Accountability Tour “Accountability On Ice 2011-2012”

1. Accountability Tour“Accountability On Ice 2011-2012” Tuscola ISD Thursday, January 26, 2012

2. Welcome and introductions • Thank you for attending! • Thank you to Tuscola ISD for hosting us! • About us • Evaluation, Research and Accountability Unit • Office of Psychometrics, Accountability, Research and Evaluation (OPARE) • Bios and contact information on your tables • Why are we here? • To communicate what we know • To support you in your work

3. Structure of the Day • Very aggressive agenda • Rankings (30 minutes) • Educator Evaluations (50 minutes) • Beating the Odds (20 minutes) • AYP (50 minutes) • Cut scores (30 minutes) • MSDS Reporting Best Practices (20 minutes) • In order to cover everything, we need to stick to the times allotted • Unanswered questions: use the feedback sheet

4. Structure of the Day • Ask questions during the allotted time for each topic • Stop the presenters as they are speaking (within reason) • Only one scheduled break • Content available online

5. Pieces of the Accountability Puzzle • What remains the same? • Top to Bottom ranking methodology • AYP (for 2011-2012) • What is new? • Top to Bottom methodology to determine Priority and Focus Schools • Cut scores • Educator evaluations: required for all educators • What is under development? • ESEA Flexibility—will impact AYP • Accreditation—still in approval process

6. Challenges in this work • Time of rapid change; new initiatives • Increasing stakes • Balancing the need for complex metrics to capture school performance accurately with the need for transparency • Articulating a vision for your work/our work with the quantity of initiatives

7. How we can help • We will tell you what we know; caveat—that may change! • We will name the places where there is still confusion • We will be an ongoing resource as you navigate this work • Accountability is not only about the “stick”—it’s also about using these metrics to diagnose, to work smarter