Welcome, High School Principals!January 22, 2015

Agenda and Updates on wiki hsprograms.pbworks.com

Brian Pittman Holly Springs High SchoolTom Dixon Apex High School

Content Updates

Social Studies

Voter Registration Drive March 23-27 for the Leadership Academies March 30-April 6 for everyone else Please alert Voter Registration Coordinators

Social Studies

Name change for Civics & Economics to “American History: The Founding Principles, Civics & Economics”

Effective 2015-16 Does not effect

sequencing of courses

Can still take AP US History and IB History of Americas as stand-alone courses

Advanced Placement

AP Audit Information

AP Survey

Athens Green Hope Middle Creek Millbrook Wakefield

COMPLETE

English

English II Benchmarks Performance Tasks Last Semester– Try it and

Report This Semester– Normed

across district Implementation Guide Score Reports for Part 1

Reading and Part 2 Writing in April

All materials in Content Updates and on English wiki

Cathy Moore and Ruth Steidinger

Managerial Leadership

11:30-1:00

Lunch

21st Century Assessment

Strategic Leadership

Balanced Assessment?

Assessment Alignment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zamE9cvC6u0#t=28

“4C” Measurement: The Future is Now

• College and Work Readiness Assessment (CWRA+)– Online assessment includes a performance task and 25 selected-

response items– 5 WCPSS high schools in Spring 2015– Analytic reasoning, problem solving, and written communication– http://cae.org/images/uploads/pdf/CWRA_Student_Guide_Institution.pdf

• Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)– Administered to 15-year-olds in 70 countries– Math, Science, Reading, and general cross-curricular competencies– 5 WCPSS high schools in 2014; 5 more in Spring 2015– http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/PISA/

K-12 Aligned Literacy

Instructional Leadership

Writing Focus Group

Sherri Miller, K-12 DirectorSara Overby, HS ELA Melissa Hurst, MS ELABarbara Sorensen, ES ELASharon Collins, ES ELA Walter Harris, ES ELA Shanta Lightfoot, MS ELA

The Heart of Writing

Argument TrainingDay 1

Day 2– March 2, 2015CR2 1400

• Send the same team for Day 2.

• HS Programs pays for subs.

• Day 4—Writing in the Content Areas• Day 5—Performance Tasks/Integrated Units

http://tinyurl.com/Growing-Writers-Video

Designing Aligned K-12 Writing Rubrics

• 24 Teachers• Across District• Across Grades K-12• Across Content

Areas

David Balmer, SocSt, HeritageTammy King, SocSt, Holly SpringsKristen Larsen, SocSt, SandersonLaura Stiles, Sci, WakefieldMolly Bostic, Sci, HeritageMary Cate Larocca, ELA, Southeast RaleighJenni Greene, ELA, Holly SpringsLauren Genesky, ELA, MillbrookCarrie Horton, ELA, Vernon Malone

ArgumentInformative

Narrative

Aligned Rubrics for Quality

K through 12

Cross-CurricularImplementation

http://map.mathshell.org/materials/_map/_map/pics/map_teachers_1.jpg

2. Look across: one skill criterion• What do you notice about growth within and across

grade spans?• How might these rubrics support a call to rigor in

content-area learning?

1. Look down • What do you notice about skills and

criteria?• How might these fit all content areas?

Apply It: Choose a skill criterion. Read the student response. What subskill feedback would you give this student? How can the quality continuum be used to support qualitative student growth, rather than quantitative grades?

Table Talk

http://tinyurl.com/k9cgu3c

We Need Some Bright Ideas!

http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/light-bulb-idea-821688.jpg

Google Response Formhttp://goo.gl/forms/Io07BqGRMD

One per group

What ideas do you have for implementation in a high-school culture and climate?

http://map.mathshell.org/materials/_map/_map/pics/map_teachers_1.jpg

http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/06/0925/m/02-IMG_7678.jpg

Teacher Professional Development

Fidelity of Cross-Curricular Implementation

http://www.onlinecolleges.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Writerfolio.jpg

Interactive Digital Rubrics

K-12 Digital Portfolios

Access to Rigor

Instructional Leadership

Equity Leadership MindsetStart with “Why”

See Inequities

Understand Inequities

Interrupt Inequities

AP Potential—Online (access code required)Right to Rigor—Via email on January 8Five-Year Report—Online (access code required)Integrated Report—Via email on January 8Quickr Roster

Reports:

AP Potential Report

Limitations?

Right to Rigor Overview

Right to Rigor: Student & Course Gaps

Right To Rigor Reports

Right to Rigor Reports

Sample Five-Year Report

Integrated Report…Page 20

Quickr Roster

See link in agenda to ACT document:

“Using PLAN to Identify Student

Readiness for Rigorous Courses in High School”

Identifying Barriers

1 2 3

Debrief

Barriers added by your group? Ways to interrupt barriers? Areas of focus? Request from HS Team: ask department

chairs of core academic areas how their department approaches the recommendation process

Graduation

Managerial Leadership