English I On- Level and Pre-AP/GT PLC Friday, October 17 th 2014

Goals and Outcomes  Review and discuss High School Distinction Reports focusing on how these results impact our classrooms, our campus, and our district. What are some next steps that we can create for ourselves in order to help us grow in each of these areas?  Review and discuss the data from the first English I Pre-AP and On- Level Curriculum-Based Assessment.  Calibration of English I Expository Essays

Celebrations and Challenges!!!  Share with the group one celebration/ success story you’ve experienced since the last time we met, and one challenge you’ve been experiencing.

High School Distinction Reports  4 Indexes were scored:  Attendance  Participation/ Enrollment in AP Courses  Performance in AP Courses  EOC/ STAAR scores from Eng. I and Eng. II  Each campus was rated against their own group of 40 campuses that were most comparable to their population/ demographics, etc… (Byron’s 40 schools were different than NHS’s 40 schools and these were both different than Steele’s 40 schools.)  Each campus was given a Quartile Score within each of the 4 indexes, with Q1 being the highest and Q4 being at the bottom.

 Step 1a. Take a few minutes to look at this report by yourself. Feel free to make notes on it about what you notice.  Step 1b. Share your findings with a partner.  Step 1c. Be ready to share these finding out with the large group.  Step 2a. Discuss in your small groups… In what ways have we been successful? In what ways can we work toward helping to make improvements?  Step 2b. Be ready to share these ideas out with the big group.  Step 3. When you are finished, feel free to take a look at the High School Distinction Reports. What do you notice, here? High School Distinction Reports

Curriculum- Based Assessment #1  Take a look at your data/ results from your 1 st Curriculum-Based Assessment.  What do you notice?  Strengths?  Areas of need?  How will the results of this first CBA help guide your future instruction?  In looking closely at this data, what would be a few of our next steps?

Reminders/ Updates from TEA  Field Test Prompts will now be removed from 7 th gr. Writing and from the English I and English II EOC Exams for the next 3 years!  Every 3 years, the students will have field test prompts at each of these grade levels so that TEA can still keep a current bank of prompts to use for future state assessments.  Why did the state decide to stay with Phase 1 for another year?  Every time we change to a new phase, scores tend to drop about 20%. With the amount of struggling readers and writers the state has had, we just couldn’t afford to drop another 20% this year. We need to take it slow and give these struggling readers and writers a little more time.

Calibration of Essays: A Quick Review of the Narrative Rubric…  What do you notice about the 4 column? Highlight some key words/ phrases.  Look at the verbiage/ description of the 2’s and 3’s. With a different colored highlighter, highlight some key phrases/ words.  What changes do you notice? Discuss at your tables.

English I Expository Statewide Distributions (First-time Testers) Expository Summed Scores 2014 Expository Summed Scores 1/1 = 218%1/1 = 27% 1/2 = 318%1/2 = 38% 2/2 = 435%2/2 = 439% 2/3 = 514%2/3 = 521% 3/3 = 69%3/3 = 618% 3/4 = 73%3/4 = 74% 4/4 = 81%4/4 = 81%

English II Persuasive Statewide Distributions (First-time Testers) Persuasive Summed Scores 2014 Persuasive Summed Scores 1/1 = 24%1/1 = 27% 1/2 = 36%1/2 = 39% 2/2 = 434%2/2 = 432% 2/3 = 523%2/3 = 521% 3/3 = 624%3/3 = 620% 3/4 = 76%3/4 = 76% 4/4 = 82%4/4 = 83%

Scoring your own Expository Essays - The rest of the afternoon will be spent scoring your English I Expository Essays - If you feel you come across a Score Point 4 (8), let’s discuss it since we may want to use it as a district exemplar that we can write a short commentary over it stating how it meets the standards of a Score Point 4 (8), and place it on our Eng. I On-Level and Pre-AP Curriculum Netschool pages.

Thank you! Many thanks for your time and participation today! We already have an amazing start to the year! It was great seeing you all this afternoon! Enjoy the rest of your week!