1. * Mid Year Update

2. * Aiken Elementary - Gold * Chukker Creek Elementary - Gold * Hammond Hill Elementary - Gold * J. D. Lever Elementary - Gold * Millbrook Elementary - Gold * North Augusta Elementary - Gold * Belvedere Elementary - Silver * Clearwater Elementary - Silver * Cyril B. Busbee Elementary - Silver * Gloverville Elementary - Silver * Greendale Elementary - Silver * M. B. Kennedy Middle - Silver * North Augusta Middle - Silver * Oakwood-Windsor Elementary - Silver

3. * Aiken Elementary - Silver * Clearwater Elementary - Silver * Cyril B Busbee Elementary - Silver * Hammond Hill Elementary - Silver * J. D. Lever Elementary - Silver * M. B. Kennedy Middle - Silver * North Augusta Elementary - Silver

4. MAP

5. * NWEA/Northwest Evaluation Association is a non- profit organization with regional offices in Portland, Indianapolis, and Houston. www.nwea.orgwww.nwea.org * Aiken County currently tests 1 st -9 th graders in math, reading and language usage during fall, winter and spring testing windows. * Tests are adaptive and correlated to SC standards. Current normative data is also available for all testing areas and all testing windows.

6. * Results are available 24 hours after tests are uploaded to NWEA. * Test results are reported in overall RIT scores (Rausch Units) for each testing area.

7. * Results are also reported in 10-point RIT ranges for goal strand areas * A Class by RIT Report provides a direct link to a SC standards-based DesCartes. * The DesCartes, or learning continuum, outlines the instructional level for students in a given goal strand RIT range.

8. * MAP testing results can be used to guide differentiated instruction (at all levels). * MAP testing results are stored in TestView, our data management system, allowing results to be easily compared and analyzed.

9. * Through Testview, we are able to create distribution reports to help us “ see ” strengths and weaknesses in language, reading, and math by school, grade level, and teacher.Testview

10. Grade LevelELA PercentileELA RIT National RIT Mean Grade 01 Grade 02 46.28185.91 188 Grade 03 52.04198.14 198 Grade 04 51.17205.16 204 Grade 05 55.09211.92 210 Grade 06 51.93214.50 214 Grade 07 53.06217.95 217 Grade 08 56.80221.97 219 Grade 09 45.20217.42 220

11. Grade LevelReading PercentileReading RIT National RIT Mean Grade 01 60.42170.75 167 Grade 02 45.97183.17 186 Grade 03 50.44195.65 196 Grade 04 49.17203.09 203 Grade 05 53.14210.52 209 Grade 06 48.34212.63 213 Grade 07 49.75216.67 217 Grade 08 52.74221.59 220 Grade 09 37.82215.65 221

12. Grade LevelMath PercentileMath RIT National RIT Mean Grade 01 52.86170.91 169 Grade 02 44.76183.87 186 Grade 03 48.67196.81 198 Grade 04 48.40206.49 207 Grade 05 51.08216.27 216 Grade 06 49.30220.68 221 Grade 07 53.78228.20 226 Grade 08 54.67233.67 230 Grade 09 45.58230.01 232

13. * Teachers can access this same type of information for their classes as well, but the greatest source of information for them is contained in the DesCartes.DesCartes

15. Instructional Strategies – Renee Mack

16. *Improvement rating from At-Risk to Excellent in the last two years. *Palmetto Gold Award for General Performance and Silver Award for closing the Achievement Gap in 2009-2010 *Part of initial roll out of the literacy model

17. * Making Middle Grades Work Technical Assistance Visits – More to come

18. *Monitoring of graduation rate through 9 th grade pass/fail rates each nine weeks. *School intervention teams

19. 9 th Grade Failure Rates

20. * When are they coming?