Ensuring Quality through Calibration of IVS Course and CCSS

1. Ensuring Quality through Calibration of IVS Course and CCSS Cindy Hamblin – chamblin@ilvirtual.org Jan Leonard – jleonard@peoriaroe48.net

2. Illinois Virtual School (IVS) is a supplement online program • Expand local learning opportunities • IVS 5-12 • Online Courses are Offered in Partnership with the Local School. • IVS-PD • Delivering Online Professional Development Opportunities to Illinois Educators. ISBE's Virtual School Program for Illinois

3. Partnerships are Established with Public and • Private Schools • Online,instructor-facilitatedcourses • 100+ courses including AP, electives and Middle School • Experienced, IL Certified, Highly Qualified Instructors • Flexible Enrollment Dates • Fourteen, 17-week terms in a calendar year • IVS provides Completion Certificate IVS (5-12) Program

4. IVS Initiatives • Quality Curriculum Project • Phase I Spring 2010 • Online Training Course for IVS Teachers • Review Learning Standards • Identify Learning Target • Aligned assessment to learning Target • Examined the current level of reasoning skills • Phase II Fall 2010– Summer 2011 • Course Reflections - Updated Course Maps for all Courses Focus on Course Quality

5. Focus on Course Quality

7. Calibration of IVS Course and Common Core State Standards (CCSS) • Illinois implementation timeline for CCSS • Math and ELA curriculum alignment ready for Fall 2012 (FY13) implementation. • IVS launched a new initiative to take an in-depth review of ELA and Math courses. • Timeline was established to ensure recommended revisions were ready for Fall 2012. • Need CCSS expertise from the field - Jan Leonard CCSS Readiness

8. Our Calibration Process • Establish the goal – determine needs for updating/enhancing courses • Determine the lenses – components within each module of the course would be reviewed • Create the tool • Recruit a review team • Schedule the reviews • Implement the reviews • Aggregate the results and determine next steps CCSS Readiness

9. Our Process • Determine the lenses • Course structure • Overview • Targets • Collaboration opportunities • Supplemental resources • Formative Assessments • Summative Assessments CCSS Readiness

10. Our Process • Determine the lenses • Course Relevance • Levels Rigor • Common Core Standards Alignment CCSS Readiness

11. Our Process • Create the tool • Identifying the criteria • Descriptors – yes/no, tally marks, rating of green, yellow or red. • Comments CCSS Readiness

12. An Example – Course Structure Lens Part One: Module Introduction CCSS Readiness

13. An Example – Levels of Rigor Lens CCSS Readiness

14. Common Core Standards Lens – Reading for Literature Key Ideas and Details Cite strong and textual evidence to support of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from text. Determine the theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text. Analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters and advance the plot or develop the theme. CCSS Readiness

15. Common Core Standards Lens – Reading for Literature • Craft and Structure • Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in • the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone. • Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text , order events within it, and manipulate time. Create such effects as mystery, tension and surprise. • Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the U.S., drawing on a wide range of world literature.** CCSS Readiness

16. Common Core Standards Lens – Reading for Literature • Integration of Knowledge and Ideas • Analyze the representation of a subject or key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment.** • (Not applicable to literature) • Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in a specific work. • ** Standards considered as having the “aha” factor for the review team. CCSS Readiness

17. Common Core Standards Lens – Reading for Literature • Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity • 10. Read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas and poems in the grade 9-10 grade text complexity band proficiently with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. CCSS Readiness

18. An Example – Common Core Standards Alignment Lens, Reading CCSS Readiness

19. Our Process – Recruit the Review Team • Four teams of two • Each team – one content expert, one IVS staff member • Prerequisite knowledge • Common Core Standards • Common Core ELA Appendices • Conceptual understanding of learning targets CCSS Readiness

20. Our Process – Schedule and Implement the Reviews • Four full days together – face to face and through Blackboard Collaborate (Elluminate) • First day introduction and group review of a module in one of the courses • Group interaction when needed • End of day debriefing CCSS Readiness

21. Our Process – Aggregate the Results and Determine Next Steps • IVS Curriculum Coordinator created an aggregate of the results of the review • Dissemination to IVS administrative staff • Determine next steps – update current courses in house/and or purchase content. CCSS Readiness

22. Q & A