Implementing Standards

BOB CORNACCHIOLIDERO TECHNICAL SERVICES

CEOWWW.DEROTECHNICAL.COM

GET2BOBC@GMAIL.COMBCORNACCHIOLI@GMAIL.COM

Agenda/Participants will be engaged in:

• Understanding Common Language• Constraints and “Givens” in PowerSchool• Best Practices- Standards are Coming!• Importing Standards using Excel• Conversion Scales• Looking at PowerTeacher Gradebook• Report Card options

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CEO - DERO Technical Services

Evangelist/Process Lead- Level Data

Marketing/ - ParkBench SoftwareTrainer

Director of Technology and Media Services Shrewsbury Public Schools (16 yrs)PowerSchool Administrator (6 yrs)

Bob Cornacchioli

Who are you?• Traditional or Standards Grades?

–Teachers have graded–Teachers will be grading–Start Date- 2014-2015–Hybrid Anyone?

• Common Core?

What is this Standard Based Movement

• Do you know?• Do your teachers know?• Do your parents know?• Does your district have Parent FAQ?• What kinds of PD has your district conducted?• How is mastery defined in your district?• What is the expectations for At-Risk population• Have you discussed Special Education students

CURRICULUM/ADMIN & TECHNICAL

Collaborate and learn the constraints

DRAW A LINE IN THE SAND

Illinois Standards Task Force - 5 Steps to SuccessKathy Dinger, Former Director of Curriculum and Instruction,

Libertyville D70, Libertyville, Illinois

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http://www.derotechnical.com/STANDARDS/DingerKeystoSuccess.pdf

Change requires continual checking of your stakeholders temperature!

Parents Teachers Tech Team

Read anything by Ken O’Connor aka The Grade Doctor

Far more important than the keystroke of a grade is how the district has trained teachers in the proper techniques in determining that grade. What Ken and others are saying about student achievement is mission critical. PowerTeacher has been designed with these principles.

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Learning Conversations: The Culture of Grading

Have you had these chats yet?

Same Curriculum

Across all classrooms

HOPE

ZERO’s

MISSING WORK

EXTRA CREDITTENDENCY

MAKE UP WORK

Evidence

Same Grading Practic

es

Across all classrooms??

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• With teachers at your Grade Level• With teachers at your School• With teachers in the District• What does it mean for next placement?• How are Special Needs students graded?• What do students need to know and be able to demonstrate?

Your Conversion Scale has been set… now what does a 4 or a C really mean?

Everyone on the Same Page

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Conversion Scales CT

Technical Note 8 Character Limit

Homebound Assessment

• Avoid Confusion- Adjust Rubrics and assessments

Sending Home Letter Grades and Percentages will confuse Parents

and Students

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How does an A-, B+, 93, 82, B-

EQUAL a 3?

S T A N D A R D SCHED

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C O U R S E S

S C L E S

IDENTIFIER

G R A E B O O K

STANDARDS NAMING SCHEMA

65*-75 Character Limit

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# of Reporting Periods dictates the # of characters

75

65

70

Cualquier persona española?

Do any of you need a Spanish report cards?• Identifier schema is VIP

ELA.K.1 could be ELA.KSP.1

• Spanish translation tends to be longerSpanish standards need not be associate to any classes (Teachers don’t need to see them in the GB)

• Coding on the report cards

^(*std.info.name;ELA.6SP.37)<tabc 9.9> ^(*std.stored.transavg;ELA.6.37;T1) <tabc 10.3>^(*std.stored.transavg;ELA.6.37;T2) <tabc 10.65> ^(*std.stored.transavg;ELA.6.37;T3)

Curriculum vs. Technical Labor Cost

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Grade K Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3

Consider a user friendly schema for standard identifiers

Removing a,b,c will save time- import template and report cards

STANDARDS • Create the standards collaboratively- Excel• Teacher Involvement = Ownership• Provide ample time for unwarping standards• Less is more- 65*-75 character limit• Number of Standards

– Report Card vs. Curriculum Guide– Core Content vs. Specials– Essential Skills, Effort or Habits of Mind

• Assessment Per Term• Changes and Real Estate – Text vs. #• Conversion Scales- Drop Downs for Teachers

STANDARDS TIMELINE (considerations)• District initiative or single school pilot???

– Pilots can pose some issues– Invite participation from non pilot schools

• 6+ Months in advance- identify standards• Guidance during Grade Level Selection- VIP• Decide your scale ( avoid traditional grading- A )

• Do all teachers have rosters in PS?• Create - Import File of Grade Level Standards• Set Expectations for Comment Writing• Discuss Assignments (GradeScales) vs Standards Assessment

(ConversionScales) • Communicate with all stakeholders

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SAMPLE

May 3,2013 – Standards Finalized-uploaded to Google DocsMay 8,2013 – Onsite development of preK-5 SBRCMay 30, 2013 Onsite training of Vanguard TeachersSept 14, 2013 – Modifications to SBRC and WIDA

Should Common Core Standards Impact Scheduling?

How many courses are you planning to use for English Language Arts?Reading – Writing – Speaking & Listening - Language

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Standards associated to Courses

Check Enrollment: Schools - Sections

Do you see courses in the left navigational areas?

Check ELA – do you have separate classes for READING, WRITING, SPEAKING & LISTIENING?

CTHomeroom has enrollment and this school

has 5 sections 1st Grade

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address scheduling before teachers can grade students!

All standards associated to HR is not recommended

Mass enroll students into each core content area & specials using dependent sections

CREATING AN EXCEL IMPORT FILE

NAME – CCOUNT65-70-75

Students can… (tense) & saves 2 spaces – no periods

Character Count for Standardshttp://www.derotechnical.com/STANDARDS/CharacterCount.html

Identifiers, List Parent, Level and Sort Order

List Parent, Level and Sort Order

List Parent – places “child” standards under their parents

Level – organizes standards using an outline method.

Level 1 = GradeLevel 2 = ContentLevel 3 = Sub

Headers/StandardsLevel 4 = Standards

1 2 3 4 5Sort Order – the

sequence which the standards appear in the Gradebook

Gradebook Preferences:

Calculate Higher Level Standards

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List Parent and Auto-Calculate

So if you don’t want to fix your standards…

what can I do?

FOR AUTO CALCULATING HIGHER STANDARDS TO WORKYOU MUST IMPORT YOUR STANDARDS A CERTAIN WAY!!!

COURSES & TYPE

,MA3,SCI3

,ELA4,ELA5

The Magic of the Last Three Columns

FALSE – FALSE – BLANK

TRUE – FALSE – BLANK

TRUE – FALSE – NUMBER

FALSE – TRUE - BLANK

Can’t see – Can’t comment on it - Can’t grade it

Can see – Can’t comment on it - Can’t grade it

Can see – Can’t comment on it – Can grade it

Can see – Can comment on it – Can’t grade it

Conversion Scales

Habits of Mind/Effort

Proficiency LevelsGrades 1-8 / MCAS

Proficiency LevelsFor K

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Conversion Scale #?

• Gen Table (6)

• Search for “scale”

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Or install Jason Springel’s customization T

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Final Grade Entry For Teachers

In Gradebook, If all standards were tied to HR, they would run from here

to the Atlantic Ocean

Associating standards to specific courses can reduce or eliminate scroll RIGHT.. Just switch classes and reveal content specific standards

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Access: PowerTeacher Gradebook

• Will the Art, PE, Music, Media, Computer, Band, Chorus… teacher be grading students?

• If YES – they must have rosters in PS

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BEST PRACTICES: CULLING STANDARDS

1. Less is More! In the Gradebook & on the Report Card

2. Grade Level teachers review all available standards (CC,SS,&LS) and CHERRY PICK

3. Consider CC Sub-Category headers4. Discuss/Decide which will be on the report card and

which will only be in the gradebook5. Wordsmith any standard over 65/70/75 characters6. Choose standards that lend themselves to being easily

associated to an assignment- not all do!

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Download Web Gradebook and Standards PPT

Grade Value of Conversions Scales

When teachers assess a standard more than once associated to multiple assignments, PTG averages these scores. Grade Value can’t be ZERO as seen earlier in this presentation. Round Up Scale – Cut off Scale = 50% of the Grade Level Delta

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Grade Value of Conversions ScalesDepending upon which standard based educator your curriculum folks have read, the concept of AVERAGE isn’t part of the standards movement.

YET the Gradebook has to apply some sort equation in order to convert scores to these Grade Labels 4,3,2,1.

Feedback from districts to Pearson has resulted in a new version (2.6) of PowerTeacher with the installation of PS 7.5. Averaging of standards scores assigned to multiple assignments is now becoming clearer.

PowerTeacher Gradebook is still evolving!!!!

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Calculations

Using PT Admin- your district will have to set policy on grading standards. The Gradebook will have to be set per school to look: • Default setting for final grades• Allow teacher modifications OR NOT• Calculations for Most Recent Scores

Decisions Decisions

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Training Teachers to Grade• Final Grade Entry** (RW will not work)

• Specialists vs. HR teachers • 5 mins. with a PPT presentation• Google PowerTeacher Gradebook- lots of

resources• Web Gradebook – A bit more time

( JING Movies/Atomic Learning/Mastery in Minutes/Google?)

• Comments- Comments- Comments- Narrative – Comment Bank – Content vs. Summative?

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Comment Length can be set at the

District-List Standards-for all your comment

standards

IF YOU LEAVE IT BLANK = 4000

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Additional Thoughts on Comments

When could use a comment length of 2 or 3 max?

12B345

5C5D67

8A8B8C9A9B9C11

How do you set the correct length?

When you create an entry box on your report card use the same sized box for all grades all subjects. Content specific comments are NORMALLY shorter than a summative narrative

Create a standard called

Teacher Comment asso

ciate to HR or

Subject Comment to Subject

“Straight quotes” with “Smart quotes”

If teachers use Word for pasting into the gradebook, special characters (like “quotation marks”, apostrophes’ and - dashes) can end up printing incorrectly on the final report card.

Word – Tools- Auto Correct- AutoFormat as you Type and REMOVE the √ from Straight quotes with smart Quotes

This only works if you change this setting BEFORE you typed them in- SORRY!

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Have you thought about Report Cards?

• Parent Portal – access to grades – list form• NOT DYNAMIC – all must be custom made• Object Reports vs. Report Works (Dynamic- CC)• Summative• Multi-page requires duplex printers

• http://schools.shrewsbury-ma.gov/egov/docs/1251933966124.htm• http://www.derotechnical.com/REPORTCARDS/REPORTCARDS.html

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New Option Available Now?

Standards Grades Search Tool Customizations

Within seconds, all the students who were under performing in that grade and the selected term appear on the scree and can be exported!

Administrators want %... now they can!

Each standard in given grade level and term display as a row. Click on the row and you get….

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Q & A

Bob CornacchioliDERO Technical Servicesbcornacchioli@gmail.comget2bobc@gmail.com www.derotechnical.com

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