1. DERO Technical Services
Changing Standards???
Bob Cornacchioli
DERO Technical Services
CEO

2. Agenda/Participants will be engaged in:
Changing Standards
Managing Standard for
Where did DDE Mass Modify GO?
Constraints and “Givens” in PowerSchool
Best Practices- Changes are Coming!
Looking at PTG and PTP
Report Card options
Changes due to PS 9/10/11
Standard Search Tool Free
for more resources

3. Alpha/Beta Team for and PTP
CEO - DERO Technical Services (2007) Evangelist/Process Lead- Level Data Marketing/ - ParkBench Software
Trainer
Director of Technology and Media Services Shrewsbury Public Schools (16 yrs) PowerSchool Administrator (6 yrs)
Alpha/Beta Team for and PTP
Bob Cornacchioli

4. Husband, Father and Grampa
On Mother’s Day we found out about #4 - Dec
Family First – Balance between work & living!!

5. WHY IS YOUR DISTRICT CHANGING?
Were you involved in the initial selection process?
How long had you been using your current standards?
What does your new process look like?
More or less standard
Change Grade Scales?
What document/author is guiding your district
Special Needs, GIFTED, ELL Students
Start Date- Next year?
Import now or after EOY?
Hybrid Anyone?
Grade Level Changes?

6. CURRICULUM/ADMIN & TECHNICAL
DRAW A LINE IN THE SAND
Collaborate and learn the constraints

7. AUSTIN’S BUTTERFLY
Featuring Ron Berger from Expeditionary Learning. Produced by David Grant (

8. Before the “selection process”
Review curriculum alignment across all subjects and grade levels – which subjects haven’t been reviewed, recent purchases, expected new purchases.
Gather your resources –International Baccalaureate, Common Core, State Standards, Existing Standards, District Alike Standards**.
Create new forms of assessments - the better assessments align with your curriculum and allow many of your standards to associated to them and/or assignments.
How much time does this take?? – My recommendation is 24 to 6 months!
Skipping these steps will result in at best - continuous revisions and most often FAILURE!

9. Selecting Your NEW Standards
Grade level teacher Team* - Pilot concerns
Set guidelines - # of standards per content area per grade level including Life Skills (or)
Different Student Groups _ GIFTED, Special Education, ELL
Benchmark Dates – 1st Draft per content area
Compare Standards # by Content by Grade Level
SET/KEEP* FINAL Date– No more changes after…
PreK K 1 2 3 4 5
ELA 15 12 18 10 17 23 32 MA 6 13 14
SCI

10. Standard Resources

11. The issues with “AS IS” standards
8.EE.6: Use similar triangles to explain why the slope m is the same between any two distinct points on a non-vertical line in the coordinate plane; derive the equation y = mx for a line through the origin and the equation y = mx + b for a line
What does this mean? To Teachers/ To Parents
Can it be shortened so it doesn’t get truncated?
Some IB/CC/State Standards are actually multiple concepts
which are expected to assessed with one grade
Why not during the “selection process” the teacher committees also
shorten them and make them understandable to their audience!

12. O U S
Wisconsin Parent...
Now that I know what standard my daughter is struggling with, I hope I can understand what the standard means?

13. Change requires continual checking of your stakeholders temperature
Change requires continual checking of your stakeholders temperature. HAS THIS HAPPENED YET?
Parents
Teachers
Tech Team

14. Read anything by Ken O’Connor aka The Grade Doctor
Far more important than the keystroke of a grade is how the district has trained teachers in the proper techniques in determining that grade. What Ken and others are saying about student achievement is mission critical. The gradebook (PTG and PTP) has been designed with these principles.

15. your performance indicators? Everyone on the Same Page
Are you changing
your performance indicators?
Everyone on the Same Page

16. Conversion and Grade Scales
PS8 conversion scales could be left blank on the import standards file. No dropdowns in Score Inspector
PS9 required a conversion scales. DO NOT GRADE with no values - no dropdowns in Score Inspector
PS10 Conversion Scales are no longer with PTP, Grade Scales are created with the same name as your conversion scales. Migration does this automatically. Grade Scales MUST have one value with 0% define or you will get an error
but check all Grade Scales*
PTG
and/or
PTP
PLEASE NOTE: IF STANDARDS ARE GOING TO BE TIED TO ASSIGNMENTS
AND ASSIGNMENT SCORES ARE GOING TO POPULATE
STANDARD SCORES – USE NUMERIC GRADE SCALES

17. Shift from Alpha Numeric to Numeric Grade Scales
NUMERIC SCALE – DOES REAL MATH with NUMERIC VALUES
ALPHA SCALE – USE GRADE VALUES FOR IT’S MATH
4,4,3 = ?
ALPHA 100,100/89 = 289/3 =96 or a 4
NUMERIC 4,4,3 = 11/3 =3.6 or a 3+

18. NUMERIC SCALES – RANGE & INCLUDE

19. AUTO GENERATE THE TABLE

20. THE UNIQUE IDENTIFIERS!!
WHAT
DO YOU MEAN IF
I CHANGE STANDARDS
DURING THE YEAR I CAN’T
RE-USE
THE UNIQUE IDENTIFIERS!!
DO I HAVE TO CHANGE
ALL MY REPORT
CARDS?

21. Standards have to be managed
YEAR TO YEAR/EOY or...
MUST SET UP AT THE DISTRICT LEVEL
YOU MUST THEN BE IN
CREATE STANDARDS LIST for YearID 27
√ 24,012 standards were created for
Create Next Year’s List of Standards Prior to End-of-Year
COPIES ALL STANDARDS – ACTIVE AND INACTIVE FROM ALL PREVIOUS YEARS
EOY PROCESS WILL NOT COPY OVER STANDARDS IF YOU DO THIS
IF YOU CHANGE STANDARDS AFTER CREATING….????

22. What to do and WHEN? OLD STANDARDS NEED TO BE RETIRED- WHEN:
After EOY – Remove Course Association/Allow to 0/IsActive to 0
Identifiers don’t have to be unique between years, within the same year – IDENTIFIERS MUST BE UNIQUE!
CAN I CREATE NEW STANDARDS FOR NEXT YEAR AND IMPORT THEM BEFORE THE END OF YEAR: YES
In current year, different identifiers and NO COURSE ASSOCIATION
If you set up the following year at the district level, you can import them with the same identifiers and a different yearid

23. Consider a user friendly schema for standard identifiers
Removing a,b,c will save time- import template and report cards

24. Character Count for Standards

25. # of Reporting Periods dictates the # of characters (BobC’s recommendations - on printed report cards) 75 70 65

26. Standard Grade Options

27. Thoughts on Comments Holistic Narrative for HR Teacher
Content Comments (All or Core?)
Comment Bank – Have you review that list??
How do you set the correct length?
When you create an entry box on your report card use the same sized box for all grades all subjects. Content specific comments are NORMALLY shorter than a holistic narrative

28. Select - √ Standards DISTRICT LIST

29. FILTERS and EDIT ALL FILTERED RECORDS
Primary Courses is not list as it’s a stand alone above
List Parent is not a choice – WHY????

30. DDA LIKE CHANGE OPTIONS –1@TIME

31. Standard Changes & Static Report Card Implications
PS8 to PS8 or PS9 – If new identifiers are used, you many need to tweak the report card. Do you teachers want them to printed in a particular order?
PS9 to PS9 – Within the same year, wordsmithing a standard may result in NO CHANGES. For the SOY, if the # of identifiers didn’t change – may result in NO CHANGES (Create Standards List)
PS10/PTP – ReportWorks doesn’t pull grades entered via PTP!! PS10/PTG still does!

32. New Option Available Now? Works in 9 & 10 too!
Standards Grades Search Tool Customizations

33. Within seconds, all the students who were under performing in that grade and the selected term appear on the scree and can be exported!

34. Administrators want %... now they can!

35. Each standard in given grade level and term display as a row
Each standard in given grade level and term display as a row. Click on the row and you get…. ?

36. PTP MIGRATION DASHBOARD by Adam Larsen
If you run this from the district you will get display all your divisions or campus
COOL PLUG-INS

37. PowerSchool Insider by Jason Springel
NEW

38. Mark Anderson must understand us!!
I can’t this weekend, I’m doing a PowerSchool Administrator Triathlon
creating new standards, retiring old ones, making 8 new report cards

39. Q & A ANY AND ALL DERO RESOURCES ARE AVAILABLE
TO DOWNLOAD, TWEAK and USE FOR YOUR DISTRICT!
Bob Cornacchioli DERO Technical Services