FTF: Creating Common Core Minions

“Create” (Consortium for Research on Educational Assessment and Teacher Effectiveness). Common Core is all over this Consortium. Here are their own words about their vision, “The vision of the Consortium for Research on Educational Assessment and Teaching Effectiveness (CREATE) is improved student learning, development, and achievement in PK-12 schools, institutes of higher education, and other educational settings.”

Heading up CREATE is a lady from the College of William and Mary. Sounds innocent, but looking into W & M, Common Core Standards are supported by them. How? Through their Gifted Education program. See the screen shot below:

While I was looking into William and Mary, I found that other educational interests of school entwine the global movement. See this screen shot below. One of the professors there had this document in his resume. If you’d like the document I found this in: 

http://www.trincoll.edu/UrbanGlobal/CUGS/students/Documents/Chen%20article%20in%20IIE%20Networker%20Spring%202014.pdf

Other Ties to CC Which CREATE Has:

1) Western KY University, where another board member is from has huge CCSS ties! They had a writing project which helped create the Standards. see: http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/3669

Here’s an excerpt from 2011: “The NWP’s Common Core Initiative will help develop and test lesson plans to meet the literacy goal of the new common core standards Kentucky adopted last year.”

2) Rutgers University is also represented on the board of CREATE. Their CC tie is training librarians to align with the Standards. See: http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/library-and-information-science-features/rutgers-takes-the-lead-on-training-future-librarians-for-the-common-core.html

3) SREB (Southern Regional Education Board) is also represented on the Board for CREATE. If you haven’t already seen my articles about how much into CC the SREB is, see: from 10/14: https://www.commoncorediva.com/2014/10/10/fridays-post-breaking-news-you-need-to-know/ then, https://www.commoncorediva.com/2015/01/07/wybi-wednesday-icaps-common-core-and-more/

4) To see the rest of the Board and who’s who OR so you can continue taking a deeper look into how each are connected (if they are) to CC, see: http://www.createconference.org/officers—directors.html

CREATE Can Link You To:

“Leaning Foward”, http://learningforward.org/, read their 2012 award Gates Foundation gave them for CCSS work: http://learningforward.org/publications/blog-landing/press-releases/2012/01/23/learning-forward-receives-$1-million-grant-to-develop-professional-learning-tools-for-common-core-state-standards#.VN__PvnF-hQ

*Note: Be sure to look at their “Innovation Configurations” to see the work LF is doing to reach out to the community to embrace the Standards, private schools, and more.

“AERA” (American Educational Research Association), http://www.aera.net/, you’ll want to see their growing research file on all things CCSS. Visit, http://www.aera.net/Newsroom/TrendingResearchTopics/TrendingTopicResearchFileCommonCoreStateStandards/tabid/15329/Default.aspx

You’ll want to see the AERA video below to see how they were (at the time) so excited about CC/Research.

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“JCSEE”, (Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation) :

Their website: http://www.jcsee.org/, I introduced you to JCSEE a few months ago, but let’s assume you don’t know JCSEE. From their ‘about’ website page, “Created in 1975, the Joint Committee is a coalition of major professional associations concerned with the quality of evaluation. The Joint Committee is housed at the Center for Evaluation and Assessment, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.” It’s a 501(c) 3 public charity. Two of its many sponsors are the NEA (National Educators Association) and the CCSS (Council of Chief State School Officers), both are huge fans of CCSS. Here’s the link to my original article I wrote. Notice between that one and this, the differences in a few months. https://www.commoncorediva.com/2014/12/02/ftf-create-they-know-your-school-do-you-know-them/

Back to CREATE:

Presently, the folks at CREATE are busy readying themselves for the 2015 CREATE Conference. It’s to be held in Charleston, SC sometime in the fall. If you look at the conference from last year (since nothing for this one is viable on the website yet) you can see they love to talk about assessments. From the 2013 Conference there was plenty to be heard on CTE (Career Tech Education), as well. See the Conference  program: CREATE13. (*Note: if you click on the link for 2014’s Conference, you are taken to 2013’s automatically. See the other years and their information: http://www.createconference.org/past-conferences.html )

Related to CREATE:

The National Council of Measurement in Education, http://ncme.org/index.cfm , their upcoming conference is in April 2015. Since all these folks do is assessment related, you’ll want to see their tie to the high stakes assessing CC has going on. Pearson Publishing and College Board both have seats around the Board of Directors. Two of the 3 officers belong to ACT, Inc. and CTB MacGraw-Hill Publishing. My warrior friends, did you catch that? Four positions belong to known and identified CCSS profit makers. When you visit any of the above links, note how they are all somehow related. Note the NCME’s assessment dictionary. You’ll want to see how they define high stakes assessments. They certainly plan to have some jesting about assessments during the upcoming conference in April. Click the screen shot below and enlarge it.

According to the NCME’s Conference website, you’ll be able to get the lowdown on PARCC, SBAC, and more. See the program: 2015_NCME_Preliminary_Program_H You’ll be happy to see one of the keynote speakers is NY’s John King. As an added bonus for today, I was able to find a 2010 NCME newsletter discussing their involvement with the development of PARCC and SBAC high stakes assessments. Get the download: NCME2010. Finally, you might find the 2014 December newsletter eye opening in regards to PARCC and SBAC. Get it: NCME_Newsletter_December_2014 (*Note, be sure to look for SBAC, Act, Inc., AIR, and more)