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School Wide Strategies to Support Student Success on the ACT

School Wide Strategies to Support Student Success on the ACT. Collaborative Conference on Student Achievement Greensboro, NC March 2014. ThinkingAboutTheACT.wikispaces.com. Educate Your Staff. Why the ACT instead of the SAT? How does their course content align?

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School Wide Strategies to Support Student Success on the ACT

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  1. School Wide Strategies to Support Student Success on the ACT Collaborative Conference on Student Achievement Greensboro, NC March 2014

  2. ThinkingAboutTheACT.wikispaces.com

  3. Educate Your Staff • Why the ACT instead of the SAT? • How does their course content align? • How does ACT success impact students? • Do all staff know the content of ACT? • Do all staff know the benchmark? • How does it impact the HS accountability model?

  4. Educate Your Students • What doors open with ACT success? • What’s in it for me? • What are the benchmarks for my post-high school plans? • What content is on the ACT? • Should I guess on the ones I don’t know? • Is it timed? • What is the format?

  5. Educate Your Parents/Guardians • How does ACT compare to SAT? • What do the PLAN scores mean? • What’s in it for them? • What kind of ACT score is needed for their student’s post high school plans? • How can they be supportive?

  6. Sophomore Year: PLAN results

  7. When using PLAN, consider: • How do you share the report with students? • How do you share the reports with staff? • How do you share the reports with parents? • How do the reports inform instruction? • Strategic scheduling options • How do you “hook” students into caring?

  8. From ACT College Search App:

  9. PLAN Interpretive Guide

  10. What about incentives?

  11. Question of the Day

  12. Time: Fluency Matters

  13. Exposure to Format

  14. Exposure to Format

  15. ACT / SAT Comparison

  16. College Readiness Standards

  17. ACT Prep forMake-Up Attendance Time

  18. Motivate

  19. Educate Your Staff - Revisit • Why the ACT instead of the SAT? • How does their course content align? • How does ACT success impact students? • Do all staff know the content of ACT? • Do all staff know the benchmark? • How does it impact the HS accountability model?

  20. Educate Your Students - Revisit • What doors open with ACT success? • What’s in it for me? • What are the benchmarks for my post-high school plans? • What content is on the ACT? • Should I guess on the ones I don’t know? • Is it timed? • What is the format?

  21. Educate Your Parents/Guardians - Revisit • How does ACT compare to SAT? • What do the PLAN scores mean? • What’s in it for them? • What kind of ACT score is needed for their student’s post high school plans? • How can they be supportive?

  22. Shout-Out for What-Works

  23. Contact Me: Jan King NC Department of Public Instruction jan.king@dpi.nc.gov (828) 606-0177 On Twitter @jan4tarheels

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