District Assessment Coordinators and WaKIDS WebinarOctober 14, 2013 1.

District Assessment Coordinators and WaKIDS

Webinar—October 14, 2013

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Washington Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills

● Background/Context for WaKIDS

● DAC Roles in Supporting Teaching Strategies GOLD® Assessment and Data Reporting

● Accessing Teaching Strategies GOLD® Reports

● DAC to DAC: Lessons Learned

Webinar Topics

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Washington Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills

WaKIDS: A Kindergarten Entry Transition Process

• Cross-Sector Partnership• First state K assessment and

only one to be observational, strengths-based and whole child-focused

• Formally recognizes: Parents as partners Collaboration of early learning

and K—12 • Process and product

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Washington Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills

WaKIDS Assessment

• Uses Teaching Strategies GOLD®

• Conducted by trained teachers

• Occurs over a period of 2 months; completed by October 31

• Measures strengths in 6 areas of development and learning

• Observation-based; ongoing; embedded in classroom activities

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GOLD® Differs from Other State Assessments

Teaching Strategies GOLD® Other State Assessments (MSP, HSPE, EOC)

Measures development and learning evident at beginning of school year

Measures knowledge and skills evident at end of school year or course

Observational Multiple-choice or open-ended response

Assesses whole child Assesses knowledge and skills in specific academic content areas

Conducted while children are engaged in learning activities (curriculum-embedded)

Conducted as a separate testing activity

Reports are immediately accessible to teacher/school after data is finalized

Lag time before teacher receives student data

Washington Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills

DAC Roles in Supporting Teaching Strategies GOLD® Assessment and Data Reporting

● Summer/Early Fall: Learn how the GOLD online system works to provide administrative technical assistance

● Late August/Early September: Assist with the process of uploading class lists/student rosters to GOLD.

● Upload electronically to GOLD system, using a template

● Add students one student at a time, should class lists change after upload

● Make sure each student has an SSID (new 2013 bulk SSID upload system allows students to be assigned SSIDs prior to full CEDARS submission)

● September/October: Assist with implementation of GOLD.

o Work with principals to manage the placement of students (transferring across classes or schools within district; adding students)

o Never delete a student from the system! Instead, archive students who have left the district. When in doubt, call WaKIDS office! 360-725-6161

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Washington Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills

DAC Roles in Supporting Teaching Strategies GOLD® Assessment and Data Reporting

• Fall: Become familiar with the data reports available through the Teaching Strategies GOLD system.

• Before October 31, help principals access the Assessment Status Report to review teachers’ progress toward entering final data (aka “finalizing checkpoint data”)

• After October 31, help principals analyze the data. Teaching Strategies GOLD reports can be accessed as soon as the data has been finalized.

• Help principals access the Snapshot Report and show them the Individual Child Report, Class Profile and Development and Learning Reports that teachers can generate.

• Winter/Spring: Analyze district data available from OSPI in January 2013 through WAMS and State Report Card

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Washington Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills

Teaching Strategies GOLD®

• How do teachers finalize their checkpoint data?

• Transferring and Archiving Students

• Generating and Analyzing the Assessment Status Report

Shelley Fisher, Implementation Manager

Teaching Strategies, LLC

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Washington Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills

And Other Important StuffPat Cummings

Tracye Ferguson

Christina Dabney

Tacoma School District

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DAC to DAC: Lessons Learned

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DAC to DAC: Lessons Learned 1

• Use the Excel Template provided and import the student roster to Teaching Strategies GOLD

• Make sure you include SSIDs

• Teachers need the student rosters loaded before they can record WaKIDS data

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DAC to DAC: Lessons Learned 2

• At a certain point the teachers should be responsible for adding and editing students (don’t delete a student)

• We send them directions and ask them to get help from fellow teachers

• Student transfers from class to class or school to school (within district) are done at the district level

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DAC to DAC: Lessons Learned 3

• Audit your teacher and student class lists

• Last year’s WaKIDS records should be “archived” (Teaching Strategies takes care of this in the summer prior to the next school year).

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DAC to DAC: Lessons Learned 4

• Check the progress of your teachers…Using Assessment Status Report (under “Checkpoint” tab on Teaching Strategies site)

• Notify principals and teachers on a weekly basis (or more) regarding progress

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DAC to DAC: Lessons Learned 5

• Once the teachers have completed collecting data through Teaching Strategies GOLD you can look at your results with the Snapshot Report

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WaKIDS Areas and Objectives

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Washington Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills

PDF Snapshot Report

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Washington Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills

PDF Snapshot Report

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Washington Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills

Teaching Strategies GOLD technical support: • Call 1-866-736-5913• Hours: Monday through Thursday 5:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time• E-mail: [email protected] with a description of your concern and your

username

OSPI and ESD support, contact: • Susan Swanberg (360-725-6161 or [email protected]) for questions regarding

usernames, transferring users, accessing GOLD, resetting passwords

• Gretchen Stahr Breunig (360-725-6180 or [email protected]) for questions regarding training, teacher or principal support, ESD contact information

• Your regional ESD WaKIDS Coordinator for technical classroom and curriculum assistance and regional support; see list at: http://www.k12.wa.us/WaKIDS/Contacts.aspx

• Kathe Taylor (360-725-6153 or [email protected]) for questions about overall implementation and data questions

WaKIDS website: http://www.k12.wa.us/wakids

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Questions? WaKIDS Resources