{"id":18766,"date":"2013-05-31T12:50:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T16:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=18766"},"modified":"2013-05-31T14:21:50","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T18:21:50","slug":"orange-county-schools-want-to-set-an-example-druing-switch-to-common-core-and-digital-instruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/05\/31\/orange-county-schools-want-to-set-an-example-druing-switch-to-common-core-and-digital-instruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange County Schools Want To Set An Example During Switch To Common Core And Digital Instruction"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Orange County Superintendent Barbara Jenkins and Chairman Bill Sublette focused their State of the Schools speech on changes in curriculum and technology.<\/p><\/div>\n

Orange County schools superintendent Barbara Jenkins says the district should be a leader as they switch to new education standards and add more required digital instruction.<\/p>\n

\u201cOrange County Public Schools intends to be at the forefront of that change,\u201d Jenkins said during her \u201cState of the Schools\u201d address last week with school board Chairman Bill Sublette.<\/p>\n

The two spoke about \u201cschools of the future\u201d and what it will take to make Orange County, one of the nation’s largest school districts, the \u201ctop producer of successful students in the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, it’s out with the old and in with the new.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter 16 years of Sunshine State Standards<\/a> and FCAT,\u201d Jenkins said, \u201cwe are transitioning to Common Core State Standards<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test<\/a>\u00a0 is being phased out. In its place, students will take exams being developed by the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness of College and Careers, or PARCC, <\/a>starting in 2015.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis represents a monumental shift, and we are working hard to prepare our teachers through intensive professional development,\u201d Jenkins said. \u201cCommon Core instruction has already started in grades K-1, and by the end of next year more than 12,000 OCPS teachers will have been trained. In the spring of 2015, the first English and Math Common Core examinations will be given.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jenkins said Orange County is leading the way as the district, like others statewide, continues the move toward digital textbooks.<\/a><\/p>\n

“In only two years, most standardized tests, including Common\u00a0Core tests, must be taken by computer,”\u00a0Jenkins said.\u00a0\u201cWithin three years, OCPS is required to use 50% of its instructional materials funding\u00a0on digital instructional materials.”<\/p>\n

Jenkins\u00a0thinks Orange County can do better than that.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe intend to exceed the 50% benchmark set by the state and have 75% of our curriculum resources spent on digital curriculum by 2016,\u201d Jenkins said.<\/p>\n

The district is instituting a pilot program in seven schools to figure out the best way to go digital. Every student in the pilot schools will have a digital device.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will test different devices, four leading operating systems, and various content providers,\u201d Jenkins said. \u201cMost importantly, we will be measuring the impact of the various platforms on student learning, college and career readiness, and student performance.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Florida Department of Education wants a computer for every child within five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Orange County schools superintendent Barbara Jenkins says the district should be a leader as they switch to new education standards and add more required digital instruction. \u201cOrange County Public Schools intends to be at the forefront of that change,\u201d Jenkins said during her \u201cState of the Schools\u201d address last week with school board Chairman Bill […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1157,680,1019,643,1115],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18833,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18766\/revisions\/18833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}