1. Getting Started with i-Ready®
Office of Teaching and Learning
Audience: Teachers of math and/or ELA in grades 3-12

2. Course Outline
City Schools’ Academic Priorities and Assessment Strategy for SY 15-16
i-Ready® Assessment
Why i-Ready®?
City Schools’ Essentials for i-Ready® Implementation
i-Ready® Tutorials and Links

3. Course Outcomes By the end of this course, participants will:
Understand the link between the academic priorities and assessment plan for SY and the use of the i-Ready® assessment
Understand the implementation details that are specific to City Schools in SY 15-16
Review curriculum associates’ i-Ready tutorial and explore additional resources available to support implementation

4. City Schools Academic Priorities and Assessment Strategy
School Year
City Schools Academic Priorities and Assessment Strategy

5. Academic Priorities for SY 15-16
Embracing Equity, Access, and Agency
Student Intellectual Engagement
Racial Equity
(Know your students)
Instructional and Leadership
Frameworks
(Know your pedagogy)
Maryland College and Career Ready & Other State Content Standards
(Know your content)
Monitor, Measure, and Modify Instruction
City Schools’ Assessment Plan allows teachers and principals to monitor, measure and modify instruction and enables equity, access and agency for all students.

6. Assessment for Learning

7. Theory of Action for Assessment
If Baltimore City Public Schools supports a plan for assessment that results in rich data around student growth and provides teachers with pertinent development opportunities related to this plan, then parents and students will be able to partner with school faculty to promote overall growth toward college and career readiness, teachers will have the tools that they need to modify instruction to meet the needs of all students, and district-level teams will be able to evaluate and amend the curricular decisions and systemic development opportunities in order to increase academic outcomes for all students.

8. School Year
i-Ready®

9. What is i-Ready®? Computer-based, including TECR items
Adaptive in order to pinpoint students’ levels
Standards-based
Measures growth across the year for all students regardless of level

10. Why i-Ready®?
Collecting formative data, that is available immediately to teachers, furthers City Schools’ goal of implementing assessment for learning.

11. City Schools’ Implementation Information
Who takes i-Ready®?
All students in grades 3-12, in both math and ELA
When will students be assessed?
There are three administration windows:
Admin 1 – 9/8/15-9/30/15
Admin 2 – 12/1/15-12/23/15
Admin 3 – 3/1/15-3/24/15

12. City Schools’ Implementation Information
Grades 9-12 only:
For SY 15-16, the expectation is that all students are assessed in both math and ELA according to the three administration windows that are laid out for the district – this includes block and trimester scheduled schools.
Students in grades 9-12 who score on or above grade level during Administration 1 of i-Ready® do not have to be assessed during Administration 2.
Admin 1: All students required
Admin 2: Only students below grade level at Admin 1 required
Admin 3: All students required

13. City Schools’ Implementation Information
Teacher Log-in
Teachers will be able to access i-Ready via a link in TSS by following these steps:
Click the TSS Access icon on your desktop (City Schools’ computer) or go to and log-in to TSS (Blackboard).
Click the Teacher Resources tab on the top toolbar.
Click on the i-Ready button.
If you are using a Baltimore City Schools computer and are on the BCPSS network, you will automatically be logged into your i-Ready account.
If you are using a personal device or are off of the network, you will be asked to enter a username and password. Enter your BCPSS username & password as if you were logging into a computer. You will be taken to your i-Ready account.

14. City Schools’ Implementation Information
Student Log-in Option #1 (recommended)
Note: Students must set their own City Schools password for this method to work. For more information on student logins and passwords, visit and select, “Get Student Login Info.”
Students will be able to access i-Ready via the Student Portal on TSS
Click the Student Portal icon on the desktop (City Schools’ computer) or go to and log-in to TSS (Blackboard).
Find the i-Ready button and click on it.
If the student is using a Baltimore City Schools computer and is on the BCPSS network, he/she will automatically be logged into their i-Ready account.
If the student is using a personal device or is off of the network, he/she will be asked to enter their City Schools username (student ID number) and City Schools password.

15. City Schools’ City Schools’ Implementation Information
Student Log-in Option 2: If students have not set their City Schools password, they can log-in by going to and entering their student ID number for both the username and password.

16. City Schools’ Implementation Information
Grades 9-12 Reporting:
Capabilities
Student placement levels overall
Student placement levels by domain
iReady® Tools for Instruction for students performing below a 9th grade level
Individual reporting on skill abilities and next steps for instruction

17. i-Ready® Tutorial and Links
Resource
Link
Getting Started with i-Ready® Tutorial
Click on “Recorded Webinars,” then “Getting Started Part 1”
Technical Best Practices
Training Booklets:
-Training booklets for teacher and school leaders
-Getting Started Guide
-Reports booklet
-Grades 9-12 booklet
-City Schools’ Login Guide
The Associated Resources tab of this course

18. Course Outcomes By the end of this course, participants will:
Understand the link between the academic priorities and assessment plan for SY and the use of the i-Ready® assessment
Understand the implementation details that are specific to City Schools in SY 15-16
Review curriculum associates’ i-Ready tutorial and explore additional resources available to support implementation

19. THANK YOU
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