2. Florida Standards Parent Night
Pasco County Schools
Kurt Browning, Superintendent
Preparing Our Students for College, Career and Life
Welcome/Intro
Recognize School-Based Administrators/Teachers in attendance, as well as host school.
Florida Standards Parent Night

3. College, Career, and Life Ready
A Student Achieving the Standards:
Demonstrates Independence
Builds Strong Content Knowledge
Responds to the Varying Demands of Audience, Task, Purpose, and Discipline
Comprehends and Critiques
Values Evidence
Uses Technology Strategically and Capably
Understands Other Perspectives and Cultures.
Star 3: Students are able to communicate taking their audience, task, purpose and discipline when they set a purpose for reading, writing, speaking and listening, language as driven by the task or purpose for learning. They also recognize that the audience affects the tone when speaking and the connotation of words affects meaning. They also recognize that different classes require different types of evidence (Documentary evidence in history and experimental evidence in science.)

4. What are the Florida Standards?
A set of clear, consistent, internationally benchmarked K-12 standards in English Language Arts and Mathematics that will provide a purposeful framework to prepare our students for college and the workplace.
Part 2 –WHAT Building Background Knowledge About the CCSS (– 20 minutes)
Brief overview of the LAFS

5. Florida adopted the CCSS with minor revisions (mostly at the primary grades)
Added standards for handwriting, calculus, etc. based on educator and parent feedback
LAFS (Language Arts Florida Standards) and MAFS (Mathematics Florida Standards)
American Institutes for Research (AIR) was contracted to develop state assessments to measure student proficiency of the Florida Standards (FSA)

6. How are the ELA standards different?b
How are the ELA standards different?
LAFS
Regular practice with complex text and academic language
Reading, writing and speaking grounded in evidence from informational and literary text
Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction

7. How can you help your child in literacy?b
How can you help your child in literacy?
Ask specific questions about what your child reads.
Encourage reading, then writing and talking about nonfiction text such as newspapers, magazines, and biographies.
Encourage researching topics of interest and reading series that relate to a central topic.
Have your child follow step by step instructions or a set of directions in order to accomplish a task, such as building a sandcastle or operating a game.
These are ideas for supporting students with the Common Core shifts in ELA/Literacy at home.
As students read, parents can read the same material and have conversations with their children that are focused on the text.
Give children multiple opportunities to engage in reading about things that interest them – especially informational texts (biographies, historical non-fiction, hobbies, sports, science topics, etc.) If your children are interested in games, have them read information about who invented the game, when it was invented, or have them explain step by step procedures to make their games operate in a certain manner. If they are interested in different historical figures, athletes, or science topics, encourage them to read books or articles that relate to those people.
As children inquire about different concepts or become curious about certain topics, encourage them to research their own questions by doing a web search and reading news articles or books that help them to find out new information.

8. How are the MATH standards different?b
How are the MATH standards different?
Focus strongly where the standards focus
Coherence: think across grades and link to major topics within grades
Rigor: In major topics, pursue with equal intensity: conceptual understanding, procedural skill and fluency, and application
MAFS

9. How can you help your child in math?b
How can you help your child in math?
Practice addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts with your child.
Encourage children not to give up while solving problems, to build stamina and develop their critical thinking skills. Don’t give them the answers - ask them to think of different ways they can solve problems.
Have your child illustrate the math they are thinking in their head and discuss it out loud.
Ask children apply their math knowledge to a real-world scenario at home, such as doubling a recipe or calculating the area of their room.
These are some ideas to support children at home with the Common Core shifts in math.
Working with your child on basic math facts such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division will help to improve student’s speed and accuracy in math. This could involve a variety of opportunities from flash cards to games including dice and cards.
Encourage your child not to give up on math problems, but finish them to completion. This will help build their stamina for solving multi-step problems that they will be required to engage in at school. Encourage children to engage in math games or test their skills with online math challenges that are timed.
Many student can get the answers to their math problems, but have a difficult time explaining their thinking behind the answer. Encouraging your child to talk the math out and show their work or thinking helps them to demonstrate their conceptual understanding of math.
Helping children to see math in action at home creates a real-world experience and application for math skills. Try measuring ingredients, measuring objects around the house, calculating the area of a room to input furniture, analyzing sports statistics, etc.

10. Grades 3 -10 FSA ELA (Reading) Grades 4 – 10 FSA ELA (Writing)
Grades 3 – 8 FSA MATH

11. 3rd Grade FSA 2018 www.fsassessments.org
April 9 & 10 ~ ELA Reading ~ Paper and Pencil Test
April 30 & May 1 ~ 3rd Grade Math ~ Computer Based Test or
April 18 & 19 ~ 4th Grade Math ~ Computer Based Test

12. Grade 3 FSA Specifics: ELA Reading – Paper and Pencil Test
2 – 80 minute sessions
Text passages have an approximate word count of words
Multiple choice, Multiple-select, Editing
Math – Computer-based Test
Multiple choice, Multiple-select, and Equation Response Questions
No tools required (rulers, protractors, etc.)

13. Florida Statute
FSA for English Language Arts impacts students in grade 3 for promotion and retention. Students in grade 3 must score level 2 or higher on the ELA FSA to be promoted to grade 4, unless they meet a “good cause exemption”.

14. 6 Good Cause Exemptions
Limited English Proficient students with less than 2 years of ESOL instruction.
ESE students whose IEP indicates participation in statewide assessment isn’t appropriate.
Performance on a state approved alternative assessment (45th percentile on SAT 10).
Portfolio documenting mastery of grade 3 ELA standards assessed on FSA.

15. Exemptions from Third Grade Retention
ESE or 504 students who participate in state assessments, have received intervention for more than 2 years, and have been previously retained once.
Students who received ELA intervention for 2 or more years and have already been retained twice. Students can only be retained once in 3rd grade.

16. FSA Practice Tests www.fsassessments.org
Allows Parents and Students to become familiar with the system, functionality, and item types
Sample items for different grade levels (3- 10) and subject areas (Reading, Writing, Language, Listening, and Math)

17. ELA Examples
From the 3rd /4th grade ELA practice test. Shows picking 2 sentences.

18. ELA Examples
Shows “choose two” again.

19. Math Examples
3rd grade test, multiple choice

20. Math Examples
3rd -4th grade test- shows creating an equation.

21. Math Examples
3rd-4th grade- shows interactive bar graph

22. FSA Results & Implications
Performance Indicators –Students will receive a scale score and performance level.
Reporting Categories– Groups of similar skills and points possible for each category.
Performance Levels (2017) – Range from 1 (lowest) to 5 (highest) will be reported. Level 3 will continue to represent satisfactory performance.

23. Resources for Familiesb
Resources for Families
Pasco County Schools
Florida Department of Education
FSA Training Tests
CCSS for Parents
The Parent Toolkit
The Parents’ Guide to School Success
Knowledge Library
FAQs and Myths & Facts
Understanding the Common Core