Curriculum and Instruction Council

June, 2012

Welcome and Introductions

State Ed Update

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

Race To The Top

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