AIMSweb: Supporting Teams and Teachers MiBLSi Coaches Conference March 2008 Gloria Johnson and Jim Weaver MiBLSi Coaches Conference March 2008 Gloria Johnson and Jim Weaver

Presenters’ Purpose F Setting the stage and facilitating AIMSweb conversations F Building networks of support for coaches F Review website F Mechanics of Using AIMSweb data system F Benchmark F Progress monitoring F Reports F Setting the stage and facilitating AIMSweb conversations F Building networks of support for coaches F Review website F Mechanics of Using AIMSweb data system F Benchmark F Progress monitoring F Reports

Agenda F Benchmark Logistics F How to Access and Interpret Benchmark Assessment Reports F Progress Monitoring Logistics F How to Enable Progress Monitoring F Access and Interpret Progress Monitoring Reports F General Web Management F Teacher Tips F Granting Access to Teachers and Principals F Help! F Talking Points - Interactive Discussion F Benchmark Logistics F How to Access and Interpret Benchmark Assessment Reports F Progress Monitoring Logistics F How to Enable Progress Monitoring F Access and Interpret Progress Monitoring Reports F General Web Management F Teacher Tips F Granting Access to Teachers and Principals F Help! F Talking Points - Interactive Discussion

Benchmark and Strategic Logistics F Work with Training Accounts F Creating or adding students F Editing student information F Viewing score sheets F Determining a student’s status F Work with Training Accounts F Creating or adding students F Editing student information F Viewing score sheets F Determining a student’s status

Logging Into AIMSweb

Log In Comments and Questions F Two people can have the same account open on different computers at the same time F Sometimes AIMSweb says I already have an account open when I don’t F Close your window and open a new one F If that doesn’t work, restart your web browser F Two people can have the same account open on different computers at the same time F Sometimes AIMSweb says I already have an account open when I don’t F Close your window and open a new one F If that doesn’t work, restart your web browser

Customer ID? User Name? Password? F In August and September our schools attended an AIMSweb website training F Principals attended along with personnel they identified as potential data managers F Each middle school has a manager’s account and password F The person with this account has the ability to set up teachers with their own password to view their own students’ data F Each middle school should have an AIMSweb manual F In August and September our schools attended an AIMSweb website training F Principals attended along with personnel they identified as potential data managers F Each middle school has a manager’s account and password F The person with this account has the ability to set up teachers with their own password to view their own students’ data F Each middle school should have an AIMSweb manual

Permissions for Teachers F Regular Teachers F View and edit their roster F Under Manage Schools interface F Yes/No edit benchmark data F Yes/No use strategic monitoring F Progress Monitoring Teachers F Create Progress Monitor Caseloads and assessment schedules transcending class lines F Do not have to have a benchmark class assigned to them F PM Teacher can access and assess students from any grade within the school, regardless of their Benchmark classroom F Regular Teachers F View and edit their roster F Under Manage Schools interface F Yes/No edit benchmark data F Yes/No use strategic monitoring F Progress Monitoring Teachers F Create Progress Monitor Caseloads and assessment schedules transcending class lines F Do not have to have a benchmark class assigned to them F PM Teacher can access and assess students from any grade within the school, regardless of their Benchmark classroom

Permissions for Teachers F Regular and Progress Monitoring Teachers F Access to a Benchmark Classroom (with a roster created under the Manage Schools interface) and ability to create Progress Monitor assessment schedules which transcend class lines F RTI Users F Access to Benchmark Classroom and Progress Monitor interface F Regular and Progress Monitoring Teachers F Access to a Benchmark Classroom (with a roster created under the Manage Schools interface) and ability to create Progress Monitor assessment schedules which transcend class lines F RTI Users F Access to Benchmark Classroom and Progress Monitor interface

Teachers with these permissions can view or edit this data Benchmark Strategic Monitor Progress Monitor Regular TeacherV or V+E Progress Monitor TeacherV+E Regular and Progress Monitor Teacher

Benchmark Reports

District Manager (Superintendent and Principal) Reports

Reports for Classroom Teachers

Options for Targets and Comparisons F Norms F Based on school data F Percentile scores reflect student’s standing in comparison to students in his grade at his school F National Aggregate F Percentile scores reflect student’s standing in comparison to all students in the AIMSweb data base. F This changes each year when the current year data is dumped into the data base in August F Kalamazoo RESA - MiBLSi F Percentile scores reflect student’s standing in comparison to all students in the MiBLSi data base F Norms F Based on school data F Percentile scores reflect student’s standing in comparison to students in his grade at his school F National Aggregate F Percentile scores reflect student’s standing in comparison to all students in the AIMSweb data base. F This changes each year when the current year data is dumped into the data base in August F Kalamazoo RESA - MiBLSi F Percentile scores reflect student’s standing in comparison to all students in the MiBLSi data base

Strategic and Progress Monitoring Reports

Progress Monitoring Logistics F Working with training accounts F Create an assessment schedule F Add students to progress monitoring caseload F Add intervention description F Working with training accounts F Create an assessment schedule F Add students to progress monitoring caseload F Add intervention description

Progress Monitoring Reports: Box and Whiskers

Box & Whiskers Graphs (Box Plots) AIMSweb commonly uses box plots to report data. This chart will help to understand box plot graphs: AIMSweb commonly uses box plots to report data. This chart will help to understand box plot graphs: Consider bell-curve. Box plots are somewhat similar in shape and representation. 75 th percentile Median (50 th percentile) 25 th percentile 90 th percentile 10 th percentile outlier Average range of population included in sample. Below Average Range Above Average Range

How To Access Help F HELP button F AIMS online F Search F AIMSweb software guide F AIMSweb training workbook F AIMSweb tech support F , support option #1 F F HELP button F AIMS online F Search F AIMSweb software guide F AIMSweb training workbook F AIMSweb tech support F , support option #1 F

Talking Points F What’s going well with AIMSweb? F What are the challenges? F For schools F For teachers F For coaches F What are schools doing to address these? F How many schools are progress monitoring? F What can we do to help schools get that job done? F What needs do we have as coaches who support schools using AIMSweb? F What’s going well with AIMSweb? F What are the challenges? F For schools F For teachers F For coaches F What are schools doing to address these? F How many schools are progress monitoring? F What can we do to help schools get that job done? F What needs do we have as coaches who support schools using AIMSweb?