Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org GKIDS Pre-Administration Workshop Georgia Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills

Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org 2 Agenda Purpose Assessment Summary Updates Assigning/verifying schools and users District responsibilities School coordinator responsibilities Teacher responsibilities Close-Out Information

Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org 3 GKIDS: Purpose Provides teachers with ongoing diagnostic information about kindergarten students’ developing skills in language arts, math, science, social studies, personal/social development, approaches to learning and motor skills. Provides a summary of individual student performance at the end of the kindergarten school year as an indicator of first grade readiness.

Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org 4 What is Assessed? Academic Content Areas ELA Math Social Studies (optional) Science (optional) Non-Academic Dimensions of Learning Personal/Social Development Approaches to Learning Motor Skills (optional)

Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org 5 Assessing the Academic Standards using Performance Levels ELA, Math, Social Studies, and Science standards will be assessed using 2-5 performance levels for each element. The number of performance levels was determined by the GKIDS Advisory Committee and is based on the range of student performance that can be observed for each element. Performance Levels Not Yet Demonstrated Emerging Progressing Meets the Standard Exceeds the Standard

Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org 6 Assessing the Non-Academic Standards using Performance Levels Personal/Social Development, Approaches to Learning, and Motor Skills will be assessed using 3 performance levels for each element. The number of performance levels was determined by the GKIDS Advisory Committee and is based on the range of student performance that can be observed for each element. Performance Levels Not Yet Demonstrated Emerging Consistently Demonstrating

Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Updates Revised descriptions of some ELA and Math standards to match Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE) Revisions to some suggested activities Kindergarten Entry Profile (KEP) Pilot

Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org New Schools for If your system has a new school for the school year, please provide the school name and school code to GCA so that we can add the school to the GKIDS database. Please contact GCA at (888) to provide this information. New schools need to be added to the database before the pre-populated school lists are uploaded in September. If a new school is not added to the database prior to September, the pre-population feature will not be available for that school. Please notify GCA of any new schools as soon as possible. 8

Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org 9 Login and Passwords All system coordinator, school coordinator and teacher information in the website from the school year will remain intact unless requested otherwise by systems. School Coordinators should assign login names and passwords to new teachers at the beginning of the school year. System Coordinators should assign login names and passwords to new school coordinators at the beginning of the school year. If you are a new system test coordinator, please contact GCA or DOE for assistance. Contact GCA if you have moved to a new school/system from last year.

Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org 10 System Test Coordinator Responsibilities Your main role is to manage user accounts for school test coordinators at each school in your system that has Kindergarten teachers. During the school year, you will be able to view system, school and class reports and search for reports on individual students. Login names and passwords from are still valid unless requested otherwise by systems. New system coordinators should contact GCA or DOE to receive a login and password. System Test Coordinators are responsible for making certain that schools in the system meet the reporting deadlines.

Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org District Responsibilities Districts should decide whether their teachers will manually add students at the beginning of the year or wait until September 22 to select students from the pre-populated school list. If desired, this decision can be made at the school level. However, all teachers in a school should use the same method for entering students. If desired, it is possible for some schools in a district to manually add students beginning August 3, while other schools in the same district wait until September 22 to use the pre-population feature. Students that are entered into GKIDS manually by teachers will not appear on the pre-populated school lists when they become available on September

Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org 12 School Test Coordinator Responsibilities Your main role is to manage user accounts for the teachers at your school. Login names and passwords from are still valid unless requested otherwise by systems. During the school year, you will be able to view school and class reports and search for reports on individual students. Be prepared to answer questions for the school about navigating the GKIDS Data Entry and Reporting website. School Test Coordinators are responsible for making certain that teachers meet the reporting deadlines.

Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org 13 Teacher Responsibilities Add your students to the database. Manually add students (available when the site went online on August 3), or Select Students from School List (available on September 22, after student data from pre-ID Cycle 1 is uploaded) Enter student data in the required domains. English Language Arts, Math, Approaches to Learning, and Personal/Social Development Remove students from your class list if they move to a new school. Generate student and class reports throughout the year as needed.

Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Two Options for Adding Students to the GKIDS Database 1. Manually Adding Students Available when the GKIDS website went online on August 3. Same procedures as previous years. 2. Selecting Students from a Pre-populated School List Available September 22, after Pre-ID Cycle I. Students entered manually prior to September 22 will not appear on the school lists. 14

Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org 15 Selecting Students from Pre-Populated School List (not available until September 22, 2015) Select option 3, “Prepopulation Search”

Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Select Students from School List 16 Click the boxes to the left of the student names for all of your students. Then click “submit” at the bottom of the page

Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Adding New Students Manually (available when the site went online August 3, 2015) 17 Select “Add New Student”

Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org What if one of my students is not on the school list? Any student who was entered manually prior to September 22 will not appear on the pre-populated school list. If one of your students is not on the school list, go to “manage students” and select option 2, “student search” to see if the student has already been entered. If the student is not already in the GKIDS database, you can manually enter the student. 18

Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org 19 Enter Demographic Information

Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Releasing Students & Editing Student Information Use the “Remove from Roster” link to release a student who transfers out of your class. This does not delete the student from the GKIDS database; it simply takes the student off your class list. The new student’s new teacher can acquire the student ONLY after he/she is released. If you enter a student’s information incorrectly when adding a new student, DO NOT remove the student from your roster Click on “EDIT PROFILE” to the right of the student’s name to correct student information. 20

Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Use Student Search to Acquire Students If a student has transferred to your class, use the “STUDENT SEARCH” option to search for and acquire the student. Go to Manage Students Select option # 2 – Student Search Enter the Student’s Name or GTID# and click search. Click the “acquire link” that appears to the right of the name. If there is no link, then the student hasn’t been released and you need to contact the school to ask them to release the student. DO NOT use the “ADD NEW STUDENT” function to acquire a transfer student. Once a student is in the database, you cannot add him/her again as a new student. the error message “stunum taken,” means that the GTID# has already been entered in the database. 21

Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Acquire a Student 22 Go to “Manage Students” Click on option # 2 – Student Search

Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Acquire a Student 23

Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org 24 Format and Activity Options Activities Options Teacher may assess by observing student performance during the course of regular classroom instruction or by an assessment activity of the teacher’s choice.during the course of regular classroom instruction Sample activities have been developed for each GPS standard by the advisory committee Activities are included in the GKIDS Administration Manual

Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org 25 Home Page

Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org 26 Entering Assessment Data: Select Standard/Skill

Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Entering Assessment Data: Assign Ratings 27

Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Entering Assessment Data : Set All Function 28

Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org GKIDS Key Dates 29

Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org 30 GKIDS Resources GKIDS Administration Manual Quick Reference Guide for Parent Brochure Sample Baseline Assessment These resources are posted in the “Resource Box” on the GKIDS page of the GaDOE website. Go to Assessment/Assessment/Pages/default.aspx and click on “Georgia Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills (GKIDS)” at the bottom of the page. Assessment/Assessment/Pages/default.aspx For instructional support, you may browse the GaDOE frameworks at:

Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org 31 GKIDS Contacts Bobbie Bable Georgia Department of Education Assessment and Accountability (404) Georgia Center for Assessment (888)

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