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Kindergarten through Third Grade Assessment Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge Grant North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Office of Early Learning September 2013

Welcome & Introductions

Jami Graham Leslie Simmons Catherine WoodallDarlene Germano Cynthia Dewey Karen Lounsbury Nancy Costello Erika Beattie

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Today’s Purpose To share a vision of a state-wide formative assessment process. To define formative assessment. To provide updates and information about the K-3 assessment project.

Meeting the needs of all children Each child is honored, respected, and empowered to achieve success in school and life. ~Office of Early Learning, NCDPI

Race to the Top- Early Learning Challenge Grant NC State Law “Read to Achieve”

K-3 Formative Assessment Vision

From Vision to Reality

K-3 Assessment Vision

According to the Experts Formative Assessment is… all those activities undertaken by teachers, and by their students in assessing themselves, which provide information to be used as feedback to modify the teaching and learning activities in which they are engaged. Such assessment becomes ‘formative assessment’ when the evidence is actually used to adapt the teaching work to meet the needs. Black and William, 1998; summarized in 2001

According to the Experts Formative assessment practice operates as a feedback loop in which both teachers and students can play active, distinctive, yet complementary roles in enabling learning by consistently working to build and consolidate student understanding and skills during the course of a lesson. Margaret Heritage, Spring Formative assessment: An enabler of learning. Better: Evidence-based Education.

Formative Assessment A process used by teachers and students during instruction that provides feedback to adjust ongoing teaching and learning to help students improve their achievement of intended instructional outcomes. NC Department of Public Instruction CCSSO 2006

5 Domains of Learning and Development

Formative Assessment

Universal Design Principles

What is essential? How do we measure this? How do we implement for sustainability?

Stakeholders Teachers Community members Students Parents Organizations NC Stakeholders

Supporting Teachers Discovery Education's Clip Art Gallery created by Mark A. Hicks, illustrator

K-3 Formative Assessment PBIS Response to Intervention DPI Race to the Top Read to Achieve Reading 3D Home Base

Stakeholder Opportunities Webinars Regional Focus Groups: teachers PreK-3 Surveys: PreK-3 teachers Information sessions –Institutes of Higher Education: Deans –Principal Council Meetings Statewide Conferences –NCaeyc Conference –NCAEE Conference –Exceptional Children’s Conference

Our Proposed Timeline TaskTimeline K-3 Assessment Design & DevelopmentSpring 2013 – Summer 2014 Initial ImplementationFall 2014 – Spring 2015 Statewide ImplementationSummer 2015 – ongoing

NCDPI K-3 Assessment Wiki