Galileo/WestEd Local Accountability System

1. Galileo/WestEd Local Accountability System On-Site Staff Development August 30, 2007

2. Objectives of the Presentation Participating teacher will understand… • What the Galileo/WestEd local accountability system is. • How the system is being implemented this school year. • How to plan their classroom instruction effectively in accordance with the Galileo/WestEd system. (Grade-Level Breakout Session)

3. Problem Solving: “The Case of Marketing Apples”

4. Statistics to Remember(the Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning) • 200 standards and 3,093 benchmarks for 14 different subject areas in national and state level documents • The average time to teach these standards and benchmarks is 15,465 hours • The average school year is 180 days, with 5.6 hours a day of instructional time

5. Statistics to Remember(the Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning) • Not all class time is used. The range of actual time of instruction in a classroom is 21%-69%. • If the high of 69% is used to determine the amount of instruction, the total number is 9,042 hours. • 15,465 hours are needed to teach all of the standards, yet, in the best case scenario, a teacher would have 9,042 instructional hours.

6. The Statistics to Remember(the Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning) • In order to address all of the standards, students would have to go to from kindergarten through grade 21! • Other countries have focused their efforts: U.S. science books on the average address 50-65 topics while the Japanese textbooks cover 5-15 topics. • U.S. math books cover 350% more math topics than do Japanese texts and 175 % more topics than German texts.

7. “The Case of Marketing Apples”

8. What is the Galileo/WestEd Local Accountability System? • District-Wide School-Improvement Program Assessment Data driven Content Standard Instruction based Professional Learning Community Centered Technology empowered

9. Content Standard Instruction based The Galileo/WestEd System is… “Essential Standards”…What are they? • Standards that have Endurance • Standards that have Leverage • Standards that ensure Readiness for the Next Level of Learning • Standards that are represented on State Testing

10. Standards that have Endurance • They provide students with knowledge and skills that will be of value beyond a single test. Examples: • Addition and subtraction • Interpreting charts and graphs

11. Standards that have Leverage • They provide students with knowledge and skills that will be of value in multiple disciplines. Examples: • Fluent reading and comprehension skills • Writing coherent report of information

12. Standards that have Readiness for the Next Level of Learning • They provide students with essential knowledge and skills necessary for success in the next grade level of instruction. Examples: • Math Facts • Writing good sentence(s)/paragraph(s)

13. Standards that are represented on State Testing • They appear often (2 questions or more per test) on the STAR Test. Example: Order of operation: 5 questions on 4th CST math every year Word Knowledge (synonyms, antonyms, etc): 8 questions on 4th CST Lang Arts every year

14. Rationale for Selecting Essential Standards… • content instruction in depth • focus on “mastery” instead of “coverage” • equity on educational emphasis • increased teacher collaboration on instructional strategies/materials

15. Things Teachers Need to Know about Essential Standards • About 20-30 essential standards for ELA or Math • Goal: proficient mastery over all essential standards. • Students will be assessed and remediated for all these standards (no more “just moving on”) • Teachers are still responsible to teach the rest of the content standards (especially in view of STAR Testing), but not with the same intensity for mastery.

16. =assessment =intervention =instruction Essential Standards: How are they taught? September November January March May • Benchmark • #4 • STAR Testing Prep • Benchmark #3 • Long division • Fraction • Decimals • Benchmark #2 • Multiplication • Prime Numbers • Geometry • Linear Equation • Benchmark #1 • Place Value • Estimation • Addition • Subtraction • Algebra: Properties Benchmark 1 Benchmark 2 Benchmark 3

17. What do we do with the rest of the content standards? • “Bundle” the conceptually connected standards (ex. Synonyms + How to use thesaurus, Prime Numbers + Factoring) • “Expose and Revisit” the standards (Start reviewing math facts in September and reinforce throughout the year) • Teach the standards during STAR Test prep weeks (After Benchmark 3 testing)

18. Problem Solving: The Tale of Two Travelers

19. Assessment Data Driven The Galileo/WestEd System is… “Benchmark Tests” …What are they? • Assessments designed to measure students’ understanding on the essential standards • Multiple-choice format with bubbling-in answer sheet • Given 3 or 4 times a year at the end of each Benchmark period

20. Assessment Data Analysis • “NOT” the teacher’s report card! • “Tool” to improve future instruction • Encourages teacher collaboration

21. “What Makes A Good Test?”(Teacher as a researcher and data analyst) • Validity the degree to which the test measures the target standards “Does the test measure what it supposed to measure?”

22. “What Makes A Good Test?”(Teacher as a researcher and data analyst) • Reliability The error of measurement in terms of random fluctuation in student’s score; or consistency for one teacher across all students or over time on performance task, or across raters on a particular performance assessment

23. “What Makes A Good Test?”(Teacher as a researcher and data analyst) • Accuracy the bias of measurement in terms of a tendency to over- or under- represent a student’s true achievement level

24. “What Makes A Good Test?”(Teacher as a researcher and data analyst) • Meaningfulness the degree to which teachers and students perceive the test as important; teachers do their best to prepare students for the test and administer it, and students do their best to complete the test.

25. “Assessments We Still Have” (reportable to the district) • ELA Reading Fluency/Accuracy • Math Formative Assessment (Beginning of Year) Summative Assessment (End of Year) *Ask your resource teachers about more grade level specific assessment(s)

26. “Other Assessments We Can Use”(Not reportable to the district) • ELA Open Court Unit Tests, Comprehension Checkpoints, Reading Comprehension Tests, Writing Assessments in the ELA Binder • Math Chapter Tests (must be revised), Math Facts *Ask your resource teachers about more grade level specific assessment(s)

27. Technology Empowered The Galileo/WestEd System is… “Galileo Technology” …What is it? • AllBenchmark Tests are scanned electronically at the school site • Teachers can easily create their own formative tests online. • Test results (both Benchmark and formative) and their analyses will be electronically delivered in a short period of time • It makes “immediate” teacher intervention possible

28. Discussion Question “Have you ever hesitated to share your teaching ideas and/or materials with other teachers? Why? Why not?”

29. Professional Learning Community Centered The Galileo/WestEd System is… “Professional Learning Community (PLC)”…What is it? Activity: Create A Skit • Each grade level will create a situational skit that demonstrates the kind of relationship we have in our school. • Parallel Play • Adversarial Relationship • Congenial Relationship • Collegial Relationship

30. Professional Learning Community Centered The Galileo/WestEd System is… “Professional Learning Community (PLC)”…What is it? Professional Learning Community (PLC) is a team of educators systematically working together to improve teaching practice and student learning.

32. “In 1991, Michael Jordan won his first NBA championship with the Bulls, and followed that with titles in 1992 and 1993…he rejoined the Bulls in 1995 and led them to three additional championships (1996, 1997, and 1998). His 1995–96 Bulls team won an NBA-record 72 regular-season games.” (source: Wikipedia)

33. Essential Questions for Consideration by PLCs (Appendix D) • 1. Standards for our Instruction “What do we want our students to know and be able to do?” “What skills or knowledge do we want our students to have?”

34. Essential Questions for Consideration by PLCs (Appendix D) • 2. Instruction/ Modeling (what we show them) “What will it look like when we get there?” “What does mastery look like?” “How can we show students an example?”

35. Essential Questions for Consideration by PLCs (Appendix D) • 3. Assessment (what students show us) “How will we know that students got there?”

36. Essential Questions for Consideration by PLCs (Appendix D) • 4. Lesson Planning “What will we do to get them there?”

37. Professional Learning Community

38. Professional Learning Community Centered The Galileo/WestEd System is… “Professional Learning Community (PLC)”…What is it? • It establishes a common, concise set of essential curricular standards. • It meets regularly to help one another teach to the selected standards. • It makes frequent use of common assessments. • It makes collaborative analysis of the results of instructional practices (Schmoker, 2006)

39. Implementation of PLC This Year • Grade level meetings (at lease 2 times per month) for collaboration regarding WestEd Model. • Optional After-school Meetings • Professional Development Opportunities

40. CURRICULUM BEFORE NOW 1. Students should show proficient mastery of all content standards without distinction. 1. The first priority for students is to show mastery of essential standards.

41. CURRICULUM BEFORE NOW 1. Students should show proficient mastery of all content standards without distinction. 1. The first priority for students is to show mastery of essential standards. 2. Our instruction is content- standards driven. Textbooks are just “tools” to hit the standards. 2. Our instruction is textbook driven.

42. CURRICULUM BEFORE NOW 1. Students should show proficient mastery of all content standards without distinction. 1. The first priority for students is to show mastery of essential standards. 2. Our instruction is content- standards driven. Textbooks are just “tools” to hit the standards. 2. Our instruction is textbook driven. 3. Slower pacing. More flexibility and time for deeper learning. 3. Fast pacing. Little room for intervention.

43. ASSESSMENT BEFORE NOW 1. No feedback on district assessments 1. Immediate feedback through Galileo Technology

44. ASSESSMENT BEFORE NOW 1. No feedback on district assessments 1. Immediate feedback through Galileo Technology 2. Assessment data analysis and intervention done by individual or a group of teachers 2. Assessment data analysis and intervention done by grade-level

45. ASSESSMENT BEFORE NOW 1. No feedback on district assessments 1. Immediate feedback through Galileo Technology 2. Assessment data analysis and intervention done by individual or a group of teachers 2. Assessment data analysis and intervention done by grade-level 3. District/site specified path(s) for intervention/ remediation (ex. after school class, math facts, etc.) 3. Flexibility among grade levels to choose how to remediate (whole class, flex groups, pull out, etc.)

46. ASSESSMENT BEFORE NOW 1. (Math) Baseline, Mid-Year, End-of-Year Tests 1. (Math) Baseline, Benchmark Tests 1, 2, 3, and/or 4

47. ASSESSMENT BEFORE NOW 1. (Math) Baseline, Mid-Year, End-of-Year Tests 1. (Math) Baseline, Benchmark Tests 1, 2, 3, and/or 4 2. (Math) Chapter Tests 2. (Math) Revised Chapter Tests?

48. ASSESSMENT BEFORE NOW 1. (Math) Baseline, Mid-Year, End-of-Year Tests 1. (Math) Baseline, Benchmark Tests 1, 2, 3, and/or 4 2. (Math) Chapter Tests 2. (Math) Revised Chapter Test (Not Reportable) 3. (ELA) Reading Fluency/Accuracy 3. (ELA) Reading Fluency/Accuracy

49. ASSESSMENT BEFORE NOW 1. (Math) Baseline, Mid-Year, End-of-Year Tests 1. (Math) Baseline, Benchmark Tests 1, 2, 3, and/or 4 2. (Math) Chapter Tests 2. (Math) Revised Chapter Tests? 3. (ELA) Reading Fluency/Accuracy 3. (ELA) Reading Fluency/Accuracy 4. (ELA) Benchmark Tests 1,2,3, and/or 4

50. TECHNOLOGY BEFORE NOW 1. Benchmark Tests delivered online by Galileo