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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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THEMES FROM LAST MEETING • Stakeholder Engagement • Communication • Capacity • Student Supports
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
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
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
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
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
Proficiency Credit Task Force • Charter and timeline in progress • Membership TBA • Researching existing national and state models
Cost/Capacity Task Force • Charter and timeline in progress • Membership TBA • Identifying issues from other task forces
Communications • Get Ready Oregon! Website http://www.getreadyoregon.org/ Public awareness campaign for parents and students
Communications • Task Force Website on REAL http://www.ode.state.or.us/teachlearn/real
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
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
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
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
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
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
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