What tools do you have in your toolbox? Jennifer Weeks, Assistant Superintendent Dr. Meredith Park, Formative Assessment Coordinator.

What tools do you have in your

toolbox?Jennifer Weeks, Assistant Superintendent

Dr. Meredith Park, Formative Assessment Coordinator

Overview of TE21

• Case 21 Benchmark Assessments

• Case 21 Item Bank

• Academy of Reading

• Academy of Math

Common Core Implementation

What do we want for our students?

• Prepared for the Workforce

• Prepared for College

• Prepared for the Military

• Lifelong Learners

• Critical Readers and Thinkers

CCSS ImplementationWhich tools will help us achieve these goals?

• Collective Experience

• Collaboration

• Professional Development

• Common Assessments

• Collaborative Leadership

• Curriculum-Instruction-Assessment Alignment

• Personalization

Collective Experience

• Minimize Duplication of Efforts

• Encourage Collaboration

• Equity

Common Expectations

Mobility

Collaboration

• Sustained

• On-going

• Team Meetings/Collegial Conversations

• Interdisciplinary Coordination

Professional Development

• Capacity Building

• Data-driven Instruction

• “Know and are able to do”

Common Assessments

• Formative Assessment

• Summative Assessment

• Frequent

• Technology-dependent

Collaborative Leadership

• Culture Creator

• Focus -

• Simplify

• Amplify

• Clarify

Curriculum-Instruction-Assessment

• “Know and are able to do”

• Rigorous

• Text-dependent questioning

• Application

• School-wide/District-wide

Curriculum-Instruction-Assessment

• Demonstrate independence

• Build content knowledge

• Respond to varying demands

• Comprehend and critique

• Text complexity

Curriculum-Instruction-Assessment

• Read like detectives

• Academic vocabulary

• Annotate

• Write critically - Why?

Personalization

• Tiered Instruction

• Changes in Text Complexity

• Lexile Level Shifts

• Grade Span Shifts in Mathematics

CASE21 Pilot Spring 2011

• Lake Cormorant Elementary School

• Horn Lake Middle School

• Southaven High School

Testing Process

• Send previous MCT2 data to CASE21

• Pacing Guides

• Draft Review

• Test and Answer Document Delivery

• Test Administration

• Scoring and Data Dissimination

Pacing Guides

• Importance of Pacing Guides

• Teacher and/or Curriculum Specialist Input

• Suggested Pacing Guides

• http://www.case21inc.com/products-and-services/pacing-guides/mississippi-pacing-guides

Draft Review

• Curriculum Alignment

• Blueprint Alignment

• Cumulative/Comprehensive

• Test Item Stem/Foils Format

Test Delivery

• Printing Decisions

• Test Packaging and Dissemination

• Answer Documents

Test Administration

• Planning Calendar

• Administer in MCT2/SATP conditions

Scanning/Scoring• Answer documents returned to a

central location.

• Answer documents scanned in-house and uploaded to CASE21 for review.

• Answer documents are returned to the schools.

• CASE21 compiles data and uploads reports on sharefile site.

Data Reports

• District Report for Comparison of Schools

• School Report for Comparison of Teachers

• Teacher Report for Student Identification

• Item Analysis Report with Red/Green Visuals

District Report

School Report

Teacher Report

Questions?

Jennifer Weeks, Assistant Superintendent

Email: [email protected]

Meredith Park, Formative Assessment Coordinator

Email: [email protected]