-services 888.763.9045

Common Core Mathematics in a PLC Workshops october 3–4 october 9–10

Bellevue, WA glenview, il

Gain a plan to focus your time, energy, and resources on ways to successfully implement the CCSS for mathematics by reflecting on current instruction, content, and assessment design. Learn practices to develop a comprehensive framework for improved student achievement.

timothy D. Kanold

Juli K. Dixon

Learning Outcomes • Define the gap between current instruction and assessment practice and the expectations of the CCSS for mathematics. • Understand current expectations of the PARCC or SBAC assessment consortia. • Design a transition plan that reflects the paradigm shifts required for successful student experiences with the CCSS for mathematics.

Jonathan A. Wray

• Commit to implementation of the transition plan for Common Core readiness. • Use and apply the online resources for the analysis and development of effective mathematics lesson design and high-quality mathematics assessment tools and processes.

Literacy Available April 2013

Common Core english Language Arts in a PLC at WorktM series By douglas Fisher, nancy Frey, and Cynthia L. uline neW! These teacher guides illustrate how to sustain successful implementation of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts in K–12 instruction, curriculum, assessment, and intervention practices within the powerful Professional Learning Communities at Work™ process. Teachers will discover the fundamental learning targets necessary for college and career readiness and how students can master them for each grade level. Each book includes comprehensive and research-affirmed analysis tools and strategies to help collaborative teams develop and assess student understanding.

Solution Tree is proud to partner with the International Reading Association and distinguished English language arts experts to copublish this series aligned with the CCSS and PLC at WorkTM process.

Leader’s Guide 31BCD–BKF578 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-13-6

Grades K–2

Grades 3–5

Grades 6–8

31BCD–BKF580 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-16-7

31BCD–BKF582 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-19-8

31BCD–BKF584 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-22-8

Grades 9–12

31BCD–BKF586 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-25-9

neW! Common Core for english Language Arts Workshops March 27–28 April 8–9

Boston, MA Santa Ana, CA

September 23–24 December 2–3

St. Paul, MN Bellevue, WA

The CCSS for English language arts demand that students learn to justify their responses with evidence and to read increasingly complex text. Learn what changes to curriculum and instruction are necessary to meet the standards and ensure student achievement. Learning Outcomes • Identify the conceptual shifts in the CCSS for English language arts. • Enumerate the anchor standards in reading, writing, speaking and listening, language, and foundational skills. • Comprehend the components of text complexity, text-dependent questions, and close reading.

Douglas Fisher

Nancy Frey

• Analyze lesson vignettes and videos for compliance with the key tenets of the CCSS. • Appraise the intervention efforts available at a selected school or district to determine strengths and needs.

solution-tree.com/workshops 8

solution-tree.com

800.733.6786

Literacy 20 Literacy strategies to Meet the Common Core Increasing Rigor in Middle & High School Classrooms By elaine K. Mcewan-Adkins and Allyson J. Burnett neW! With the advent of the Common Core State Standards and high expectations with regard to content literacy, some secondary teachers are scrambling for what to do and how to do it. This book provides an accessible plan for implementing content literacy and offers 20 research-based literacy strategies designed to help students meet those standards and become expert readers. 328 pages; grades 6–12

“Whether used in the lesson preparation or during professional development activities, this guide virtually guarantees success in making the transition away from random standards to the Common Core.” —Beth Madison, principal, Robert gray Middle School, oregon

31BCD–BKF588 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-28-0

Online Course

teaching reading and Comprehension to english Learners, Grades K–5 Presenter: Margarita Calderón Align instructional practice for English learners with the Common Core! Dr. Calderón outlines techniques for elementary teachers seeking to improve the reading and comprehension skills of ELs in their classrooms. You will be led through the steps needed to select vocabulary for reading, preteach this vocabulary, and model comprehension strategies like think-alouds and partner reading. Writing and editing strategies complete the picture. CEU Graduate Credit

31BCD–KDS019 $279.00 31BCD–KDS020 $499.00

Included eBook: Teaching Reading & Comprehension to English Learners, K–5

let our presenters come to you! Book a customized on-site PD experience today.

Margarita Calderón

Douglas Douglas Fisher Fisher

integrate literacy and academic language development across all content areas.

Create strategies to build content rigor with the CCSS for English language arts.

Build awareness of the impact of cultural understanding on student literacy.

develop students’ ability to read complex text.

Plan lessons that integrate literacy, language, and content.

Measurable results start here. Nancy Nancy Frey Frey

Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins

solution-tree.com/speakers/pd-services 888.763.9045

Assessment Online Course

Assessment and the Common Core state standards Presenter: Kay Burke Construct a balanced set of assessment tools that will improve instruction as well as gauge its success. Dr. Burke demonstrates how to repack the Common Core State Standards with a collaborative team, generate checklists and rubrics, share meaningful learning objectives with students, and craft performance tasks that will motivate students in every grade. Gain tools and strategies you can use immediately. Learning Outcomes • Identify power standards. • Repack the Common Core State Standards as part of a collaborative team. CEU Graduate Credit

31BCD– KDS013 $279.00 31BCD– KDS014 $499.00

Included eBook: Balanced Assessment

• Collaborate with grade-level or subject-area teams to create common assessments. • Create performance tasks, checklists, and rubrics appropriate to your grade level or subject area. • Use formal and informal assessment tools to improve instruction and evaluate mastery of the standards.

let our presenters come to you! Book a customized on-site PD experience today.

Kim Bailey

Cassandra Erkens

Kay Douglas Burke Fisher

Chris Jakicic

Eileen Depka

see the need for an assessment system rather than just assessing for assessment’s sake.

Create assessments that are designed to provide data about what to do next for students.

develop and refine effective common formative assessment with a focus on the Common Core State Standards.

Make data processes effective and efficient in the real world of schools.

Sharon V. Kramer

Measurable results start here. Angela laBounty

Beth Parrott Reynolds

laurie Robinson

solution-tree.com

800.733.6786

solution-tree.com/speakers/pd-services 888.763.9045

Assessment neW! Assessment nOW institute october 21–23

Atlanta, gA

Discover how to connect instructional and assessment practices to prepare your students for success in a highly competitive, global, and informationrich world. Leading CCSS and assessment authors will share in-depth expectations of the standards and provide techniques for incorporating assessments and data.

Victoria Bernhardt

Douglas Fisher

tammy heflebower

tom hierck

timothy D. Kanold

Robert J. Marzano

Chris Jakicic

Beth Parrott Reynolds

Nicole Vagle

Learning Outcomes • Learn how to use common assessments to integrate the CCSS. • Establish frameworks for reinforcing rigor and relevance in assessment design. • Create assessment tasks that integrate collaboration, creativity, communication, and higher-level thinking skills. • Explore item development in assessment design, and create rubrics aligned to performance tasks.

Hungry for more? Pick up new strategies and techniques at one of our events. Build your network, and collaborate face-to-face with other educators. See page 5 for featured Common Core assessment events, or view a comprehensive listing of all events online.

solution-tree.com/cc-events

Instruction How to teach thinking skills Within the Common Core 7 Key Student Proficiencies of the New National Standards By James A. Bellanca, robin J. Fogarty, and Brian M. Pete Packed with examples and tools, this practical guide prepares teachers across all grade levels and content areas to teach the most critical cognitive skills from the Common Core State Standards. Discover a doable three-phase model of explicit teaching, guided practice in content-based lessons, and authentic application in standards-based performance tasks that will strengthen students’ ability to learn across the curriculum. 240 pages Benefits • Explore phase I, Talk-Through, during which teachers explicitly teach students a critical thinking skill. • Utilize the content-based lessons included in phase II, Walk-Through, when specific guidance will ensure proper application of the skill. • Learn how to make a direct connection between the selected thinking skill and the new standards with the CCSS performance tasks modeled in phase III.

31BCD–BKF576 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-07-5

using Common Core standards to enhance Classroom instruction & Assessment By robert J. Marzano, david C. Yanoski, Jan K. Hoegh, and Julia A. simms With tammy Heflebower and Phil Warrick

neW! Discover how to weave an in-depth understanding of the Common Core into successful classroom practice with this two-part resource. You’ll learn how to power the standards with guided assessment and measure student progress in a way that accurately reflects learning. Included are hundreds of ready-to-use, research-based proficiency scales for both English language arts and mathematics. 304 pages Benefits • Gain a clear understanding of what the CCSS are, how they are organized, and how they can be used in the classroom. • Learn how to integrate 21st century thinking and reasoning into instruction. 31BCD–BKL015 $34.95 ISBN 978-0-9833512-9-0

• Design learning goals and proficiency standards geared toward individual students.

Published by Marzano Research Laboratory

solution-tree.com

800.733.6786

Instruction let our presenters come to you! Book a customized on-site PD experience today.

James A. Bellanca

Douglas lisa Fisher Carter

Robin J. Fogarty

Brian M. Pete

Gain a comprehensive view of the demands and expectations of the CCSS.

develop high-yield strategies for creating assessments that align with the CCSS.

Create a safe and secure environment that leverages the CCSS to maximize student learning.

Modify instructional practice to ensure students are college or career ready by the time they graduate.

Measurable results start here. solution-tree.com/speakers/pd-services 888.763.9045

receive updates on new Common Core releases!

The School Leaderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Guide to the Common Core: Achieving Results Through Rigor and Relevance By James A. Bellanca, Robin J. Fogarty, Brian M. Pete, and Rebecca L. Stinson

solution-tree.com/updates 13

Supporting Resources What Principals need to Know About teaching and Learning Mathematics

teaching students to read Like detectives Comprehending, Analyzing, and Discussing Text By douglas Fisher, nancy Frey, and diane Lapp

By timothy d. Kanold, diane J. Briars, and Francis (skip) Fennell

31BCD–BKF501 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-55-8

31BCD–BKF499 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-52-7

Prompt students to become the sophisticated readers, writers, and thinkers they need to be to achieve higher learning. The authors explore the important relationship between text, learner, and learning. With an array of methods and assignments to establish critical literacy in a discussion-based and reflective classroom, you’ll encourage students to find meaning and cultivate thinking from even the most challenging expository texts. 176 pages

Ensure a challenging mathematics experience for every learner, every day. This must-have resource offers support and encouragement for improved mathematics achievement across every grade level of your school. With an emphasis on Principles and Standards for School Mathematics and Common Core State Standards, this book covers the importance of mathematics content, learning and instruction, and mathematics assessment. 136 pages; grades K–8 A Joint Publication With the National Association of Elementary School Principals

Common Language Assessment for english Learners

Common Formative Assessment A Toolkit for Professional Learning Communities at Work™

By Margo Gottlieb

By Kim Bailey and Chris Jakicic Foreword by richard duFour and rebecca duFour

31BCD–BKF352 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-935249-57-3

31BCD–BKF538 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-936765-14-0

Learn how to plan, implement, and evaluate common language assessments for your English learners. With this step-by-step guide, teachers, school leaders, and administrators will find organizing principles, lead questions, and action steps all directing you toward collaborative assessment. Yield meaningful information for and about EL learning preferences, build student self-assessment, and inform your instructional decision making based on reliable results. 192 pages

solution-tree.com

800.733.6786

Teams that engage in designing, using, and responding to common formative assessments are more knowledgeable about their own standards, more assessment literate, and able to develop more strategies for helping all students learn. In this conversational guide, the authors offer tools, templates, and protocols to incorporate common formative assessments into the practices of a PLC to monitor and enhance student learning. 144 pages

solution-tree.com

Solution Tree

Orders

800.733.6786

555 North Morton Street Bloomington, IN 47404

FAX

Priority Code

555812.336.7790 North Morton Street Bloomington, IN 47404

Ship to

 US

PRESORTED STANDARD US POSTAGE 31BCD PAID SOLUTION TREE

——

Bill to (if different)

 International

Name_____________________________________________________

Position___________________________________________________

Organization______________________________________________

Address___________________________________________________

City/State/Zip______________________________________________

Daytime Phone____________________________________________

Fax_______________________________________________________

Email (required)___________________________________________ Please recycle.

Email (required)___________________________________________

For event registration, visit solution-tree.com or call 800.733.6786.

 Yes  No Continue sending materials from Solution Tree.

Item Number

Title

Price

Qty.

Total Price

31BCD– 31BCD– 31BCD– 31BCD– 31BCD– 31BCD– SUBTOTAL $2 per item within the continental US $3 per item outside the continental US

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION GUARANTEE If for any reason you are not completely satisfied with any Solution Tree product, you may return the resource (in undamaged and saleable condition) within 30 days of the invoice for a full refund or credit, less shipping and handling.

For rush orders, call 800.733.6786 for pricing.

$4 within the continental US $10 outside the continental US

(required)

Handling (required)

State, provincial, and local taxes may apply. Please see list below. Include tax-exempt form if applicable.

Buy 10 or more of the same title and save! 10–49 copies 10% | 50–99 copies 20% | 100+ copies

Shipping

30%

Tax

GRAND TOTAL

Method of Payment

How did you hear about us?

 Check enclosed (Payable to Solution Tree)  Purchase Order enclosed (See Terms of Payment)  Visa

 MasterCard

 Discover

 American Express

 Catalog or flyer  Email  Print ad  Online ad  Solution Tree website  Word of mouth Other (please specify):———————————————

Card Number____________________________________________________________________

Expiration Date_____________________

Cardholder Name_______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Cardholder Signature___________________________________________________________________________________________________ Terms of Payment

Purchase Orders: Government or institutional purchase orders must include a completed order form. Purchase orders must note payment terms of net 30 days from the date of invoice and include shipping and handling costs. A monthly surcharge of $8.25 will be applied to all past-due invoices. Returns/Refunds: A return authorization number must be obtained prior to any return. Call 800.733.6786 for return authorization. Returns without an authorization number will be denied and returned at the sender’s expense. Refunds must be requested in writing. Customers will not be issued a refund if they have an unpaid balance. Undamaged and saleable resources received after 30 days are subject to a 10% restocking and repackaging fee.

Solution Tree reserves the right to refuse any shipment. Solution Tree will not be responsible for resources lost or damaged in transit. Discounts: Quantity discounts are available on Solution Tree, Marzano Research Laboratory, and Triple Nickel Press titles. Call 800.733.6786. Multiple discounts do not apply. International Orders: Customs charges due upon receipt (if applicable).

Terms of Sale

All prices, offers, and terms are subject to change without notice. Closed Circuit Television rights and Public Broadcast via media such as television and cable television are subject to additional approval and fees. Please call 800.733.6786 to inquire.

Taxes apply in these states:

AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, DE, GA, IA, IL, IN, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, NC, NE, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, TX, UT, WA, WI, and WV

Taxes apply IN CANADA: Add GST, PST, and/or HST.

All purchases made with a personal credit card are subject to applicable taxes.

PRESORTED STANDARD US POSTAGE PAID SOLUTION TREE

555 North Morton Street Bloomington, IN 47404

Please recycle.

Begin the journey to transformative learning! This collection of on-site PD specializing in the Common Core will help you get started.

See page 3 to get started.