december 21, 2012
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Welcome to the December Administrators’ RTTT Webex !. December 21, 2012. Outcomes:. Describe the key details of the Math and ELA assessment transitions (3-8) Explain the Dignity for All Students Act Describe the resources that have been added to the engageNY site. Outcomes:. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Describe the key details of the Math and ELA assessment transitions (3-8)
Explain the Dignity for All Students Act
Describe the resources that have been added to the engageNY site
Outcomes:
Describe resources that have been added to the Principals’ Center site
Explain updates on the Literacy and Math Task work
Outcomes:
Focus: Priority standards will be the focus of the assessments--other standards will be deemphasized
Key Details of the Math Assessment (3-8) Transitions:
Coherence: progression of content and concepts
Key Details of the Math Assessment (3-8) Transitions:
Fluency: will not be assessed--it will be assumed that students possess the required fluencies◦No calculators in grades 6 and below—possibly 8 and
below
Key Details of the Math Assessment (3-8) Transitions:
Deep Understanding: standards will be assessed from multiple perspectives ◦ensuring and dictating standards in multiple ways while
not veering from primary target of measurement in standards
◦ fewer vocabulary questions
Key Details of the Math Assessment Transitions:
Application and Dual Intensity: ◦students will be expected to know grade level
math content with fluency ◦Students will be expected to know math
concepts to employ to solve real world math problems
Key Details of the Math Assessment Transitions:
Balancing Informational and Literary Texts: Passages will be authentic and balanced across informational and literary texts
Knowledge in the Content Areas: ◦Assessments will contain knowledge based questions
about the informational text ◦Students will not need outside knowledge to respond ◦Students will be expected to read informational texts
from content domains and respond in writing
Key Details of the ELA Assessment Transitions:
Staircase of Complexity: passage selection will be based on appropriate grade level
Text-based Responses: questions will require students to gather evidence from text
Key Details of the ELA Assessment Transitions:
Academic Vocabulary:
◦Students will need to be strategic in solving words contextually
◦Students will be tested indirectly through general comprehension of the text
◦Fluency in academic vocabulary is expected
Key Details of the ELA Assessment Transitions:
Effective July 1, 2012
The Dignity Act Legislative Intent: Provide all students in NY public schools an environment free of discrimination and harassment
No student shall be subjected to harassment, discrimination, or bullying by employees or students
No student shall be subjected to discrimination based on their:
Actual or perceived race, color, weight, national origin, ethnic group, religion, religious practice, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or sex
Dignity for All Students Act:
Dignity Act impacts the following SAVE requirements: ◦ code of conduct ◦Uniform Violent Incident Reporting
Code of conduct: an age-appropriate version of the policy written in plain-language shall be included in the code of conduct◦Codes of conduct are to be posted on the school web site
Dignity for All Students Act:
The commissioner shall create a procedure under which material incidents of discrimination and harassment on school grounds or at a school function are reported to the department at least on an annual basis
Additional Dignity Act Requirements--Policies and Guidelines to include:◦Guidelines relating to the development of
nondiscriminatory instructional and counseling methods◦Requirement that at least one staff member at every
school be thoroughly trained to handle human relations
Dignity for All Students Act:
Staff Training Note◦ Ideally--1 person in each school building to be the point person for Dignity Act related issues
◦Depending on the size of the district, a staff member must be available to go to every school as needed
and be readily accessible to other staff for consultation and advise- by phone or other means of
communication
◦ In smaller school districts, schools may share a staff member for multiple schools
◦There is no requirement to hire a new staff member
Dignity for All Students Act:
The Dignity Act and student instruction: ◦ instruction in civility, citizenship and character education◦Grades K-12◦Honesty tolerance, personal responsibility, respect of
others, observance of laws, courtesy, dignity
Dignity Act relates to safety issues in schools:◦Expected behavior--code of conduct◦Consistent enforcement with appropriate responses to
violations ◦Staff training of all staff◦Reporting disruptive activity already required to be
included as part of VADIR
Dignity for All Students Act:
Resources:◦NYSED Dignity Act Web Site:
Model Code of Conduct
Model Curriculum Materials
FAQs (students/parents and faculty/staff)
NYSED P-12 News and Notes Articles
New York State Center for School Safety
Dignity for All Students Act:
◦Dignity Act Facebook Page
◦Dignity Act Public Outreach Forums
◦Dignity Act Speakers @ Statewide Conferences
◦Resource Guide: http://regions.adl.org/new-york/pdfs/npfh-ny-resource-guide.pdf
◦http://scdn.wsboces.org/
Dignity for All Students Act:
Contact information: NYS Education Department◦[email protected]
NYS Center for School Safety◦518-486-6090
[email protected] 845-255-8989
Dignity for All Students Act:
Albany Common Core Updates
English Language Arts
Shifts 1 and 2◦Balancing informational and literary text◦Knowledge in the disciplines
Text Pairs◦ Literary with informational text◦Evidence based questioning
Network Team Institute Materials: Conference Resources
Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics by Richard Askey
National Mathematics Advisory Panel Report
Leadership for Excellence in Mathematics – Principal’s Role in Math Instruction
EduTron Resources on Mathematics Education for NYSED Network Teams
Visual Map of the Content Standards in Mathematics
Supporting Implementation of the Common Core Standards for Mathematics
January 10, 31 and February 7 Lead Evaluator Training—Part 2 @ UE
January 13th, 23rd
k-5 Math Task Work (Day 2)
January 17, 18,19
Network Team Training—Lead Evaluator
January 30
9-12 Math Task Work (Day 2)
February 6th, 10th
k-5 Literacy Task Work (Day 4)
February 13th, 16th
6-12 Literacy Task Work (Day 4)
Upcoming Dates: