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Diploma Implementation Advisory Task Force September 26, 2006

Diploma Implementation Advisory Task Force September 26, 2006. THEMES FROM LAST MEETING. Stakeholder Engagement Communication Capacity Student Supports. Diploma Implementation Update. Project Coordination. ODE Diploma Coordination Team

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Diploma Implementation Advisory Task Force September 26, 2006

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  1. Diploma ImplementationAdvisory Task ForceSeptember 26, 2006

  2. THEMES FROM LAST MEETING • Stakeholder Engagement • Communication • Capacity • Student Supports

  3. Diploma ImplementationUpdate

  4. Project Coordination • ODE Diploma Coordination Team • On-going cross-office coordination of implementation planning and communications • Building internal capacity • Contracts in process • Project management plan • Stakeholder-input plan • 2008 Educator Supply and Demand Report (WOU) • Best practices case studies

  5. Essential Skills Task Force • Phase I: Define essential skills, indicators, proficiency levels and assessment options • Task Force met August 15th & September 5th • Defined Essential Skills and Indicators in accordance with postsecondary education and workforce expectations • Participants include: K-12, OUS, CC faculty, workforce & community representatives, students, special education representatives

  6. Essential Skills Task Force • Phase I continued: • Planning regional stakeholder-input sessions, cross-sector representation (K-12/Community Coll./Higher Ed/Business & Community) • Next meetings: Oct 1st & 2nd, Nov 6th , Dec 11th • Identify ES in current K-12 standards and compare with PS/WF expectations, identify gaps • Identify proficiency levels and assessment options

  7. Essential Skills Task Force • Phase II: Policy and operational implications, accountability and PK-20 alignment • Participants to include: K-12 administrators, OUS and CC academic officers and admissions administrators, business/community leaders, special education reps • Meet November/December 2007 • Timeline – adoption of ES June 2008

  8. Standards & Assessment Task Force • Charter and timeline in progress • Membership TBA, will include members from WestEd Critical Friends group, representatives from schools, districts, community colleges, higher education, and others • TF will address WestEd review of standards and assessment system and Dr. Dave Conley’s policy analysis of the assessment system

  9. Proficiency Credit Task Force • Charter and timeline in progress • Membership TBA • Researching existing national and state models

  10. Cost/Capacity Task Force • Charter and timeline in progress • Membership TBA • Identifying issues from other task forces

  11. Communications • Get Ready Oregon! Website http://www.getreadyoregon.org/ Public awareness campaign for parents and students

  12. Communications • Task Force Website on REAL http://www.ode.state.or.us/teachlearn/real

  13. Standards and the Diploma

  14. Oregon’s Academic Content Standards • Given Oregon’s standards-based education system, Standards and Assessment Task Force will be thread that ties diploma implementation work together • Oregon has a strong foundation upon which to build this work

  15. Oregon’s Academic Content Standards • Standards indicate what students should know and be able to do at specified grade levels • Oregon has content standards for eight subject areas: • Mathematics • English/Language Arts • Science • Social Sciences • Second Language • Health Education • Physical Education • The Arts

  16. Oregon’s Academic Content Standards: Review & Revision • Regular internal and external review of a state’s content standards is important to ensure their appropriateness, effectiveness, and relevance • This year (2007) WestEd conducted an independent review of Oregon’s standards system and compared them with other states’ standards

  17. Oregon’s Academic Content Standards: WestEd Findings • Overall, Oregon standards are of good quality: consistency and clarity, content coverage, depth of knowledge, reasonableness (importance for instruction), assessability • Recommendations included to guide future revisions and assessment considerations

  18. Oregon’s Academic Content Standards: WestEd Study • WestEd’s recommendations will provide framework for Standards and Assessment Task Force • Examples include: development of core standards, assessment of essential skills, and when to revise content standards

  19. Oregon’s Academic Content Standards: Mathematics • Revision of Mathematics standards currently underway • Expected adoption by State Board in March 2008 • Revised structure will easily support new diploma requirements • Reflects WestEd’s recommendations for clarity and coherency, follows “core standards” model

  20. Oregon’s Academic Content Standards • WestEd presently conducting study to identify Essential Skills embedded in current content standards • Will also provide additional recommendations and guidance for work on core standards

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