Proficiency Delivery Plan Strategies

1. Proficiency Delivery PlanStrategies • Curriculum, Assessment & Alignment • Continuous Instructional Improvement System ( CIITS) • New Accountability Model • KY System of Interventions/Response to Intervention (KSI/RTI) • Collection & Use of Data for Program Improvement – Program Review • Literacy Initiative • Math Initiative • School Readiness and Early Progress

2. Strategy 1: Curriculum, Assessment & Alignment • Creation of systematic statewide professional development structure: Leadership Networks • Standards based reporting • Partnership with SREB

3. Strategy 2: CIITS • Academic Standards • Instructional materials • Teacher/student-level data and assessment items • Tools and functionality to connect instructional information to PD, teacher & leader effectiveness work, and school/district improvement plans

4. Strategy 3: New Accountability Model Balanced Approach Organized around KBE’s 4 strategic priorities Kentucky’s new accountability model mms://video1.education.ky.gov/Accountability_4-12-2012

5. Strategy 4: KSI/RTI SY 2010-11 • Developed Guidance SY 10-11 (KSI). • Provided ongoing technical assistance/training (KSI). • Identified model KSI sites to include in Promising Practices Toolkit. SY 2011-12 • Disseminate Kentucky System of Intervention (KSI) Guidance. • Developed training materials aligned to KSI Guidance, including face-to-face materials, as well as webinar (recorded) materials. • Provided ongoing technical assistance/training (KSI). • Identified model KSI sites to include in Promising Practices Toolkit. • Present KSI training at statewide conferences as opportunity and access allows.

6. Strategy 5: Collection & Use of Data for School Improvement Program Reviews SY 2010-11 • Identify pilot districts. • Provide technical assistance to LEAs over the course of implementation. SY 2011-12 • Monitor LEAs’ implementation of Program Review. • Review LEAs (every school/every two years). • Develop K-3 Program Review. • Continue training/technical assistance. SY 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15 • Review LEAs (every school/every two years). • Continue training/technical assistance. • Identify model sites to include in Promising Practices Toolkit.

7. Strategy 6: Literacy Initiative Professional Development • Implement the Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) framework through the Teacher Leadership Networks • Provide a monthly webinar series focused on standards implementation • Promote KET modules on Effective Writing Instruction for K-8 teachers • Support Professional Learning Communities of Practice (online) for teachers of English language learners (ELLs). • Provide Effective Writing Instruction support • Support Literacy in the Content Areas workgroup to develop model units, lessons and resources, aligned to the standards, for sharing in CIITS. • Repurpose the Literacy in the Content Areas webinars • Work with the EPSB and institutions of higher education in revising teacher preparation programs, targeting literacy instruction and content/discipline specific literacy • Utilize the Model Curriculum Framework to provide technical assistance/professional development to districts

8. Strategy 7: Math Initiative Professional Development • KDE Math Content Specialists and Network Facilitators receive training and planning for 2010-11 network meetings. • Leadership Networks monthly meetings including teacher/school/district level leaders to include Standards, CASL, Leadership Capacity, Designing Summative and Formative assessments, etc. • Populate CIITS with instructional lessons, units, assessments and resources. • Math Teacher Leaders identified as teacher point of contact in each K-8 school to help in disseminating information to colleagues related to the work of the networks • Primary Program Review • Content Network Training will use Math Formative Assessment Lessons (FALs) and the formative assessment process • Plan and design professional development for Aspects of Number through Operations and Algebraic Thinking for elementary and Ratio and Proportion, Expressions and Equations, and Number Systems for middle school with KDE Frankfort-based staff, regional content specialists and Kentucky Center for Mathematics. • RFA for new Math and Science Partnership grants to focus on KDE Math Initiative. • Special Education Math Consultants – Develop modules for addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, and fractions. Begin face-to-face training with special education teachers one day a month for six hours. Training will cover all modules and take place during the 2011-12 school year. Trainings will continue beyond 2012. • KDE/KCM – Training for Math Initiative begins

9. Strategy 8: School Readiness & Early Childhood • Readiness Screener • Primary Diagnostic • K-3 Program Review

10. College & Career Readiness Delivery Plan Target Goals • There are two main target goals: • 1) increase the percentage of students who are college- and career-ready from 34 percent (16,320 students) to 67 percent (32,160 students) by 2015 • 2) increase the Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate from 76 percent (36,480 students) to 90 percent (43,200 students) by 2015

11. CCR Strategies • Collection & Use of Data • Course & Assessment Alignment • New Accountability Model • Targeted Interventions • Career Readiness Pathways • Acceleration – AdvanceKentucky & Project Lead the Way • Academic and Career Advising • District 180 • Pathway to Student Success

12. Gap Delivery Plan GOAL: • Increase achievement for all students in Kentucky so that the achievement gap decreases for all subgroups (African-American, Hispanic, Native American, With Disability, Free/Reduced Price Meals, Limited English Proficiency) from ___% in 2012 to ___% in 2017 as measured by school report cards. • (A baseline will be established utilizing the Kentucky state assessment results in 2012.)

13. Gap Delivery Plan Strategies • Consolidated Planning and Use of Data • Communication • Flexibility of Funding • Alternative Individual Learning Plans • Digital Learning • Educational Recovery

14. Gap Delivery Plan Strategies • Professional Development for Educational Recovery Staff • Regional Professional Development • Co-Teaching in a Diverse Classroom • Progress Monitoring • Intentional Use of Proficiency Strategies for Subgroups

15. General Functions of Special Education Cooperatives Provide training, technical assistance and support based on KDEs delivery plans by: • Compiling and analyzing regional and district data to identify where TA support is most needed to improve outcomes for students with disabilities; • Applying implementation science principles to plan, implement and sustain professional development practices that includes training and follow-up technical assistance and support; • Assisting districts in learning and applying evidence-based practice ; • Assisting member districts to meet the State and federal regulatory requirements for special education programs; • Cooperating and collaborating with other groups and agencies to facilitate improved outcomes for students with disabilities and their families; • Serving as liaison and disseminating information to Local Education Agencies from KDE and other agencies; • Building local member district capacity to achieve KDE outcomes; and • Participating in ongoing professional development to build Cooperative staff capacity to facilitate improved outcomes for students with disabilities and their families