What is RICAS?

Shedding Some Light on RICAS

RICAS Raises the bar on RI education

RICAS ASSESSES SCHOOLS

RICAS ASSESSES STANDARDS LEARNING

FOR COMMON LEARNING OVER THE GRADES, BUILD FROM GRADE TO GRADE

ADVANCED STUDENTS AREN’T HURT

ADVANCED STUDENTS Are Revealed Via RICAS

COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS NATIONAL STANDARDS ARE TESTED INTRODUCED 201O

STANDARDS LEARNING INITATED BY PRESIDENT REAGAN

1989 STATE GOVERNORS’ CONFERENCE AS RESPONSE TO JAPAN’S ECONOMIC GROWTH

BROWN’S TED SIZER All Students Learn The Same Under- standings

THE TEST IS LEVERAGE TO HELP ALL KIDS LEARN

BROWN’S GRANT WIGGINS: TEACH FOR THE TEST AP, SAT, GRE, BAR EXAM BACKWARDS PLANNING

BROWN’S GRANT WIGGINS 1980’s What are Essential Learnings

NOT A “HIGH STAKES, STANDARDIZED, BUBBLE TEST”

THE TEST IS A CRITERION- REFERENCE TEST

NCLB, 2002 FREAKED Mass. teachers out

GREATEST SCHOOL GAINS UNDER NCLB

RI HAD “NECAP” test FOR MANY MANY YEARS START OF SCHOOL YEAR POOR TEST DISMISSED BY MANY MCAS started 1998

RI HAD “NECAP” TIL 2016 RELATIVELY WEAK STATE AND DISTRICT AND SCHOOL LEADERSHIP IN RI FOR NECAP CAN WE DO BETTER? MCAS too was hated

Mass. folks resisted MCAS

Mass. LEADERSHIP PUSHED

Mass.TOOK SLOW, GRADUAL EASY STEPS TO HIGH LEVELS

RICAS HIT RI SCHOOLS LIKE A TON OF BRICKS WITH A HARD TEST

“IF RI WERE A MA DISTRICT IT WOULD BE IN THE BOTTOM”

RICAS REQUIRES COLLABORATION

WOULD STANDARDS LEARNING HAPPEN WITHOUT THE TEST?

THE STANDARDS ARE EXCELLENT LEARNING GUIDES

RICAS Is About TEXT EVIDENCE, INFERENCE Test Features RICAS Is About TEXT EVIDENCE, INFERENCE

Test Features Where’s the EVIDENCE

CLASSROOM PRACTICE SCAFFOLD AS NEEDED

Reading Independently Develops Comprehension, Vocabulary, Fluency CLASSROOM PRACTICE Reading Independently Develops Comprehension, Vocabulary, Fluency

CLASSROOM LIBRARIES FOR INDEPENDENT READING

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Great Standards Teaching Results in Great Learning

Can RI Duplicate what Mass. has done? Academic Achievement