Leona Math PLC Welcome! Please sit at the table designated for your school.

Challenge You have the next 5 minutes to correctly identify the meaning of the acronyms and symbols on the paper in front of you. GO!

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Math PLC Goals To create a common understanding and standard for post testing and achievement. To apply new assessment resource tools into our math classes in preparation for the new statewide CCRS assessment.

Math PLC Agenda  Growth Data  Post Test Achievement and Reflection  Assessment Resources  PARCC  Galileo  TenMarks  Updates and Important Dates  Year in Review and Survey

ACHIEVEMENT Criterion-Referenced  % Passing AIMS  Measuring against the Standards GROWTH Norm-Referenced  % Growth in comparison to student’s percentile group  Measuring Students against Students

Galileo 10 Growth & Achievement Data

Growth Reflection Access our google.doc survey at What system trend do you notice in the data across the schools? Give a valid reason for why this might be the case.

What do you notice in the data between course averages? Give a valid reason for why this might be the case.

What do you notice in the Algebra 1 data between course averages? Give a valid reason for why this might be the case.

What do you notice in the Geometry data between course averages? Give a valid reason for why this might be the case.

What do you notice in the Algebra 2 data between course averages? Give a valid reason for why this might be the case.

Achievement Reflection Access our google.doc survey at What do you notice in the data between course averages? Give a valid reason for why this might be the case. Based on your data observations, what recommendations do you have for Leona as a system? What would be appropriate FAME cut scores for a Post Test? Should it differ for each test?

What’s in a Grade?  Final Exams and Final Grade is there a Correlation?  Why does it matter? –AZCCRS Assessment System –Accountability –Validity  What does it look like in your classes?

Personal Achievement Reflection  Set the Final Exam FAME Range – FFB – Approach – Meets – Exceeds  Using your final grades for a single course and that course’s post test results: – Complete the table on your handout so that each student’s final grade is categorized by their Galileo post test score using the ranges given above.

Personal Achievement Reflection  What trends and outliers exist in the correlation between post-test achievement and the final grades give?  What grading/classroom policies need to be changed in order to help align these scores? Access our google.doc survey at

New Assessment Resources  Common Core Alignment  Varied Assessment Methods  Interactive Item Formats

 3-Act Lessons  What do you see?  What questions do you have?  What do you need to know?  101 Questions

 Steve Leinwand- CCSS Math Instruction  Desmos  Learnzillion

 Steve Leinwand  Elaine’s Space Math  Aracely’s Objective Journals  Effective 7-12 Math Support  Remembering How vs. Understanding Why

 Chris Shore’s Math Success - Math Projects Journal  Formative Assessments  Galileo for AIMS Success  Rigor

 PARCC Sample Tests  Galileo PARCC Practice  Ten Marks

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