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RFQQ 2019-17 Pre-Bid Conference. Facilitated by Aira Jackson, ELA Director at OSPI. Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. Chris Reykdal, State Superintendent. Vision:. Values:. All students prepared for post-secondary pathways, careers, and civic engagement. Mission :.
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RFQQ 2019-17 Pre-Bid Conference Facilitated by Aira Jackson, ELA Director at OSPI Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal, State Superintendent
Vision: Values: All students prepared for post-secondary pathways, careers, and civic engagement. Mission: Transform K–12 education to a system that is centered on closing opportunity gaps and is characterized by high expectations for all students and educators. We achieve this by developing equity-based policies and supports that empower educators, families, and communities. Ensuring Equity Collaboration and Service Achieving Excellence through Continuous Improvement Focus on the Whole Child
Equity Statement: Each student, family, and community possesses strengths and cultural knowledge that benefit their peers, educators, and schools. Ensuring educational equity: Goes beyond equality; it requires education leaders to examine the ways current policies and practices result in disparate outcomes for our students of color, students living in poverty, students receiving special education and English Learner services, students who identify as LGBTQ+, and highly mobile student populations.
Equity Statement: Each student, family, and community possesses strengths and cultural knowledge that benefit their peers, educators, and schools. Ensuring educational equity: Goes beyond equality; it requires education leaders to examine the ways current policies and practices result in disparate outcomes for our students of color, students living in poverty, students receiving special education and English Learner services, students who identify as LGBTQ+, and highly mobile student populations. Requires education leaders to develop an understanding of historical contexts; engage students, families, and community representatives as partners in decision-making; and actively dismantle systemic barriers, replacing them with policies and practices that ensure all students have access to the instruction and support they need to succeed in our schools.
Learning & Teaching English Language Arts and Literacy We believe in commitment over compliance Supporting fair and equitable access to high quality and culturally responsive ELA instruction. We want Washington students to leave the K-12 system, to be critical thinkers, readers, and writers. And to engage with their communities and to be able to follow their dreams.
Fast Facts • 295+ School Districts • Full K Enrollment: 80,541 students • Half Day K Enrollment: 440 students • Grade 1 Enrollment: 83,263 students • Grade 2 Enrollment: 83,479 students
Fast Facts • Students Learning English and Becoming Bilingual: 130,000+ • Students Experiencing Homelessness: 2,753 • Students Living in Poverty: 42% of 1,115,281 • WA State has the 3rd largest population of students, whose families are migrant workers.
Definition of Dyslexia Dyslexia has been defined in statute as a specific learning disorder that is neurological in origin and characterized by: • Unexpected difficulties with accurate or fluent word recognition and • Poor spelling and decoding abilities that are not consistent with the person’s intelligence, motivation, and sensory capabilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the phonological components of language that is often unexpected in relation to other cognitive abilities.
Definition Continued • The resultant difficulties are not typically a result of ineffective classroom instruction. Secondary consequences may include problems in reading comprehension and reduced reading experience that can impede growth of vocabulary and background knowledge.
2018-19 Statute Expectations • Create the Dylsexia Advisory Council • Advise the superintendent on matters relating to dyslexia in an academic setting • Identify, describe & recommend screening tools and resources (June, 2019)
Inherent Understandings • This RFQQ will not result in a contract with OSPI. Instead, OSPI will publish a vetted list of academic screeners/tools for school districts to access. School districts may choose to purchase services from vendors on the list. Districts will contact vendors directly and negotiate contract terms. • This RFQQ does not obligate the State of Washington or OSPI to contract for services specified herein. OSPI also reserves the right to cancel or to reissue the RFQQ in whole or in part, prior to execution of a contract without penalty.
Inherent Understandings Continued • OSPI shall be bound only to written answers to questions. Any oral responses given at the pre-proposal conference shall be considered unofficial. • Questions arising at the pre-bid conference or in subsequent communication with the RFQQ Coordinator will be documented and answered in written form. A copy of the questions and answers in the form of an Addendum to the RFQQ will be sent to each prospective Consultant who received the RFQQ or made the RFQQ Coordinator aware of their interest in this procurement. • Within five (5) business days of the pre-bid conference, a copy of the questions and answers from the pre-bid conference will be placed on the OSPI website and released on WEBS.
Purpose of RFQQ The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) is initiating this Request for Qualifications and Quotations (RFQQ) to solicit proposals from Consultants interested in contracting with Washington School Districts to provide academic screeners/tools (see definition for academic screener) to be administered in grades K-2 (estimated 250,000 students) for the early screening of dyslexia or areas of weakness associated with dyslexia. The screener/tools must attend to the following: phonemic awareness, phonological awareness, letter sound identification, and rapid naming.
Purpose of RFQQ Continued Consultants will include: • High rates of validity and reliability for demographics similar to Washington State students • Bias and Sensitivity evaluations, preferably from third parties • Capacity to support districts of various sizes Correlation to the expectations of the Washington State Education System: • Common Core State English Language Arts Standards • Washington Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills (WaKIDS) in Literacy • Smarter Balanced Assessment Claims and Targets
Purpose of RFQQ Continued Considerations about Academic Screeners: • Children who perform inconsistently on screening assessments should be monitored closely and provided additional services as necessary to support development and prevent the need for special education. • Screening instruments, including those for learning disabilities, have most or all of the following characteristics. Academic Screeners are: • Helpful in determining the need for further testing • Appropriate for large numbers of persons, screeners may have population considerations including age band.
Objective and Scope of Work • Dyslexia Advisory Council (DAC) will review academic screeners who respond to this RFQQ, for the purpose of identifying tools associated with phonemic awareness, phonological awareness, letter sound identification, and rapid naming. • These tools will be used by Washington School Districts in the Fall of 2021 for the early screening of dyslexia or areas of weakness associated with dyslexia. • The DAC will recommend their preferred list of academic screeners to the Superintendent of Public Instruction by June 1, 2019, whom will approve or deny by end of August 2019.
Objective and Scope of Work Continued • OSPI will then publish a vetted list of academic screeners/tools on its website. Under Engrossed Second Substitute Senate Bill 6162, Washington school districts may purchase the vetted list of academic screeners published online in September of 2019 with implementation by districts and schools by September 2021.
Inherent Understandings • This RFQQ will not result in a contract with OSPI. Instead, OSPI will publish a vetted list of academic screeners/tools for school districts to access. School districts may choose to purchase services from vendors on the list. Districts will contact vendors directly and negotiate contract terms. • This RFQQ does not obligate the State of Washington or OSPI to contract for services specified herein. OSPI also reserves the right to cancel or to reissue the RFQQ in whole or in part, prior to execution of a contract without penalty.
Inherent Understandings Continued • OSPI shall be bound only to written answers to questions. Any oral responses given at the pre-proposal conference shall be considered unofficial. • Questions arising at the pre-bid conference or in subsequent communication with the RFQQ Coordinator will be documented and answered in written form. A copy of the questions and answers in the form of an Addendum to the RFQQ will be sent to each prospective Consultant who received the RFQQ or made the RFQQ Coordinator aware of their interest in this procurement. • Within five (5) business days of the pre-bid conference, a copy of the questions and answers from the pre-bid conference will be placed on the OSPI website and released on WEBS.
