Elementary & secondary education act Update

1. Elementary & secondary education act Update

2. Welcome to CEC’s 1st Summer Policy session! Deb Ziegler, Associate Executive Director, Policy & Advocacy Kim Hymes, Senior Director, Policy & Advocacy

3. Today’s Agenda • ESEA Reauthorization &Waivers • Update on Legislative & Policy Proposals • Next Generation of Assessments • Teacher Evaluation

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5. 7 Senators are past educators 44 Representatives are past educators

6. 2007…2008…2009…2010…2011…2012…2013? What a difference 7 years makes!!

7. CEC’s ESEA Guiding Principles • Supporting a Well Prepared Successful Educational • Workforce • Improving Outcomes for All Children Through the • Collaboration of All Educators • Strengthening Assessment and Accountability for ALL • Meaningful Systems that Encourage • Collaborative and Supportive Measurement, Evaluation, • and Reward of Professional Performance • Developing Improved Strategies that Create Positive • School Reform • Meeting the Unique Needs of Gifted Learners • Providing Full Funding to Execute the Goals and • Provisions of ESEA

8. Lots of Talking… Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA)

9. American Association of Administrators, Policy Insider Oct 2011

10. White House Announces Waivers September, 2011

11. ESEA Waivers • Remove 2014 AYP deadline • Funding Flexibility • Changes to Accountability • Flexibility for HQT Plans

12. ESEA Waivers • 4 Conditions: • Adopt College & Career Ready Standards • Develop Assessments that Measure Student Growth • Develop Differentiated Accountability System • Develop Guidelines for Local Teacher and Principal Evaluations Based on Effectiveness

13. ESEA Waivers 39 States + Washington, DC have waivers

15. 2013 House vs. Senate ESEA Bills Total Opposites!!

16. Where are we in the legislative process?? Passage by House Education Committee Passage by Senate Education Committee

17. Student Success Act (HR 5) House Version of ESEA CEC Opposed, as did most of the education & disability communities • July 19, 2013: Passed House by 221-207 vote; all Democrats and 12 Republicans voted against • Two days of debate • 18 amendments passed • 4 amendments defeated • 4 withdrawn

18. Student Success Act (HR 5) House Version of ESEA

19. Student Success Act (HR 5) House Version of ESEA

20. Strengthening America’s Schools Act Senate Version of ESEA CEC supported with some reservations, as did most of disability community; education community split Passed Senate Health, Education, Labor, Pensions (HELP) Committee June 12, 2013 Passed with only Democrat support Two days of debate and amendments

21. Strengthening America’s Schools Act Senate Version of ESEA

22. Strengthening America’s Schools Act Senate Version of ESEA

23. What’s Next for ESEA?

24. Common core state standards & The Future of Testing New Assessments, Adaptive Assessments, & Racing to the Top

25. Race to the Top Assessment Contest Aligns to the Common Core State Standards

26. Two Consortia: 1% • Dynamic Learning Maps Alternate Assessment Program (DLM) – Kansas University $22 million • 13 States - Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin. • Accessibility - keyboard, drag-and-drop, touch-screen, and compatible with a variety of assistive technologies commonly used by students.

27. National Center & State Collaborative 19 States: Alaska, Arizona Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nevada, New York, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Wyoming

28. Assessment Consortia: PARCC Computer Based

29. Assessment Consortia: Smarter Balanced Computer Adaptive

30. TIMELINE • 2012-13 School Year: First year pilot/field testing and related research and data collection • Fall 2012 – Small Scale Trials – 500 schools in 23 states • February • April • 2013-14 School Year: Second year pilot/field testing and related research and data collection • 2014-15 School Year: Full operational administration of PARCC assessments • Summer 2015: Set achievement levels, including college-ready performance levels

31. Teacher evaluation Waiver concerns and beyond…

32. Policymakers: A Shift in Focus Highly Qualified Highly Effective Outputs Inputs

33. System Components Complex Role Measure Evidence-Based Practice Recognize Professionalism Incorporate Research CEC’s Position: Components of Special Education Teacher Evaluations

34. Teacher Evaluation Systems Shall: Include Fundamental System-Wide Components • All educators must be included in one evaluation system. • Evaluation systems must identify appropriate professional development opportunities for teachers based on the results of their evaluations. • Evaluations must support continuous improvement. • Evaluation processes and all measures of teacher effectiveness must be open and transparent to the teacher being evaluated. 37

35. Teacher Evaluation Systems Shall: • Evaluations must clearly identify and be based on a special education teacher’s specific role and responsibilities during a given school year. • Evaluations must take into account the population of children and youth and their range of exceptionalities that special education teachers instruct. • Evaluations must be conducted by evaluators with expertise related to evidence-based service delivery models and individualized teaching practices and interventions in special education. Identify the Complex Role of the Special Education Teacher 38

36. Teacher Evaluation Systems Shall: Measure the Use of Evidence-Based Practices • Evaluations must be based on multiple reliable measures and indicators that support valid measurement of special education teacher effectiveness. • Evaluations should never be based solely on student growth. • Statistical models that estimate a teacher’s contribution to student growth, such as value-added models, should not be applied to any teacher until there is a general consensus among researchers that the model provides a valid estimate of a teacher’s contribution to student growth. 39

37. CEC Resources http://www.cec.sped.org/Policy-and-Advocacy

38. CEC Resources @CECAdvocacy www.policyinsider.org

39. Take Action: CEC’s Legislative Action Center www.cec.sped.org Choose: Policy & Advocacy Choose: Legislative Action Center

40. Mark Your Calendars! CEC CAN Summer Policy Series Continues… July 24, 2013, 10-11am (est): Advocacy strategies for new CAN Coordinators August: 1, 2013, 10-11am (est): Federal funding for special/gifted education programs

41. Thank you!! Deb Ziegler Kim Hymes Associate Executive Director Senior Director Policy & Advocacy Policy & Advocacy debz@cec.sped.org kimh@cec.sped.org