All Youth Achieving - Core Beliefs 1 Start with students 2 Families are our partners 3 Success in the classroom 4 Diversity is our strength 5 Effective teaching, leadership, and accountability Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent’s Intensive Support & Innovation Center We innovate and transform learning to inspire excellence. Got Systemness? Using a Logic Model to Bridge Formative Assessments and Smarter Balance Assessment Katie McGrath Joseph Espinosa January 28, 2015

Systems for regular formative assessment cycles that bridge to the SBA targets Circle Map

All Youth Achieving - Core Beliefs 1 Start with students 2 Families are our partners 3 Success in the classroom 4 Diversity is our strength 5 Effective teaching, leadership, and accountability Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent’s Intensive Support & Innovation Center We innovate and transform learning to inspire excellence. Grounding: Rick Stiggins on Assessment Leadership

All Youth Achieving - Core Beliefs 1 Start with students 2 Families are our partners 3 Success in the classroom 4 Diversity is our strength 5 Effective teaching, leadership, and accountability Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent’s Intensive Support & Innovation Center We innovate and transform learning to inspire excellence. Balanced Assessment System Classroom Level Assessments Program-Level Assessments Institutional Accountability and Policy Level Assessments

All Youth Achieving - Core Beliefs 1 Start with students 2 Families are our partners 3 Success in the classroom 4 Diversity is our strength 5 Effective teaching, leadership, and accountability Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent’s Intensive Support & Innovation Center We innovate and transform learning to inspire excellence. Balanced Assessment System Classroom Level (Formative at the classroom level) (Not used for grades) Program Level (Formative or Summative at the school Level) (Can be used for grades) Institutional Accountability/Policy Level (Summative) quizzesSBAC Interim AssessmentsSBAC Anecdotal observationsPublish or Teacher created unit assessments NAEP questionsOn-demand writingCELDT tasksPerformance taskPISA Quick-check/exit ticketsCommon Assessment Designed by PLC

All Youth Achieving - Core Beliefs 1 Start with students 2 Families are our partners 3 Success in the classroom 4 Diversity is our strength 5 Effective teaching, leadership, and accountability Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent’s Intensive Support & Innovation Center We innovate and transform learning to inspire excellence. Right Drivers Vs. Wrong Drivers Non-Lead DriversLead Drivers Focus on individual employee qualityFocus on group quality Focus on accountabilityFocus on building capacity Focus on technologyFocus on instruction Fragmented strategiesSystemic strategies

All Youth Achieving - Core Beliefs 1 Start with students 2 Families are our partners 3 Success in the classroom 4 Diversity is our strength 5 Effective teaching, leadership, and accountability Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent’s Intensive Support & Innovation Center We innovate and transform learning to inspire excellence. Improving Systems

All Youth Achieving - Core Beliefs 1 Start with students 2 Families are our partners 3 Success in the classroom 4 Diversity is our strength 5 Effective teaching, leadership, and accountability Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent’s Intensive Support & Innovation Center We innovate and transform learning to inspire excellence.

All Youth Achieving - Core Beliefs 1 Start with students 2 Families are our partners 3 Success in the classroom 4 Diversity is our strength 5 Effective teaching, leadership, and accountability Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent’s Intensive Support & Innovation Center We innovate and transform learning to inspire excellence. Formative Assessment Cycle

All Youth Achieving - Core Beliefs 1 Start with students 2 Families are our partners 3 Success in the classroom 4 Diversity is our strength 5 Effective teaching, leadership, and accountability Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent’s Intensive Support & Innovation Center We innovate and transform learning to inspire excellence.

All Youth Achieving - Core Beliefs 1 Start with students 2 Families are our partners 3 Success in the classroom 4 Diversity is our strength 5 Effective teaching, leadership, and accountability Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent’s Intensive Support & Innovation Center We innovate and transform learning to inspire excellence. Logic Model SBAC Data SBAC Interim Assessments Data Exit Ticket Data

All Youth Achieving - Core Beliefs 1 Start with students 2 Families are our partners 3 Success in the classroom 4 Diversity is our strength 5 Effective teaching, leadership, and accountability Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent’s Intensive Support & Innovation Center We innovate and transform learning to inspire excellence. Planning Evaluation

Writing good outcomes SMART objectives : Specific, measurable, attainable, results-oriented, timed Who/whatChange/desired effect In whatBy when Families participating in the Family Resource Center increasetheir use of community resources and services within one year of joining 4 school boards adoptpolicies to improve student nutrition and physical activity by Dec 2005

All Youth Achieving - Core Beliefs 1 Start with students 2 Families are our partners 3 Success in the classroom 4 Diversity is our strength 5 Effective teaching, leadership, and accountability Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent’s Intensive Support & Innovation Center We innovate and transform learning to inspire excellence. The Final Word aka “Save the Last Word for Me” Step1: Individually write 1 long term outcome(1 year) or short term outcome (9 weeks or 12 weeks) Step 2: In groups of 4 using the Final Word Protocol: 1 person shares their outcome (1 minute) Everybody else in turn responds with comment or feedback (1 minute each) The person that began has “the final word”to respond to what was said, to share what they are thinking now, or to clarify any confusion

All Youth Achieving - Core Beliefs 1 Start with students 2 Families are our partners 3 Success in the classroom 4 Diversity is our strength 5 Effective teaching, leadership, and accountability Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent’s Intensive Support & Innovation Center We innovate and transform learning to inspire excellence. Thank You! “Assessment systems must provide a variety of decision makers with a variety of different kinds of information in different forms at different times to support or to verify student learning.“ - Rick Stiggins and Dan Duke (2008)