On your Mark…

1. Assembling the Toolkit of Knowledge, Skills, and Resources for Teachers to Prepare Students for Next Generation Assessments Tammy L. Howard, PhD Director of Accountability Services NC Dept of Public Instruction June 27, 2014

2. On your Mark… 2

3. Educator Effectiveness Before Teaching and Leading Develop effective teachers and leaders in preparation programs Great Teachers and LeadersAn effective teacher in every classroom and leader in every school Student Readiness Achievement and growth for all students During Teaching and Leading Use meaningful evaluation and professional development to increase effectiveness of teachers and leaders 3

4. How did we get here? Accountability and Curriculum Reform Effort (ACRE) 2008 Race to the Top 2010 4

5. Goals of Race to the Top • Every student should be held to high academic expectations, the achievement of which will enable him or her to graduate ready for life in the global economy. • In order for every student to have an opportunity to grow academically and achieve, every student must have an effective teacher and every school must have an effective principal. 5

6. Primary Elements of this Work • New Standard Course of Study • Balanced Assessment System • New Accountability Model 6

7. College and Career Readiness It is important to remember that we have raised expectations significantly in the 2012-13 school year. Claims in the Past: Grade-level Proficiency Claims in the Future: Career- and College-Ready

8. Changing what we think of as “State Assessments” • Constructed Response • Performance Tasks • Computer Adaptive Testing This is what we’ve known + Summative Interim Tools “Along the Way” Formative Processes “Every Day” 8

9. School Accountability Tests • End-of-Grade (EOG) • English Language Arts/Reading Grades 3–8 • Mathematics Grades 3–8 • Science Grades 5 and 8 • End-of-Course (EOC) • English II • Algebra I/Integrated I • Biology • When: • EOCs/EOGs – End of Semester/End of Year • ACT – March • WorkKeys - February • Used For: • School accountability (state and federal) • Public reporting WorkKeys12th ACT 11th 9

10. Get set… 10

11. Transitional Training: 2011-Present 1 2 3 4 11

12. Transitional Training: 2011-Present 1 2 3 4 12

13. Focus of Professional Development Step 1 Dig into the Standards Internalize the Content Standards Step 2 Review New Item Types, Items and Released Forms Step 3 13

14. Go! 14

15. Tool Kit 101 • Communicate frequently and in multiple venues • Acknowledge all communication relies on someone telling someone else • Recognize the complexity of all the moving parts • New Standards • New Assessments • New Achievement Expectations • Educator Effectiveness • Recognize much of the message is ignored until it becomes reality • Rigor in standards results in more rigorous assessments • New standards/assessments typically have a drop in percent proficient 15

16. Reading and Math Performance: 1992-93 to 2011-12 16

17. Tool Kit 101 • Consider altering the path as needed, • NC Final Exams, the teacher growth measure, have been redesigned to better meet the purpose of the tests • Summer Institutes have been re-designed each year to meet the current needs • READY yearly meetings have varied from face-to-face to webinars • But maintain what works • Involving stakeholders such as PTA, NCAE, Superintendents’ Association, Business Community, NC Chamber • Working outside of silos to offer more depth and cross-agency resources 17

18. Every Student READY Questions 18

19. Assembling the Toolkit of Knowledge, Skills, and Resources for Teachers to Prepare Students for Next Generation Assessments Marianne Mottley, Assistant Director, Office of Accountability Ohio Department of Education

20. Ohio’s Race to the Top Proposal “By 2014, 100% of Ohio’s classrooms will implement a more rigorous college- and career-ready curriculum that, together with aligned assessments and teacher supports, will form the foundation of a comprehensive system to empower Ohio’s students to succeed globally in the 21st century.”

21. Key Milestones Ohio CORE Curriculum Adoption of New Learning Standards Development of New Model Curriculum Implementation of Next Generation Assessments

22. Tools and Resources

23. Standards Crosswalk Shows areas of alignment between old and new standards English/Language Arts Mathematics Science Social Studies Available at education.ohio.gov Key Word “Crosswalk”

24. ELA Crosswalk

25. Mathematics Crosswalk

26. Comparative Analysis A grade-level specific tool designed to help teachers understand the overall similarities and changes between the old and new standards. Identifies: • What is the same • What is new • What is no longer present

27. Comparative Analysis

28. Data Driven Decision-Making Data Tools Catalog Ohio Improvement Process (OIP) Decision Framework Report Card Data Interactive Local Report Card Success Website EVAAS Website

29. Instructional Improvement System (IIS) Partnership with Massachusetts Dissemination of new standards Storage/distribution of formative assessment practices Curricular supports Lesson plans

30. Standards Curriculum Instructional Improvement System (IIS) Assessments Assessments Instructional Improvement System Instructional Resources Professional Development

31. Student Growth Data & Achievement Growth Measures student performance at a single point in time How many students passed the test? A more complete picture of student learning Measures growth between two points. Did all students make progress regardless of where they started?

32. Student Growth Data Ohio Law and RttT: Requires use of student growth measures in teacher evaluations EVAAS value-added must be used when available

33. Value Added Leaders (VALs) Trained and supported through Battelle for Kids (BFK) Skilled at using value-added data Purpose to initiate/support continuous educational improvement

34. Value Added Leaders (VAL) Work with members of the district level teams to support coaching principals and teacher leaders in the use of value-added data Be a catalyst and support for change in assigned districts

35. Value Added Leaders (VAL) Collaboration inside the district to lead to change “Focus on My District” Guides Facilitate/Monitor Ohio·Focus

36. Ohio.Focus • A “nested” educational improvement model • Same process at each level • Each level focuses on large scale patterns

37. Matrix of Achievement and Progress (MAAP) • Available on BFK’s Ohio Student Progress Portal • Displays progress versus achievement • Interactive tool with district and building views by subject and grade • Mouse-over and multi-year data also available

38. MAAP Math

39. MAAP All Subjects

40. High Quality Resources Great Teaching Success for All Students

41. education.ohio.gov

42. Social Media Ohio Families and Education Ohio Teachers’ Homeroom ohio-department-of-education storify.com/ohioEdDept @OHEducation OhioEdDept