Welcome, High School Principals! January 22, 2015 Agenda and Updates on wiki hsprograms.pbworks.com

Brian Pittman Holly Springs High School Tom Dixon Apex High School

Content Updates

Social Studies  Voter Registration Drive  March for the Leadership Academies  March 30-April 6 for everyone else  Please alert Voter Registration Coordinators

Social Studies  Name change for Civics & Economics to “American History: The Founding Principles, Civics & Economics”  Effective  Does not effect sequencing of courses  Can still take AP US History and IB History of Americas as stand-alone courses

Advanced Placement  AP Audit Information  AP Survey Athens Green Hope Middle Creek Millbrook Wakefield COMPLETECOMPLETE

English  English II Benchmarks  Performance Tasks  Last Semester– Try it and Report  This Semester– Normed across district  Implementation Guide  Score Reports for Part 1 Reading and Part 2 Writing in April  All materials in Content Updates and on English wiki

Cathy Moore and Ruth Steidinger Managerial Leadership

11:30-1:00 Lunch

21 st Century Assessment Strategic Leadership

Balanced Assessment?

Assessment Alignment utube.com/watc h?v=zamE9cvC6 u0#t=28

“4C” Measurement: The Future is Now College and Work Readiness Assessment (CWRA+) – Online assessment includes a performance task and 25 selected- response items – 5 WCPSS high schools in Spring 2015 – Analytic reasoning, problem solving, and written communication – Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) – Administered to 15-year-olds in 70 countries – Math, Science, Reading, and general cross-curricular competencies – 5 WCPSS high schools in 2014; 5 more in Spring 2015 –

K-12 Aligned Literacy Instructional Leadership

Writing Focus Group Sherri Miller, Sherri Miller, K-12 Director Sara Overby, Sara Overby, HS ELA Melissa Hurst, Melissa Hurst, MS ELA Barbara Sorensen, Barbara Sorensen, ES ELA Sharon Collins, Sharon Collins, ES ELA Walter Harris, Walter Harris, ES ELA Shanta Lightfoot, Shanta Lightfoot, MS ELA

The Heart of Writing

Argument Training Day 1 Day 2– March 2, 2015 CR Send the same team for Day 2. HS Programs pays for subs.

Day 4—Writing in the Content Areas Day 5—Performance Tasks/Integrated Units

Designing Aligned K-12 Writing Rubrics 24 Teachers Across District Across Grades K -12 Across Content Areas David Balmer, SocSt, Heritage Tammy King, SocSt, Holly Springs Kristen Larsen, SocSt, Sanderson Laura Stiles, Sci, Wakefield Molly Bostic, Sci, Heritage Mary Cate Larocca, ELA, Southeast Raleigh Jenni Greene, ELA, Holly Springs Lauren Genesky, ELA, Millbrook Carrie Horton, ELA, Vernon Malone

Argument Informative Narrative Aligned Rubrics for Quality K through 12 

Cross-Curricular Implementation

2. Look across: one skill criterion What do you notice about growth within and across grade spans? How might these rubrics support a call to rigor in content-area learning? 1.Look down What do you notice about skills and criteria? How might these fit all content areas? Apply It: Apply It: Choose a skill criterion. Read the student response. What subskill feedback would you give this student? How can the quality continuum be used to support qualitative student growth, rather than quantitative grades? Table Talk

Bright Ideas We Need Some Bright Ideas! Google Response Form One per group What ideas do you have for implementation in a high-school culture and climate?

Teacher Professional Development Fidelity of Cross-Curricular Implementation

Interactive Digital Rubrics K-12 Digital Portfolios

Access to Rigor Instructional Leadership

Equity Leadership Mindset Start with “Why”See InequitiesUnderstand InequitiesInterrupt Inequities

AP Potential—Online (access code required) Right to Rigor—Via on January 8 Five-Year Report—Online (access code required) Integrated Report—Via on January 8 Quickr Roster Reports:

AP Potential Report

Right to Rigor Overview

Right to Rigor: Student & Course Gaps

Right To Rigor Reports

Right to Rigor Reports

Sample Five-Year Report

Integrated Report…Page 20

Quickr Roster See link in agenda to ACT document: “Using PLAN to Identify Student Readiness for Rigorous Courses in High School”

Identifying Barriers

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Debrief  Barriers added by your group?  Ways to interrupt barriers?  Areas of focus?  Request from HS Team: ask department chairs of core academic areas how their department approaches the recommendation process

Graduation Managerial Leadership