Curriculum Council December 3, 2014

CIU10 Updates

Updates from Kristen Baughman-Gray *GalaxyGalaxy *NearpodNearpod *Math Design CollaborativeMath Design Collaborative *STEM Consortium Engineering byDesign K’Nex Challenge

Updates from Bethann McCain *Statewide Keystones to Literacy Comprehensive Literacy Planning Eduplanet *Text-Dependent AnalysisText-Dependent Analysis DOK Close Reading School-Specific Item Development Interest in Administrator Version?

First in Math *Free one year access available *$6/child after kids solve 1000 problems *For more information, contact and copy

Professional Development CIU Professional Development Offerings Continuing Professional Education Courses SAS Institute – Dec. 7-9 Improving Schools Conference – January Improving Schools Conference PDE Data Summit – March PDE Data Summit

Professional Development Leadership Institute at Toftrees – July 8-10 AP Summer Institute – August 3-6 Spanish Language & Culture (Maria Vazquez-Mauricio) Statistics (Kenneth Pendleton) Physics 1: Algebra-Based (Patricia Zober) US History (Ed Austin) Environmental Science (Tim Anderson)

Professional Development Dec – Data Governance, PATI Jan – Dirty Data, Course/HQT Feb. – PVAAS April – Preparing for Audits, Safe Schools May – Database Primer, Child Accounting Contact Kim Moyer for more information. 14/15 Data Quality Network Topics

PDE/PAIUCC Updates

Educator Effectiveness *Copyright Update for PE and NTPE *Contact Deb Wynn for the permission form

* Media Kit is updated *Graph Icon *Extra Credit for IB (4 or higher) *Science Closing the Gap *Writing  ELA doubled *See the SPP formulas: formula and the formula Media Kit formula and the formula SPPs

FIRST *Fidelity Implementation Review & Support Tool *Expected release = Jan. 15 *Available only for tested grades & subjects *Teachers mark standards & eligible content taught & at what level of fidelity *Related formative assessments are available, as well

PVAAS Reflection Guide = Self-Reflection Tool for Teacher Specific Reporting Reflection Guide Demo Account Frequently Asked Questions

PVAAS Demo. Account

PVAAS Frequently Asked Questions Q1. Why isn’t there a report for a teacher who rostered?

PVAAS Frequently Asked Questions To actually be included in PVAAS Teacher Specific reporting, a student MUST: Have a PSSA or Keystone score from the most recent year NOT be a foreign exchange student NOT be a first-year ELL student NOT be Proficient or Advanced on a PRIOR Keystone exam NOT be claimed at less than 10% instructional responsibility NOT have tested with the PASA (alternate assessment) Must have at least 11 students Must have an “Active N Count” of at least 6 students/6.0 FTE Students

PVAAS Frequently Asked Questions Q2. Why is there no Individual Student Growth Measure?

PVAAS Frequently Asked Questions *Growth is about a GROUP of students NOT an individual student. *Error would be too large for an individual student to know if they made growth or not.

PVAAS Frequently Asked Questions Q3. Why no predicted score Now for SY ?

PVAAS Frequently Asked Questions A student’s predicted score is based on the student’s own testing history and on the average performance of students in the same cohort statewide who have a similar testing history. In other words, for each assessment we analyze with the predictive model, we look at the past testing histories of students across the state who took that assessment in the most recent year. Because the predicted score is based on the performance of other students statewide who took the assessment in the same year, it’s not possible to generate the predicted score prior to the assessment. What would the score tell you that a PVAAS projection/% of likelihood does not?

PVAAS Frequently Asked Questions Q4. Why is there a difference in my School Value-Added vs. Teacher Value-Added Reporting?

PVAAS Frequently Asked Questions 2 Primary Reasons: PVAAS School Reporting uses full academic year/Oct 1 as a requirement for including students PVAAS Teacher Value-added reporting uses % Student + Teacher Enrollment and % Shared Instruction to determine the weighting of each student on each teacher’s PVAAS teacher Specific Reporting

PVAAS Frequently Asked Questions Q5. What is the Composite score?

PVAAS Frequently Asked Questions A combined growth measure across a teacher’s PVAAS reported subjects/grades/courses within SY For SY13-14, we only have one year of reporting so the Composite Score is a combined growth measure across a teacher’s PVAAS reported subjects/grades/courses for SY13-14 only. In future years, the Composite Score will represent a combined growth measure across a teacher’s PVAAS reported subjects/grade/courses across years, up to and including 3 consecutive school years.  1 year Composite  2 Year Composite  3 Year Composite/3 Year Rolling Average

PVAAS Frequently Asked Questions Q6. How is the Composite Score calculated?

PVAAS Frequently Asked Questions To calculate the composite, a simple average is taken of all of the teacher's individual index values for up to three years. Then the average is multiplied by the square root of the number of individual index values that went into the average. This step is a necessary step that accounts for the fact that more data was used to generate the average than was used to generate each individual index, which affects the standard error for the composite.

PVAAS Frequently Asked Questions Q7. Why is there a difference between my Composite vs. my Teacher Value-Added?

PVAAS Frequently Asked Questions The growth color indicators are categories or ranges of indicators of growth. We cannot “average” categories. In other words, green + red ≠ yellow; likewise green + dark blue ≠ light blue. For PVAAS, the assumption is that the achievement level of the teacher's group of students is maintained (green) UNLESS there is enough evidence in the assessment data to say otherwise.

PVAAS Frequently Asked Questions It is all about the amount of evidence in the student assessment results – the assumption is that the achievement level of the teacher's group of students is maintained (green) UNLESS there is enough evidence in the assessment data to say otherwise. The more data available, the more evidence we have to see if the group of students exceeded the growth standard OR not. There is more evidence when all data was combined for a composite score. With data from multiple subjects (or multiple years when that’s available) included in the Composite, there’s more evidence/more data. The composite is not really an “average,” but rather an accumulation of the evidence/data towards meeting, exceeding, or falling short of the standard for PA Academic Growth.

PVAAS Frequently Asked Questions Q8. Why is there a difference between my Teacher Value Added vs. my Diagnostic Reporting?

PVAAS Frequently Asked Questions Diagnostic Reports do NOT factor in the percent of Instructional Responsibility Students are weighted equally Reflect the growth of a group of students who may have had more than one teacher with instructional responsibility in that specific subject/grade or course

Comprehensive Planning *Priority & Focus Schools – Yearly Plan Resubmission to Executive Director *Updates were made to CTC components to align with Ch. 4 *A new web service will handle EDNA imports

Comprehensive Planning *Webcasts added to CP Resource Page *To join the Listserv, go to Click PA Planning Click on Subscribe or Unsubscribe

Comprehensive Planning *Act 71 of 2014 Requires: Youth suicide awareness and child exploitation service professional ed. plans beginning in Related Board Policy *Phase 3’s will have to do an amendment *More details forthcoming

Eligible Content Review *Now fully populated for grades 3-8 ELA and Math plus Algebra I and Literature *Please provide input

Chapter 4 FAQ *Now posted on SAS *Addresses: Keystone Exam Proficiency Opt-Outs Supplemental Instruction Special Ed & ELLs Out-of-State Transfers Waivers

SAS Updates The ELA and math glossaries were added to the Core Standards section of SAS. The English Composition Argumentative Scoring Guideline was posted The English Composition Informative-Explanatory Combined Scoring Guideline was posted Early Warning System simulations were posted New Science VMC resources were added The Science VMC naming convention was altered. Instead of representing single grade levels, they were updated to reflect grade bands. An updated video was added to all of the Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) tasks posted on SAS.

Gifted Education and Accelerated PLC on SAS

Reading Apprenticeship *Invitation for Gr. 6-8 ELA, science, & social studies teachers to participate in 10 days of RA PD *NO COST *A flyer and training calendar are posted on the Curriculum Council page.flyertraining calendar

Real Life, Real Issues: Drugs & Young People *WITF’s multimedia series devoted to preventing youth drug abuse *No cost *Add links to your website

Inspirational Videos /playlist?list=PLVBcK_Ip FVi9s7yDALDX346VSSm WeHGjZ

Transitional Support for Betsy’s Former Roles Educator Effectiveness – Jen Starner SLO – Amy Garvey Keystones/PBA – Kristen Baughman-Gray PA Core – Bethann McCain Comprehensive Planning – Jen Starner PVAAS, SAS, CDT, SPP, eMetric – Bethann McCain AP – Jamie Russler & Dr. Dwyer CPE – Patti Rice & Dr. Dywer

Meeting Schedule Jan. 28, 2015Mar. 25, 2015 Feb. 25, 2015May 6, 2015 January 28 Meeting – Need to re-schedule?? Last day of the Improving Schools Conference Reschedule for January 23 rd ???

Other Needs, Questions, or/and Discussion Items