Assessment for Learning and Development Principal Council Meeting North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Office of Early Learning February 2014

Welcome & Introductions

Race to the Top- Early Learning Challenge Grant NC State Law “Read to Achieve ”

K-3 Formative Assessment Vision Gathering your input for the Assessment Design Team and Implementation Design Team Future Opportunities

Present understanding Using the process of formative assessment Using assessment data formatively

According to the Experts Formative Assessment is… all those activities undertaken by teachers, and by their students in assessing themselves, which provide information to be used as feedback to modify the teaching and learning activities in which they are engaged. Such assessment becomes ‘formative assessment’ when the evidence is actually used to adapt the teaching work to meet the needs. Black and William, 1998; summarized in 2001

According to the Experts Formative assessment practice operates as a feedback loop in which both teachers and students can play active, distinctive, yet complementary roles in enabling learning by consistently working to build and consolidate student understanding and skills during the course of a lesson. Margaret Heritage, Spring Formative assessment: An enabler of learning. Better: Evidence-based Education.

Formative Assessment A process used by teachers and students during instruction that provides feedback to adjust ongoing teaching and learning to help students improve their achievement of intended instructional outcomes. NC Department of Public Instruction CCSSO 2006

What does an effective teacher do?

Formative Assessment Picture from Northwest Evaluations Association

Classroom/School culture shift? Minor or No ShiftHUGE Shift

K-3 Formative Assessment Vision

Approaches to Learning Cognitive Development Language Development & Communication Health & Physical Development Emotional & Social Development 5 Domains of Learning and Development

K-3 Formative Assessment Vision Third Grade Second Grade First Grade Kindergarten KEA

Race to the Top- Early Learning Challenge Grant NC State Law “Read to Achieve ”

What is essential? How do we measure this? How do we implement for sustainability? What is working? What could be?

Our Proposed Timeline TaskTimeline K-3 Assessment Design & DevelopmentSpring 2013 – Summer 2014 Initial ImplementationFall 2014 – Spring 2015 Statewide ImplementationSummer 2015 – ongoing

Future Stakeholders Opportunities Teacher Advisory Team Focus Group Reviewers Surveys Conference Sessions Webinars

NCDPI K-3 Assessment Wiki

Office of Early Learning Listserv

What Questions Do You Have?

Working Together