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Academic Services Update with Focus on RttT and the Legislature
C & I Leadership TeamApril 18, 2011
Academic Services StaffNCDPI
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NC RttT Quick Facts
$399,465,768 for use over 4 years
50% 50%
$ 165 m to Districts & Charter Schools
$35 m pooled for NC Education Technology Cloud
$ 199 m spread over 15 State initiatives &time-limited, project-specific RttT management
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NC RttT Quick Facts
RttT dollars to be focused on…
• Building Capacity
• Developing Infrastructure
• Creating Sustainable Reform
Moving NC Further…Faster
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NC RttT Overarching Goals
• High Graduation Rates
• Strong Student Achievement
• Career- & College-Readiness
Statewide
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NC’s Aligned Plan
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Quality Standards & Assessments
Angela Quick, Pillar Lead
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Status• Transition to new standards and new
assessments – Smarter Balanced & PARC, Common Core PD this summer
• Proposals in house for assistance in creating specifications for instruction improvement system (IIS) for teachers that supports diagnostic, curriculum monitoring, and summative assessments to inform daily instruction to improve student outcomes
• Provide technology infrastructure and guidance to support effective use of the IIS
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Assessments
• House Bill 48 – eliminated US History, Civics & Economics, Physical Science, and Algebra II
• House Bill 766 (companion in Senate)– Establishes Explore, Plan & ACT– WorkKeys
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High School Accountability Measures
• Student Growth
• Student Achievement
• College & Career Readiness
• Math Course Rigor
• Graduation Rates
Where do we go from here?
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Diagnostics
• K-5 Reading and Math Progress Monitoring and Intervention– Out of House Budget
• Explore – Grade 8
• Plan – Grade 10
• ACT – Grade 11
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College and Career Promise
• Consolidation of Programs with Community Colleges– Career Articulation– Early College Options leading to Transfer
Certificate or Associate Degree– Early College High Schools– Students Assisted with Securing Tuition
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Turning Around the Lowest Achieving
Schools
Dr. Pat Ashley, Pillar Lead
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Evidence of Prior Success in High School Turnaround
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Goal of Race to the Top:No School in North Carolina Below 60%
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Goal of Race to the Top:No School in North Carolina Below 60%
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Bottom 5% of Conventional Schools
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Status
• Recruiting in process
• House Budget eliminates 13 permanent positions – 25 schools that might not be assisted in Turnaround
• Fewer adults in LEAs in target schools and Central Offices to support improvement
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Technology Infrastructure
Peter Asmar
Phil Emer
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Objectives of CloudProvide:
• Equity of access to computing and storage resources
• Efficient scaling according to aggregate NC K-12 usage requirements
• Consistently high availability, reliability and performance
• A common infrastructure platform to support emerging instructional and data systems
• Sustainable and predictable operational cost
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Status
• LEA input being gathered for Cloud
• Pearson purchased AAL – code for NC Wise
• Possible move to Power School in future
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Great Teachers & Principals
Dr. Lynne Johnson, Pillar Lead
Dr. Rebecca Garland , TE Co-Chair
Jennifer Preston, TE Coordinator
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Tackling Complex Issues
Measuring teacher and leader effectiveness in North Carolina
Increasing teacher and leader effectiveness in North Carolina
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Teacher Evaluation Standards
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Adding Standard Six
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Standard Six
Principals must use at least two sources of student growth data
Current options include:
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The Sixth Standard for TeachersNo teacher will be formally evaluated on the new system until he or she has three years of valid student growth data. Principals already consider student performance annually when evaluating teachers and making renewal decisions.
During the 2011 – 2012 school year, LEAs decide which sources of growth data to use.
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The Eighth Standard for Leaders
Student growth will become the eighth standard on the principal evaluation rubric.
Superintendents must use three years of valid student growth data when evaluating principals on the new system. Superintendents already consider student performance annually and when renewing contracts.
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Effective Teachers
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Required Data Collection
• By School the number and percentage of teachers in each rating category
• By LEA the number and percentage of principals in each rating category
• All data recorded by June 30 for teachers and July 15 for administrators
• Annual evaluations required
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Teacher Effectiveness Work Group
Diverse group of teachers, school administrators, central office staff, NCDPI staff, research scholars, and external partners Goal: Develop recommendations for the long-term integration of student growth into the evaluation system for educators
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Potential Teacher Effectiveness Measure
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Perception Data
• Teacher Working Conditions Survey
• Student Survey – Dr. Ron Ferguson, Harvard
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Effectiveness of New Teachers
Teach For America Expansion: Increase number of corps members in the eastern region of the state to 550
North Carolina Teacher Corps: Recruit graduates from North Carolina colleges and universities to teach in high-need LEAs not served by Teach For America
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Improving Equitable Distribution
• UNC Induction Program• Strategic Staffing• Performance Incentives for Low
Performing• Recruitment Efforts• Distinguished Leaders in
Practice Initiative
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Effectiveness of New Principals
Regional Leadership Academies: Train teachers to become administrators in high-need LEAs
Northeast Leadership AcademySandhills Leadership AcademyPiedmont-Triad Leadership Academy
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Effectiveness of Principals
• More training in using the evaluation instrument
• Introduction to Modified Teacher Evaluation Process
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Questions?
Dr. Lynne JohnsonDirector, Educator Recruitment and
Jennifer PrestonRace to the Top Project Coordinator for
Teacher and Leader [email protected]
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Major Career and Technical Education Initiatives
• Development of CTE Essential Standards– To State Board in May 2011, implementation
2012/13• Implementation of Elements® statewide
– Piloted Spring 2010, now in full implementation • Initiation of statewide Microsoft IT Academy
– 2,739 certifications earned as of April 14, 2011• Collaboration with First Gentleman’s Office and
the NCBCE for Students@Work Week– More than 17,000 middle school students served
• Articulation agreement with Community Colleges
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What the data show about CTE
2010 CTE concentrators who graduated within four years (members of 2010 cohort)
89.2%
Students who earned CTE postsecondary credit while in high school during 2009-2010
17,860
High school students who took at least one CTE course in 2009-2010
71.4%
2010 high school graduates who earned a concentration
52.9%
2009 CTE concentrators who continued further education and advanced training
74.2%
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Exceptional Children Updates
April 18, 2011
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09-10 Schools Participating in PBIS Initiative
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North Carolina MathState Improvement Project
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K-12 Curriculum & Instruction Division
New Director:
Maria Pitre-Martin
919-807-3817
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Career & College: Ready, Set, Go: Race to the Top?
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Common Core – ELA & Mathematics
Essential Standards – Science, Social Studies, World Languages, Arts Education, Guidance, Healthful Living
Instructional Tools Posted: http://www.ncpublicschools.org/acre/standards/support-tools/
Standards Documents
Crosswalk Documents
Unpacking Documents
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Additional Legislative Concerns
• Reduced capacity in LEAs and fewer adults in school buildings
• No state professional development
• No mentor funds
• Reduced instructional supplies
• No textbooks until 2013
• Elimination of Teacher Academy and NCCAT
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Legislature, continued
• Elimination of School Improvement Plan and AIG Plan
• Cuts to DPI
• Transfer of More at Four to DHHS
• Rapid expansion of charter schools
• Changes to athletic programs
• Fitness Testing
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