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District Assessment Coordinators and WaKIDS Webinar—October 14, 2013

District Assessment Coordinators and WaKIDS Webinar—October 14, 2013. Webinar Topics. Background/Context for WaKIDS DAC Roles in Supporting Teaching Strategies GOLD ® Assessment and Data Reporting Accessing Teaching Strategies GOLD ® Reports DAC to DAC: Lessons Learned.

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District Assessment Coordinators and WaKIDS Webinar—October 14, 2013

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  1. District Assessment Coordinators and WaKIDS Webinar—October 14, 2013

  2. Webinar Topics • Background/Context for WaKIDS • DAC Roles in Supporting Teaching Strategies GOLD® Assessment and Data Reporting • Accessing Teaching Strategies GOLD®Reports • DAC to DAC: Lessons Learned

  3. WaKIDS: A Kindergarten Entry Transition Process Cross-Sector Partnership First state K assessment and only one to be observational, strengths-based and whole child-focused Formally recognizes: Parents as partners Collaboration of early learning and K—12 Process and product

  4. WaKIDS Assessment Uses Teaching Strategies GOLD® Conducted by trained teachers Occurs over a period of 2 months; completed by October 31 Measures strengths in 6 areas of development and learning Observation-based; ongoing; embedded in classroom activities

  5. GOLD® Differs from Other State Assessments

  6. DAC Roles in Supporting Teaching Strategies GOLD®Assessment and Data Reporting • Summer/Early Fall: Learn how the GOLD online system works to provide administrative technical assistance • Late August/Early September: Assist with the process of uploading class lists/student rosters to GOLD. • Upload electronically to GOLD system, using a template • Add students one student at a time, should class lists change after upload • Make sure each student has an SSID (new 2013 bulk SSID upload system allows students to be assigned SSIDs prior to full CEDARS submission) • September/October: Assist with implementation of GOLD. • Work with principals to manage the placement of students (transferring across classes or schools within district; adding students) • Never delete a student from the system! Instead, archive students who have left the district. When in doubt, call WaKIDS office! 360-725-6161

  7. DAC Roles in Supporting Teaching Strategies GOLD®Assessment and Data Reporting • Fall: Become familiar with the data reports available through the Teaching Strategies GOLD system. • Before October 31, help principals access the Assessment Status Report to review teachers’ progress toward entering final data(aka “finalizingcheckpoint data”) • After October 31, help principals analyze the data. Teaching Strategies GOLD reports can be accessed as soon as the data has been finalized. • Help principals access the Snapshot Report and show them the Individual Child Report, Class Profile and Development and Learning Reports that teachers can generate. • Winter/Spring: Analyze district data available from OSPI in January 2013 through WAMS and State Report Card

  8. Teaching Strategies GOLD® How do teachers finalize their checkpoint data? Transferring and Archiving Students Generating and Analyzing the Assessment Status Report Shelley Fisher, Implementation Manager Teaching Strategies, LLC

  9. DAC to DAC: Lessons Learned And Other Important Stuff Pat Cummings Tracye Ferguson Christina Dabney Tacoma School District

  10. DAC to DAC: Lessons Learned 1 Use the Excel Template provided and import the student roster to Teaching Strategies GOLD Make sure you include SSIDs Teachers need the student rosters loaded before they can record WaKIDS data

  11. DAC to DAC: Lessons Learned 2 At a certain point the teachers should be responsible for adding and editing students (don’t delete a student) We send them directions and ask them to get help from fellow teachers Student transfers from class to class or school to school (within district) are done at the district level

  12. DAC to DAC: Lessons Learned 3 Audit your teacher and student class lists Last year’s WaKIDS records should be “archived” (Teaching Strategies takes care of this in the summer prior to the next school year).

  13. DAC to DAC: Lessons Learned 4 Check the progress of your teachers…Using Assessment Status Report (under “Checkpoint” tab on Teaching Strategies site) Notify principals and teachers on a weekly basis (or more) regarding progress

  14. DAC to DAC: Lessons Learned 5 Once the teachers have completed collecting data through Teaching Strategies GOLD you can look at your results with the Snapshot Report

  15. WaKIDS Areas and Objectives

  16. PDF Snapshot Report

  17. PDF Snapshot Report

  18. Questions? WaKIDS Resources Teaching Strategies GOLD technical support: Call 1-866-736-5913 Hours: Monday through Thursday 5:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time E-mail: wakids@teachingstrategies.com with a description of your concern and your username OSPI and ESD support, contact: Susan Swanberg (360-725-6161 or susan.swanberg@k12.wa.us) for questions regarding usernames, transferring users, accessing GOLD, resetting passwords Gretchen Stahr Breunig (360-725-6180 or gretchen.breunig@k12.wa.us) for questions regarding training, teacher or principal support, ESD contact information Your regional ESD WaKIDS Coordinator for technical classroom and curriculum assistance and regional support; see list at: http://www.k12.wa.us/WaKIDS/Contacts.aspx Kathe Taylor (360-725-6153 or kathe.taylor@k12.wa.us) for questions about overall implementation and data questions WaKIDS website: http://www.k12.wa.us/wakids

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