Kansas Leads the World in the Success of Each Student.

Kansas Education Systems Accreditation (KESA) Systems Approach vs. Buildings Outside Validation Team vs. Assurances Stakeholder Participation 5-Year Cycle vs. Annual 5 R’s Framework vs. Quality Criteria Process with Multiple Results vs. AYP Target

KESA Must: Help the Board move its vision forward. Support school districts where they are. Be rigorous enough to challenge everyone’s thinking. Be unique enough to meet the various needs of our districts (size, demographics). Much like the Board’s vision, needs to be flexible.

Balanced Assessment System Formative Tools Based on learning maps Provide additional information on identified weakness on exact misconception or lack of knowledge Includes instructional resources to build student learning Interim Assessment Optional Teacher choice Diagnostic information Tracks growth Predicts summative Items look like summative Summative Assessment End of year Used as a snapshot ESSA eliminated punitive consequences Information & transparency All based on Kansas Standards and Kansas Goals for Students

Shrinking the Assessment Summative Footprint For purposes of estimating assessment time, the Kansas State Department of Education calculates one session as 45 to 60 minutes. Source: Assessment Fact Sheet, July 2016, KSDE

College and Career Competencies Gaumer Erickson, A.S., Soukup, J.H., & Noonan, P. (2013). College & Career Competency Wheel. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas, Center for Research on Learning. Derived in part from Pellegrino, J.W., & Hilton, M.L. (Eds.). (2012). Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.

Helping students become socially engaged, career equipped, lifelong learners Gaumer Erickson, A.S. & Noonan, P.M. (2012). College and Career Competencies Framework. Lawrence KS: University of Kansas, Center for Research on Learning Mission is focused on supporting educators do what they do better so that students can be become socially engaged, career equipped, lifelong learners

No Project or Initiative will ever lead to Student Success if it is not implemented with a Passionate Group of People.

Today’s students are the future workforce and future leaders of Kansas Today’s students are the future workforce and future leaders of Kansas. Kansans Can achieve anything and, together, Kansans Can lead the world in the success of each student.