1. Kansas Leads the World in the Success of Each Student.
Dr. Randy Watson, Kansas Commissioner of Education

2. Kansas leads the world in the success of each student..
A NEW Vision for Kansas….
Kansas leads the world in the success of each student..
Based on the feedback received across the state, the board has adopted as its new vision for education “Kansas leads the world in the success of each student.”
We intend to challenge the status quo, move away from placing emphasis on a single test score and focus more on helping each student identify and achieve their career aspirations.
Teachers, administrators and support staff already are doing great work preparing Kansas’ students for success, and this new vision stands to unite our efforts across the state. You will hear us say we need to rethink how our schools are asked to operate. From a state perspective, we will look at every requirement to determine if and how we are supporting or impeding our schools’ abilities to address the needs of each child.

4. Kansas State Assessments
Make the State Summative Assessment shorter
✔ We shrunk the assessment stages by 60% in each subject!
Give us results back faster
✔ Results will be available at the end of the testing cycle!
Have the state assessment predict to ACT and other national tests
✔ A correspondence table to ACT was available this fall!
✔ Reports this spring will have it on the student report!
Make KITE work and if we have trouble, can we talk to someone?
✔ Increased help desk staff hired, wait time almost zero!

5. Update on Search for Supt for KSSB and KSD
Review of the process to date
Met with leadership at both schools
Posted job opening, flyers, job descriptions
Selection process for interviewing
Interviewing process
Decision making process
Recommendation to SBOE in May

6. Five Year Graduation Rate
Kansans Can
Lead the World!
Graduation: 95%
Effective Rate: 70-75%
Five Year Graduation Rate
84.2%
Five Year
Success Rate
55.1%
Five Year
Effective Rate
46.4%
83.1
55.2
45.9
85.2
53.6
45.7
85.8
55.7
47.8
86.1
56.1
48.3
The numerator and denominator in the Five Year Rates contain total student counts over five years ( ). .
Graduation Rate: The 4-year adjusted cohort graduation rate is the number of students who graduate in four years with a regular high school diploma divided by the
number of students who entered high school as 9th graders four years earlier (adjusting for transfers in and out).
Success Rate: The sum of the percentage of students who enrolled in postsecondary in both the first and second year following high school graduation plus the
percentage of students who graduated from postsecondary.
Effective Rate: The calculated Graduation Rate multiplied by the calculated Success Rate.

7. Risk Factors Cumulative Poverty Chronic Absenteeism
Risk Factors than influence success
Cumulative Poverty
Chronic Absenteeism
Suspension and Expulsion
Mobility
ELL Population
Disabled Student Population
Percent of New Teachers

10. Today’s students are the future workforce and future leaders of Kansas
Today’s students are the future workforce and future leaders of Kansas. Kansans Can achieve anything and, together, Kansans Can lead the world in the success of each student.