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Accountability and Curriculum Revision Effort (ACRE)

Accountability and Curriculum Revision Effort (ACRE). External Stakeholders Meeting August 13, 2008. Contextual-Timeline. WHY? (pages 2 & 3 of Deck). 21 st century skill development ….. is a MUST for NC classrooms!.

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Accountability and Curriculum Revision Effort (ACRE)

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  1. Accountability and Curriculum Revision Effort(ACRE) External Stakeholders Meeting August 13, 2008

  2. Contextual-Timeline

  3. WHY? (pages 2 & 3 of Deck) 21st century skill development ….. is a MUST for NC classrooms! Current Course of Study and Accountability Model will not get us there.

  4. WHERE AND HOW? Framing the Framework for Change What we have. • Years of previous thought and experience and a good model • Professional Development and Research • Writing Group • Essential Standards • Comprehensive Assessment +

  5. WHERE AND HOW? Framing the Framework for Change What we are starting up. What we have. • Years of previous thought and experience and a good model • Professional Development and Research • Writing Group • Essential Standards • Comprehensive Assessment • Research and Design of a New Accountability Model • Enabling Technology • 11 tasks including integrated math assessment and release test items +

  6. WHERE AND HOW? Framing the Framework for Change THE PLAN By October 2008 which charts a path to Essential Standards and Excellent Assessments What we are starting up. What we have. • Years of previous thought and experience and a good model • Professional Development and Research • Writing Group • Essential Standards • Comprehensive Assessment • Research and Design of a New Accountability Model • Enabling Technology • 11 tasks including integrated math assessment and release test items +

  7. Technology Needed Essential Standards New SCOS! K-12 Writing CANG- New Assessments! New Accountability Model Project Support Team Project Support Leadership Steering Group Overall View of the Project Structure (Page 7 of Deck) A. B. Technical Improvements & Adjustments New & Improved Tests

  8. Overview of Proposed Pilot for 2008-09 School Year • Piloted at Grades 4 & 7 • Two content specific writing tasks/assignments (formative) • Two on-demand writing tasks/assignments (one benchmark, one summative) • Grade 4 — Paper-pencil based system • Grade 7 — Centrally housed, electronic statewide system

  9. Features of the Electronic System • 2008-09 Pilot in 10 LEAs • Students • Use to compose and store writing task/assignments • Teachers • Use to provide feedback to students and score writing tasks/assignments • Use to inform parents • DPI • Use for the collection of score data • Use to monitor compliance and to audit • Use for quality control (IRR)

  10. Importance of Professional Development • Delivered electronically through the use of Moodle • Two Courses - • Course One: Use of the electronic system - topics include: • Operating the Computer Program for Writing Assessment • Assessment Scoring Rubrics • Content and Writing Features (Quality Control) • Course Two: Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) - topics include: • Importance of Writing Across the Curriculum • Providing Effective Feedback to Students • Formative Assessment and Its Role within Classroom Instruction • Rubrics– “The Roles They Play”

  11. Technology Focushttp://www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=NETS

  12. Students will be: developing innovative work products; communicating information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of digital environments; locating, organizing, analyzing, evaluating and synthesizing information; and selecting and using applications effectively and productively (transfer of knowledge). Teachers will be: promoting student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify student’s conceptual knowledge; developing technology-enriched learning environments that will enable all students to become active participants in their own learning and progress; and providing students with multiple and varied formative and summative assessments. 21st Century Competencies Encouraged

  13. Opportunity • Change North Carolina’s mechanism for curriculum delivery and assessment. (We have been talking about it …studying it….planning it….now we get the chance to DO it!) • North Carolina will be setting the tone for educational change of the nation. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”Thomas Alva Edison

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