Getting Ready for College, Careers, and the Common Core: What Every Educator Needs to Know -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- The Social Justice Imperative -- Putting Ideas into Practice: Easier Said Than Done -- The Fork in the Road -- An Unexpected Turn into College Readiness -- Taking Readiness to the National Level -- How Far Have We Come toward Readiness? -- Acknowledgments -- The Author -- Introduction -- The Common Core State Standards, Student Ownership of Learning, and College and Career Readiness -- The Role of Elementary and Secondary Schools -- The Elementary School as Frame Setter -- Secondary School, a Time for Students to Set Aspirations and Define Interests -- Overview of the Chapters -- Using This Book to Support Implementation of the Common Core State Standards -- Design of the Book -- What the Book Is Not About -- What This Book Is About -- Chapter 1: The New Challenge: All Students College and Career Ready -- Why College and Career Readiness for All? -- The Changing US Economy and the Changing Nature of Work -- Economic Impact of Education -- From Vocational Education to Career Technical Education -- The Academic Core -- Creating College Readiness and Career Readiness for All -- The Rise of College Readiness Standards -- Chapter 2: College Readiness, Career Readiness: Same or Different? -- Exploring Readiness More Deeply -- Academic Content and Cross-Disciplinary Skills -- The Common Core Connection to College and Career Readiness -- The Key Skills All Students Need -- Connecting Student Interests and Goals to College and Career Readiness -- Levels of Readiness -- My Definition of College and Career Ready -- Chapter 3: The Four Keys to College and Career Readiness -- The Four Keys: An Overview -- Key Cognitive Strategies -- Key Content Knowledge -- Key Learning Skills and Techniques -- Key Transition Knowledge and Skills.

Key Cognitive Strategies in Depth -- The Five Key Cognitive Strategies -- Teaching to the Key Cognitive Strategies -- Key Content Knowledge in Depth -- What's Important to Know? -- Teaching Key Content Knowledge -- Chapter 4: The Four Keys Continued: Learning Skills and Transition Skills -- Key Learning Skills and Techniques in Depth -- The Achievement Gap -- Ownership of Learning -- Learning Techniques -- Valuing the Key Learning Skills and Techniques -- Key Transition Knowledge and Skills in Depth -- The Five Aspects of Key Transition Skills -- Preparing All Students for the Transition -- The Complexity of College and Career Readiness -- Chapter 5: Toward Deeper Learning -- Some Framing Characteristics of the Learning Process -- Knowledge Complexity Progression -- What Is Deeper Learning? -- Historical Summary -- Why We Need Deeper Learning Now -- Four Models of Deeper Learning -- Hewlett Deeper Learning Model -- National Research Council Education for Life and Work Model -- The Four Keys to College and Career Readiness Model -- Partnership for 21st Century Skills Model -- Comparison of Models -- Overview of Research Foundation for Deeper Learning -- Chapter 6: Deeper Learning at the Classroom Level -- Characteristics of the Deeper Learning Classroom -- Challenges of the Deeper Learning Classroom -- Teacher Understanding of Subject Matter -- Wide Range of Instructional Strategies -- Taking the Time for Deeper Learning -- Creating a Culture of Deeper Learning -- Knowing How to Assess Deeper Learning -- A Closer Look at Scoring Student Work for Deeper Learning -- Deeper Learning, the Common Core State Standards, and College and Career Readiness -- Chapter 7: A Closer Look at the Common Core State Standards -- Where Did the Common Core Come From? -- An Overview of the Common Core State Standards.

Structure and Organization of the English Language Arts and Mathematics Standards -- The Standards for Mathematical Practice -- Organization of the Mathematics Standards -- Reading College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards -- Writing College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards -- Language College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards -- Speaking and Listening College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards -- The Heart of the Challenge of Teaching the Common Core State Standards -- What the Common Core State Standards Don't Do -- Not All Subjects Are Included -- The Standards Are Not a Curriculum -- Proficient Performance Is Not Yet Fully Defined -- Teacher Professional Development Must Be Addressed -- Appendix: Key Elements of the Common Core -- Chapter 8: The Common Core State Standards and College and Career Readiness -- The Reaching the Goal Study -- Implementing the Common Core State Standards to Improve College and Career Readiness -- Who Owns the Responsibility to Teach the Common Core State Standards? -- Understanding Key Areas Related to College and Career Readiness -- Analyzing Verbs, Not Just Nouns -- Informational Texts versus Fiction and Literature: False Dichotomy? -- Increasing the Quantity of Writing -- Research Skills -- Speaking and Listening -- Integrating Mathematics into Science, Social Studies, and Technical Subjects -- A Key Role for Elementary School Teachers -- The Challenge of the Common Core and College and Career Ready -- Chapter 9: The Consortia Assessments and College and Career Readiness -- The Goals of the Consortia Assessments -- Characteristics of Each Consortium's Assessment -- Computer Based versus Computer Adaptive -- Grade or Course Level versus Learning Progressions -- Performance Tasks: Why Include Them? -- Score Reporting -- Additional Elements -- Setting College and Career Readiness Levels.

Preparing for the Consortia Assessments -- The Challenge Remaining -- Chapter 10: From an Assessment System to a System of Assessments -- Performance Tasks: Key Element in a System of Assessments -- Range of Performance Task Types -- How a System of Assessments Addresses a Wider Range of Standards -- Moving toward Student Profiles -- Benefits of a Profile Approach -- What Might Comprise a Profile -- Chapter 11: Where To from Here? -- What Will "Ready" Mean? -- Increased Use of Data -- Competency Models -- A Blurring of the Line between High School and College -- The Future of the Common Core State Standards and Consortia Assessments -- Who Will Support Implementation? -- The Wild Cards Affecting Implementation -- Consortia Assessment Implementation and Other National Exams -- Owning and Improving the Common Core -- Reviewing and Revising the Common Core -- The Overall Outlook -- Conclusion: Changing Demographics, New Instructional Challenges -- Appendix: A Nine-Part Readiness System -- Calibrate -- ThinkReady -- CampusReady -- I'mReady -- Create -- CourseCreate -- CourseAlign -- CoursePathway -- Connect -- ReadinessConnect -- ReadinessBridge -- ReadinessPartner -- CCRS ThinkReady -- Plugged In: Analyzing Teen Media Use -- Overview -- Instructions for the Teacher -- The Task -- Index.