Washoe County School District State Assessment Support AIMM

1. Washoe County School DistrictState Assessment SupportAIMM Presented by the Office of Academics A&S Meeting – March 2, 2012

2. Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. -- Carl Bard

3. Lengthening our Stride • ANALYSIS • INSTRUCTION • MOTIVATION • MANAGEMENT Stretch Run

4. Essential Outcomes • Share good ideas and best practices • Learn and take away ideas and strategies from colleagues • Present the Assessment Department’s new resources webpage focused on the four facets (Analysis, Instruction, Motivation and Management)

5. My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. -- Abraham Lincoln Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there. -- Bo Jackson AYP: Accountability TO ALL and FOR ALL Students

7. It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. -- Epictetus

8. ANALYSIS • Data Study • SMT – Student Monitoring Tool • MAP – Fall and Winter MAP data • CRT/HSPE from previous year or administration • Subject common assessments • Classroom formative assessment • Student monitoring and interventions • Tier 1, Tiers 2 & 3 • AIMSweb

9. Activity: ANALYSIS How do you use the tools/strategies shown in the presentation at your school? What other tools/strategies do you use to review student data? Stand up: Sit Down: • Write down as many tools/strategies as you can think of on a post-it note. • The entire group stands up when directed. • One person begins by describing one of the items on his/her list. • Any other person that is standing up sits down if the given idea is the one he or she was going to share. • The group continues to share until every person is seated.

10. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. -- Henry B Adams Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

11. INSTRUCTION • Practice and strategies for written/constructed response (e.g. ACE, 2-column); CR self-monitoring • High-powered / High-yield strategies (what works!) • Use of state instructional materials; simulated tests • Alternate homework plan; home review packets (math, reading) • Formative Assessment/“Kidwatching” • Rehearse appropriate accommodations • Intervention sessions (during/after school; Saturdays) • Test and personal preparation tips/strategies • “Blitz” • Grade level standards review for 6-8 students in high school math courses (Algebra, Geometry)

12. Activity: INSTRUCTION What do these instructional strategies look like at your school? Check List • Check the items that appear on the list that you already utilize at your school. • Add details about how you use each item. • Add and describe any strategy that you utilize at your school that does not appear on the list. • One or two members from each table group shares information about one of the items on their checklist.

13. I discovered I always have choices, and sometimes it’s only a choice of attitude. -- Judith M. Knowlton Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching?

14. MOTIVATION • Motivational assembly • Student goal-setting and self-assessment • PTA (parent group)/community involvement • Incentives and Motivators • Motivational meetings with small groups of students • Administrators meet with groups of students • Announcements; communications • Building décor/support media • Blackboard Connect (Connect-Ed calls) • Home visits to parents of selected students • Staff/student breakfasts; success kick-off

15. Activity: MOTIVATION What techniques does your school utilize to motivate students for state-required tests? Rally Robin • Select one person to be the recorder for your group. • All table members provide ideas as the recorder writes them down. • Select one person from your table to report ideas to the entire group.

16. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle

17. MANAGEMENT • “Stretch Run” Activities • Develop a schedule • Support Team (planning, preparation, communication) • Parent communication • Identify resources and gather materials • “Test Day“ Administration Activities • Testing groups • Accommodations review • Structure for testing days; bell schedules • Testing environment • Late arrivals, make-up/emergency plans • Breaks; Student nutrition and hydration

18. Activity: MANAGEMENT In the months before the test and up to the actual test date, what type of strategies do you utilize to prepare students for state-required tests? (3–2–1) x 2 • Use two post-its. Label one “Stretch Run” and the other “Test Day.” • For each post-it, write down at least three ideas that you have for managing stretch run activities and at least three ideas that you have for managing test day procedures. • Share two ideas from each of your post-its with your table group. • As a group select one idea from “Stretch Run” and another idea from “Test Day” to share with the entire group.

19. If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right. -- Henry Ford If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. -- Abraham Maslow

20. TOOLS/RESOURCES

21. A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way. --Allen Klein