Curriculum and Instruction Council

June, 2012

Welcome and Introductions

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ESEA Waiver• Norm referenced (5% - 15%)• New categories• No SES requirement• Single diagnostic tool

RTTT Miscellany• Surveys out• Common Core sample items• Ambassador program• Check your math!

Legislative Updates

IT&D

SUMMER-CI&A

Summer Regional CI&A Opportunities

CCLS ELA-Elementary June 28 Yes

CCLS: Content Literacy- July 11 4

CCLS ELA-Elementary- August 9 Yes

Responsive Classroom-August 13-17 Yes

Formative Assessment- August 16 Yes

PBL-Elementary- August 21,21 Yes

CCLS-Secondary-August 22 4

PBL-Secondary= August 22,23 Yes

2012-13 CI&A

• Thank you…. 24 responses representing 19 districts

• Format– Regional– Customized

• Included days

And the survey says….Top Priority

• CCLS: planning-prioritizing and unwrapping• CCLS: Standards based units• CCLS: Standards mapping and curriculum • Strategies for differentiated instruction• Instructional strategies for math shifts• Use of data for instructional decisions-protocols for

looking at student work and assessments• Developing common formative assessments• Development of quality assessments• Regional assessment development• Strategies working with students from poverty

Next level of priority….

• Standards based planning (Instruction for All)• Supporting needs of diverse learners• Co-teaching• Instructional Strategies:

– Content literacy, Vocabulary, Comprehension, Cognitive engagement, literacy shifts

• Century 21 Skills and Effective Teaching• PBL-Connecting with CCLS implementation• Responsive Classroom Part 1 and 2• Responsive Classroom for paraprofessionals• Use of teacher language• Students from poverty• Response to Intervention-Secondary Level

Remember: Other options

• District specific• On-Site (or at

BOCES)• Your specified

outcomes• Every district has

minimum of one included day and most have Network Team days, too

Literacy Programs

• Reading Recovery• Leveled Literacy Intervention• Red Level- Grades 3 and above….• Will start late fall

Teacher Centers

• Assessment: A Balanced Overview…and the Nitty Gritty– October 3, 2012 – A Balanced Assessment

Overview

– December 6, 2012 – Using Your Common Formative Assessments – Looking at student work

– February 26, 2013 – Daily Formative Assessments

– April 10, 2013 – Rounding up your Evidence for Standard #5 –Assessment For Student Learning

– May 8, 2013 – Annual Meeting at Dinosaur

CNY NYS ASCD

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Math Solutions• K-8 teachers of math• K-2, 3-5, 6-8 bands (two groups each??)• 3 days; $625• Three NT slots per district – utilized• August 8, 9, 10 (Rodax/Henry)• Extra seats not being used. Give to

NT? Reduce size?

• This is year 2 of 4.

• Are you ”mapped” out?

• Deliverables and expectations?

• Surveys end of this year to collect implementation data (teacher, principal, superintendent, and NT/NTE leader level)

• Site visits from SED starting next year

• Common planning time for all teachers in schedules?

• Planning for PD days and half-days?

• We are working on a sample two-year plan for districts to use as a starting point.

RTTT Planning

RTTT Planning“High Level” Mapping

Common Formative Assessment Points

Unit Identification

Common Formative Assessment work and unit planning work

• Common Formative Assessment

• October 9th

• March, likely, too

RTTT Planning

• SLO bank is up!

• 70+ do far

• Posted at State 20% in APPR microsite

• Examples, not exemplars, will continue to be added

• NOT PRE/POST!

SLO Example &Bank Development

Regionally Developed Assessments

• OCM BOCES facilitation– Overview of assessment development– Overview on writing quality items, rubrics, – Review of mapping to standards

• Plan for 4 days• Districts send up to 2 teachers per course• Districts that participate receive product• Summer and early fall sessions

Need to know:

• What courses?

• What sessions?

• How many participants?

• Notes from CI&A are posted

• Debrief categories to be recorded

– Scheduling of dates

– Scheduling hours

– Scheduling scorers (who, how many)

– Roles (BOCES, district, clerical support)

– Daily mechanics of scoring

– Daily mechanics of handling

– Other

• RIC perspective (will send something)

Regional Scoring

• Will start to plan in September:

–Regional January Regents???

–Regional 3-8

–Regional June Regents

Regional Scoring

Curriculum and Instruction Council

Next Meeting: September 20, 2012