1. Kansas Common Core Standards Transition Timeline
Southwest Plains Regional service Center
Dr. Kelly Gillespie
December 1, 2010
Superintendents Council

2. USMRS: Unified Standards Multiple Resource Service (Data base being prepared by KSDE)
SBAC: Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (see additional handout)
Feedback: Crosswalks and bridging documents : How old and new align

6. Soft Landing Gradual transition with all aspects of adoption.
Introduction of new or aligned items on the summative assessments.
Pilot SBAC assessment components.
Partner with consortium states, national and regional organizations and state professional organizations.
Introduction of instructional resources.
Implement USED waiver on modified accountability.
Waivers would be granted by USDE for this to happen—we are pursuing waivers as a state and as a consortium of states that adopted common core

7. Assessment Development
Kansas Common Core Standards Transition Timeline
Assessment Development
2011
Unchanged
2012
Re-aligned
2013
New item types
2014
Waiver
2015
Implement
We do not know yet where the deltas will fall
2012 (Re-aligned—take things out that are NOT in common core)
2013 (Put in new items and have in new format)—working on cut scores
2014 (all new test)
Modified Accountability
No AYP

8. Hard Landing Complete adoption delayed until 2014-2015.
Transition to new assessments only in formative applications.
Review without implementation of new instructional resources.
Provide professional development on two tracks.
Partner with consortium states, national and regional organizations and state professional organizations.
Implement new assessments and accountability in 2015.
No waivers…new test in 2014 would be the pilot…cut scores would not be determined

9. Questions