Writing Two ‘Online’ LEA Perspectives Craven County Schools

1. Mike Tart, ELA/Writing Learning Systems Coach Cindy Manning, LEA Test Coordinator WritingTwo ‘Online’ LEA PerspectivesCraven County Schools

2. Teamwork is Key • District and School Writing Goal Teams Strong Curriculum Leadership with Vision District and School Technology Staff District and School Testing Staff

3. IMPORTANT: Stay in Communication!

4. Testing:A Look at What Has Worked for Us • Writing Action Plans • Training and Support • Best Practices • Responsibilities • Forms • Technology Support

5. District Writing Action Plans - Testing District curriculum, testing, and technology staff met together to develop a procedures document. This document is a work in progress maintained by LEA TC on our district testing website.

6. District Trainings to Support Implementation - Testing • LEA Test Coordinator trains School Test Coordinators in September • Comprehensive Guide 2009-2010 North Carolina Instruction System • Craven County Schools Writing Instruction System Procedures • School Test Coordinator Responsibilities and Quick Reference Guide • NCRegistration • Test Security • LEA Test Coordinator includes Writing updates via email and testing update portion of other test trainings • School Test Coordinator is responsible for training school staff on district WIS Procedures

7. Best Practices - Testing • Request for Participation in Writing Instruction System document • Registering Students: Testing Office bulk uploads all students into NCRegistration. Then STC registers new students as needed. • Pull Birthday lists from NCWISE by grade level – these have more information and detail for entering students into NCR (STC) • Pull Admission/WD from NCWISE on regular basis to update NCR (STC) • Teacher Accounts and/or Student Passwords: • Download csv file from NCRegistration (STC) • Use Mail Merge for instruction sheets and/or to create labels for login note cards (STC) • ELA teachers have flash drives for saving all papers • Log or monitoring system of student completion

8. Responsibilities for Implementation - Testing

9. District Forms Created to Support Implementation - Testing LEA Test Coordinator School Test Coordinator Classroom Teacher

10. Technology Support for Implementation -Testing • District and School technology personnel assist with hardware and/or internet connectivity issues as needed during CSTA and ODTA sessions and scoring process. • NCRegistration: • School Test Coordinators create and delete user and student accounts • School Test Coordinators schedule On Demand sessions • District Office of Testing and Accountability assists when issues arise • Writing Instruction System (WIS): School Test Coordinators are trained to monitor online scoring completion in the WIS

11. Curriculum:A Look at What Has Worked for Us • Writing Action Plans • Training and Support • Best Practices • Responsibilities • Forms • Technology Support

12. District Writing Action Plans - Curriculum Superintendent’s Cabinet District Writing Action PlanManager (Reports to Cabinet Monthly) • Alignment of district and school Writing Action Plans and Goal Teams (Key strategies, Action steps) • Shared Template used at all levels • Accountability for reporting to district and school cabinets. District Writing Goal Team (Monthly Meetings) School Writing Goal Team Managers (Quarterly Meetings) School Writing Goal Team Manager and Action Plan (Reports Weekly to School Cabinet) School Writing Goal Team (Meets on scheduled basis)

13. District/School Action Plan Focus • Implementation of Writer's Workshop K-12 • Implementation of State Writing Instruction System • Implementation of alignment pilot at grades 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 • Writing data collection, analysis, and reporting

14. District Trainings and Support for Implementation - Curriculum • NCDPI Writing Scoring Rubrics Training (Features/Conventions and Content) • NCDPI WIS Moodle Training Support • District Support for Individual School Goal Teams Based on Need (ex. integration into curriculum/development of writing tasks)

15. Best Practices - Curriculum • Move away from mindset of old assessment system • First on-demand used as baseline • First and second content-specific task used for writing instruction and formative assessment • Authentic Writing Tasks incorporated into classroom instruction and assessment • Students encouraged to work on outside of class • Can draft online or upload from thumb drive • Final Copy – Students type at top of paper in WIS • Score as students complete – don’t wait! • Final on-demand task used as summative assessment of growth

16. Responsibilities for Implementation - Curriculum District Writing Coordinator District Writing Goal Team School Writing Goal Team Managers School-Based Writing Goal Team

17. District Forms Created to Support Implementation - Curriculum • White Writing Folder • Houses On-Demand and Content-Specific Tasks • Documents scores on all assessment pieces K-12 • Placed in CUM Folder at end of year • Next year’s teacher reviews student writing/can compare with new baseline

18. Technology Support for Implementation - Curriculum • Classroom teachers coordinate scheduling of computer labs with school-based technology facilitator and STC (STC schedules on-demand in NCRegistration) • 1:1 Laptop pilots

19. Together Everyone Achieves More! Teamwork is Key… Now it’s your turn…Go forth and write!

20. Questions?