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Changes to KY Education

Changes to KY Education. What Every Parent Needs to Know Oldham County Schools Fall 2011. What Every Parent Needs to Know about Changes in KY Education. Today… Why are things changing? What is changing? What are the school district and schools doing in response to these changes?

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Changes to KY Education

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  1. Changes to KY Education What Every Parent Needs to Know Oldham County Schools Fall 2011

  2. What Every Parent Needs to Know about Changes in KY Education • Today… • Why are things changing? • What is changing? • What are the school district and schools doing in response to • these changes? • How will these changes impact my child? • Presenters: • Ms. Anita Davis, Asst. Supt. • Dr. Charleen McAuliffe, Deputy Supt.

  3. What Every Parent Needs to Know about Changes in KY Education Why are things changing? • If you were a KY legislator and saw the following, what might you assume or conclude? • ACT data for KY students • 40% met college ready expectations for reading • 16% met college readiness for science • Less than 21% met readiness for college-level algebra • The number of students needing non-credit remedial courses in college has increased over the past decade. The number of students who cannot use their KEES money in the second year of college has been around 50% for a few years. They cannot use the KEES because they cannot maintain the g.p.a. required.

  4. What Every Parent Needs to Know about Changes in KY Education Why are things changing? Readiness is a major concern. Not just for college…for career, too.

  5. What Every Parent Needs to Know about Changes in KY Education KERA KY Senate Bill 1

  6. What Every Parent Needs to Know about Changes in KY Education What is changing? Everything • Academic standards for all subject areas • Assessments used to gauge students’ levels of skill and knowledge acquisition • Accountability system- from district to school • level • Teacher and administrator evaluation system

  7. Address: www.education.ky.gov Click on Unbridled Learning for the latest on SB1 and changes in KY education.

  8. What Every Parent Needs to Know about Changes in KY Education What is changing? • Academic standards for all subject areas • Assessments used to gauge students’ levels of skill and knowledge acquisition • Accountability system- from district to school • level • Teacher and administrator evaluation system

  9. What Every Parent Needs to Know about Changes in KY Education What is changing? Academic standards- grade level expectations of what students need to learn in a subject area Example: Kindergarten math standards handout

  10. What Every Parent Needs to Know about Changes in KY Education • Revisions of Standards- Mandated by SB1 • Mandated Criteria • To meet the needs of 21st century learners in a global society • To prepare students for college and/or career • Be fewer, clearer, higher

  11. What Every Parent Needs to Know about Changes in KY Education • Revisions of Standards • KY utilized the work of the national Common Core Standards project adopting the English Language Arts/Literacy and Math standards in their entirety. • Our new standards are referred to as Kentucky Core Academic Standards (KCAS). • Forty-four states have adopted these same standards.( KY was the first state to adopt them.) For more, visit www.corestandards.org

  12. What Every Parent Needs to Know about Changes in KY Education • Revisions of Standards • Implementation of the Math and English Language Arts/Literacy standards begins this year. Our spring state tests will be aligned to these new standards. • New standards are coming for other subject areas over the course of the next two years. KY will utilize the work of the national organizations when developing new standards.

  13. What Every Parent Needs to Know about Changes in KY Education • Revisions of Standards • Math • Most would argue that standards are more rigorous • Less spiral…emphasis on less but to depth • Algebra I…names the same, but content changing • Major shifts in whatwas traditionally taught when

  14. What Every Parent Needs to Know about Changes in KY Education • Revisions of Standards • English/Language Arts • Emphasis on informational reading and argumentative writing (i.e., writing using evidence to support reasoning) • Emphasis on increasing student proficiency with more complex readings • Language skills (mechanics, grammar) emphasized • Shared responsibility for literacy by ELA and other content teachers

  15. What Every Parent Needs to Know about Changes in KY Education • Today… • Why are things changing? • What is changing? • What are the school district and schools doing in response to • these changes? • How will these changes impact my child?

  16. What Every Parent Needs to Know about Changes in KY Education • What we are doing • Training….addressing learning curve for staff • Changing curriculum • Changing course offerings • Identifying and addressing gaps between old and • new standards

  17. What Every Parent Needs to Know about Changes in KY Education • Today… • Why are things changing? • What is changing? • What are the school district and schools doing in response to • these changes? • How will these changes impact my child?

  18. What Every Parent Needs to Know about Changes in KY Education • How will these changes impact my child? • Better preparation for postsecondary/career • More rigorous experience in mathematics K-12 • More application of math concepts as well as • emphasis on understanding (in addition to execution • of skill) • Increase in informational reading and argumentative • writing (versus fictional writing) • Emphasis on more complex readings • New assessments both at local and state level

  19. What Every Parent Needs to Know about Changes in KY Education www.pta.org/common_core_state_standards.asp Click here to find parent grade level guides.

  20. What Every Parent Needs to Know about Changes in KY Education • Local Assessments…OCS Emphasis • Using “transfer tasks” to assess whether students can apply math in non-routine, real world situations. Can they transfer what they have learned to new situations and solve problems on their own? Do they really understand the math concepts?

  21. Equipping each student with the understandings, knowledge and skills to solve problems that we don’t even know are problems yet using technologies that haven’t been invented yet.

  22. Educate for their future not our past.

  23. What Every Parent Needs to Know about Changes in KY Education Terms Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA)- overhauled educational system in late 1980’s and has guided all facets of teaching and learning until recently Senate Bill 1 (SB1)- revision of KERA recently enacted by KY legislators impacting academic standards, accountability, assessment, and other areas of KY education

  24. What Every Parent Needs to Know about Changes in KY Education • To learn more: • Senate Bill 1 (SB1)- www.education.ky.gov • (Look for Unbridled Spirit logo on left-hand • column of Department of Ed page.) • Common Core Standards-www.corestandards.org • Math and English Language Arts standards as well as • background information regarding the project • National PTA-www.pta.org/common_core_state_standards.asp • Parents’ Guide to Student Success

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