ncce 2016: changing face of instructional materials
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The Changing Face of Instructional MaterialsNOT YOUR PARENTS’ TEXTBOOKS
Barbara SootsOpen Educational Resources Program Manager
Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Agenda
Instructional Materials Overview
◦ Categories
◦ Policy considerations
Instructional Materials Review
◦ Review instruments
◦ Building a review team
Instructional Materials Work Currently Underway
◦ OSPI efforts
◦ OER
◦ Other state and non-profit efforts
Introductions…
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1. What does your current selection and adoption process look like and how would you like to see it change?
2. What types of support does your district need with regard to instructional materials, review, selection, and adoption?
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Old vs New
ĭn-strŭk′shən’al mə-tîr′ē-əls
All materials designed for use by students and their teachers as learning resources to help students to acquire facts, skills, and/or to develop cognitive processes. These instructional materials, used to help students meet state learning standards, may be printed or digital, and may include textbooks, technology-based materials, other educational media, and assessments. They may carry different licensing types from open to all rights reserved.
Under the Instructional Materials Umbrella
Individual units, lessons, and plansSupplemental resourcesAssessmentsK-12 core curriculaDistrict-created materials/resourcesOnline coursesTeacher-created materials
Maple by kanegen – CC BY
May be printed or digital.
May carry different licensing types from open to all rights reserved.
Instructional Material Considerations
New learning standards,frameworks, and assessments
Increased development ofopen educational resources
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Why OER…
8It Looks Insoluble by David Goehring– CC BY
WSSDA Featured Policies
District Sample Policies & Procedures – Updated April 2015
Instructional Materials Selection & Adoption: Policy 2020; 2020P
New Instructional Materials Model Policy
Core Instructional Materials are the primary instructional resources for a given course. They are district-approved and provided to all students to help meet learning standards and provide instruction towards course requirements.
Alternative Core Materials are the primary instructional materials for a given course that are used with a subset of students. These materials are intended to replace approved core materials and may be used for specialized course offerings or flexible learning environments.
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Core Instructional Materials are the primary instructional resources for a given course. They are district-approved and provided to all students to help meet learning standards and provide instruction towards course requirements.
Alternative Core Materials are the primary instructional materials for a given course that are used with a subset of students. These materials are intended to replace approved core materials and may be used for specialized course offerings or flexible learning environments.
Instructional Materials Categories
Core Instructional Materials are the primary instructional resources for a given course. They are district-approved and provided to all students to help meet learning standards and provide instruction towards course requirements.
Alternative Core Materials are the primary instructional materials for a given course that are used with a subset of students. These materials are intended to replace approved core materials and may be used for specialized course offerings or flexible learning environments.
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Intervention Materials are designed to support strategic or intensive intervention for students who are at risk of not meeting established learning standards.
Supplemental Materials are used in conjunction with the core instructional materials of a course. These items extend and support instruction.
Temporary Supplemental Materials are those items used in conjunction with the core instructional materials of a course that are of interest or value for a short period of time and are chosen within district-established guidelines.
Instructional Materials Categories
Roles and Responsibilities
Instructional Material Type
Role
Certificated Teaching Staff
Principal SuperintendentInstructional
Materials Committee
School Board
Core material identifyestablish adoption
procedurerecommend adopt
Alternative core identifydesignate selector
Intervention Identifydesignate selector
Supplemental identifydesignate selector
Temporary Supplemental
select –within district
guidelines
WSSDA Featured Policies
Selecting Instructional Material
Does this meet the needs of my district with respect to target learning goals and identified needs.
Does the item need to go through a vetting process? By whom? What review instruments are available or what reviews already exist?
Do I have permission to use this? Are adaptations required and do you have permission to adapt?
What is the delivery platform? Consider equity and access issues.
Before you think about using ANY resource, you need to answer some questions…
Review Lenses – Building Your Team
Teachers/content specialists
Quality and alignment to state learning standards
Technology Specialists
Delivery platforms, access, and security considerations
Curriculum Specialist/Administration
Assess the needs for successful implementation of the instructional material at scale
Goed Zoekveld by Bart van de Blezen – CC BY NC SA
Aligned - blog from Student Achievement Partnershttp://achievethecore.org/aligned/
Instructional materials taskforce
Common Core-aligned sample lessons with explanations and supporting resources.
Instructional Materials Alignment Toolkit
Parent and community resources
Professional development resources
http://achievethecore.org
Instructional Materials GuidanceStudent Achievement Partners
Achieve the Core – Aligned Blog
National and state reports, policy briefs, surveys, and white papers that focus on preparing all students for college and careers
EQuIP
• Exemplar lessons and units
• Videos
• eLearning modules
• Peer review panel
Instructional Materials GuidanceAchieve
http://www.achieve.org
Achieve
http://www.edreports.org
Instructional Materials Guidanceedreports.org
edreports
Louisiana Department of Education led an online review of instructional materials to determine the degree of alignment with state content standards
TIER 1 - EXEMPLIFIES QUALITY
TIER2 - APPROACHING QUALITY
TIER 3 - NOT REPRESENTING QUALITY
Curricular Resources and Annotated Reviews
Instructional Materials GuidanceLouisiana Department of Education
Reviewed OER Library
http://digitallearning.k12.wa.us/oer/library/
Instructional Materials GuidanceOSPI OER Review Results
IMET Rubric
EQuIP Rubrics
Achieve OER Rubrics
Instructional Materials GuidanceReview Rubrics
Current OSPI Instructional Material Support Efforts
Promotion of nationally recognized review tools and processes
Collaboration with WSSDA on new instructional materials model policy
Support of cross-district and cross state partnerships
Implementation of state legislated reviews and programs
• Since Time Immemorial: Tribal Sovereignty in Washington State into Social Studies adoption processes
• Bridge to College: ELA and Mathematics Transition Courses
• Sexual Health Education Curriculum Review
• Open Educational Resources Project
OSPI Instructional Materials Guidance
OSPI Instructional Materials Reviews and Supports
Current OSPI Instructional Material Support EffortsBridge to College Transition Courses
Bridge to College Course Information
• English language arts (ELA) and Mathematics
• Forth-year (senior-level) courses designed for students scoring a Level 2 on the Smarter Balanced high school assessment
• Students who earn a “B” or better in the Bridge Course are eligible to enter credit-bearing coursework in any of the State of Washington Community and Technical Colleges
• Jointly developed and coordinated by college faculty and high school teachers
Current OSPI Instructional Material Support EffortsImplementing Tribal Culture and History - 2015 Senate Bill 5433
Honors historic agreements between Washington State and federally recognized Tribes.
Requires incorporation tribal history, sovereignty and governance curriculum of the nearest federally recognized tribe(s) as part of social studies review or adoptions.
Districts shall meet this requirement by using the “Since Time Immemorial” curriculum
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION
“Since Time Immemorial” curriculum may be modified to incorporate regional specific focus or to integrate into existing curriculum materials.
Since Time Immemorial Curriculum
Individual Reports Summary Review Data Reviewer
Comments
Collaboration with Department of Health
Requires review of sexual health education resources
Current OSPI Instructional Material Support EffortsHealthy Youth Act - Sexual Health Education
Sexual Health Curriculum Review
Current OSPI Instructional Material Support EffortsOpen Educational Resources Project
K-12 OER Project
The legislature finds the state's recent adoption of new learning standards provides an opportunity to develop a library of high-quality, openly licensed K-12 courseware that is aligned with these standards.
Why OER…
27Question Mark by Alexander Drachmann – CC BY SA
Look familiar?
Do I have permission to…
Download and print this?
Make adaptations?
Share this with my colleagues?
Repost and distribute this material and any adaptations I make on a wider scale?
Who do I go to for answers to these questions?
What’s protected by copyright?
BOOKS
SCRIBBLES
DOODLES
MOVIES
ARTICLES
MUSIC
BALLETS
PHOTOGRAPHS
SOFTWARE
PLAYS
SCULTPTURE
ARCHITECTURE
PAINTINGS
WEBSITES
Copyright sign by Horla Varian – CC BY
Open licenses help avoid you becoming a copyright detective!
Consulting detective with pipe and magnifying glass by DooFi dedicated to Public Domain
OER clearly define user permissions
OER promote innovative uses of materials…
OER encourage sharing of resources
Sharing by ryancr – CC BY NC
Spectrum of Pencils by designsbykari – CC BY NC
OER are not one specific type of resource
Image and audio resources
Books in the public domain
Video and audio lectures
Interactive simulations
Game-based learning programs
Lesson plans
Textbooks
Online course curricula
Professional learning programs
Photo by nickwheeleroz – CC NC SA
OPEN is not the same as FREE
Any free resources on the internet FREE is not the same as OPEN.
Strictly digital resources OER is a license not a delivery platform.
A replacement for copyrightOpen licenses are just a set of permitted uses that the copyright holder clarifies.
OER are…
Open Educational Resources (OER) reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.
Beyond Definitions by opensource.com – CC BY SA
The 5 Rs of OER
Reuse — copy verbatim
Redistribute — share with others
Revise — adapt and edit
Remix — combine resources
Retain — make, own, & control copies
Letter R by Leo Reynolds – CC BY NC SA
Open Licenses
All Rights Reserved
No Rights Reserved
Traditional Copyright Alone
Public Domain
Some Rights Reserved
Open License
Adapted from Creative Commons in the Classroom – J. Goates
http://www.slideshare.net/Jessicacoates/creative-commons-in-the-classroom-2013#/
cc by
cc by-sa
cc by-nd
cc by-nc
cc by-nc-sa
cc
More accommodating
More restrictive
Creative Commons Licenses
http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/
Rainbow by Pepijn Schmitz – CC BY NC SA
Cost shift from textbooks to other critical areas
Up to date, innovative materials
Collaboration and partnerships
Continual quality improvement and standards alignment
Support for independent and differentiated learning
Solve legal concerns with distribution and adaptation
Benefits of OER
District questions…
42Question Mark by Alexander Drachmann – CC BY SA
What should our vetting process look like?
How well do different OER platforms work when the device is offline (for students who do not have Internet access)?
How do we provide support for staff on how to review, choose and update an OER resource?
So many OER textbook publications are paper intensive but we need to print
to ensure equity of access for our students. How can this be overcome?
What are the implications of using OER with respect to current district policies?
How do different OER delivery platforms work with our existing LMS?
How we can effectively access high quality,up to date curriculum materials?
How do we locate other districts doing similar work to collaborate and share?
If OER are adopted, how often would they need to be reviewed to ensure that they continue to meet the established need? Should OER be considered supplemental?
Rhino by Chris Ingrassia – CC BY
Finding target resources
Evaluating quality and alignment
District policies that don’t recognize OER as an option
Access and security issues
Challenges with OER
Help educators select high quality materials
Provide information for materials adoptions
Identify gaps in Common Core alignment
CC BY NC SAapples by msr http://www.flickr.com/photos/msr/448820990/
Washington OER ProjectOER Review and Awareness
@waOSPI_OER
24 Full-Course Curricula:
Algebra 1, Geometry, Integrated Math 1 & 2, Grades 6-8 Mathematics
Reviewed Resources
MathematicsEnglish Language Arts
60 Units (3-6 wks):
Grades 6-12 ELA
EngageNY Mathematics User Group
OER User GroupsEngageNY Mathematics
OER Commonshttps://www.oercommons.org/
Curriki
http://www.curriki.org/
National Science Digital Libraryhttps://nsdl.oercommons.org/
OER Repositories
engage nyK-12 open curriculum in math and ELAhttps://www.engageny.org/common-core-curriculum
Utah State Office of EducationOpen science and math textbookshttp://www.uen.org/oer/
Georgia Virtual LearningSelection of open online courseshttp://www.gavirtuallearning.org/
OER Development in Other StatesInstructional Materials Development
Library of Congresshttps://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials
PhEThttps://phet.colorado.edu
Student Achievement Partnershttp://achievethecore.org
Organizations with OER
OER Beyond Washington StateK–12 OER Collaborative
@k12oer
K-12 OER Collaborative
OER Beyond Washington State
#GoOpen – US Department of Education
#GoOpen
Department of Education is proposing a new regulation that would require all copyrightable intellectual property created with Department grant funds to have an open license.
Cohort of 10 districts has taken up the #GoOpen challenge to replace at least one textbook with openly licensed educational resources within the next year.
#GoOpen Ambassador Districts currently use openly licensed educational materials and are committed to helping other districts understand how to effectively discover and curate these resources
Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed underhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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http://digitallearning.k12.wa.us/oer
Keep in Touch with the WA OER Project
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