1. What is RICAS?

2. Shedding Some Light on RICAS

3. RICAS Raises the bar on RI education

4. RICAS ASSESSES SCHOOLS

5. RICAS ASSESSES STANDARDS LEARNING

6. FOR COMMON LEARNING OVER THE GRADES, BUILD FROM GRADE TO GRADE

7. ADVANCED STUDENTS AREN’T HURT

8. ADVANCED STUDENTS Are Revealed Via RICAS

9. COMMON CORE STATE
STANDARDS
NATIONAL STANDARDS
ARE TESTED
INTRODUCED 201O

10. STANDARDS LEARNING INITATED BY PRESIDENT REAGAN

11. 1989 STATE GOVERNORS’
CONFERENCE
AS RESPONSE TO JAPAN’S
ECONOMIC GROWTH

12. BROWN’S TED SIZER All Students Learn The Same Under- standings

14. THE TEST IS LEVERAGE TO HELP ALL KIDS LEARN

15. BROWN’S GRANT WIGGINS:
TEACH FOR THE TEST
AP, SAT, GRE, BAR EXAM
BACKWARDS PLANNING

16. BROWN’S GRANT WIGGINS 1980’s What are Essential Learnings

17. NOT A “HIGH STAKES, STANDARDIZED, BUBBLE TEST”

18. THE TEST IS A CRITERION- REFERENCE TEST

19. NCLB, 2002 FREAKED Mass. teachers out

20. GREATEST SCHOOL GAINS UNDER NCLB

21. RI HAD “NECAP” test FOR MANY MANY YEARS START OF SCHOOL YEAR POOR TEST
DISMISSED BY MANY
MCAS started 1998

22. RI HAD “NECAP” TIL 2016 RELATIVELY WEAK STATE AND DISTRICT AND SCHOOL
LEADERSHIP IN RI FOR NECAP
CAN WE DO BETTER?
MCAS too was hated

23. Mass. folks
resisted MCAS

24. Mass. LEADERSHIP PUSHED

25. Mass.TOOK SLOW, GRADUAL EASY STEPS TO HIGH LEVELS

26. RICAS HIT RI SCHOOLS LIKE A TON OF BRICKS WITH A HARD TEST

27. “IF RI WERE A MA DISTRICT IT WOULD BE IN THE BOTTOM”

29. RICAS REQUIRES COLLABORATION

30. WOULD STANDARDS LEARNING HAPPEN WITHOUT THE TEST?

31. THE STANDARDS ARE EXCELLENT LEARNING GUIDES

32. RICAS Is About TEXT EVIDENCE, INFERENCE
Test Features
RICAS Is About TEXT EVIDENCE, INFERENCE

33. Test Features
Where’s the EVIDENCE

34. CLASSROOM PRACTICE SCAFFOLD AS NEEDED

35. Reading Independently Develops Comprehension, Vocabulary, Fluency
CLASSROOM PRACTICE
Reading Independently Develops Comprehension, Vocabulary, Fluency

37. CLASSROOM LIBRARIES FOR INDEPENDENT READING

39. Present and develop a narrative that uses details from the passage.
This question is a text-based essay question.
Your essay should:
Present and develop a narrative that uses details from the passage.
Include correct grammar, spelling, punctuation
At the end of the passage, Howie tells Kevin that he is not making a good case. Write an original story that describes what Kevin does next to try to change Howie’s mind about paying for Cromwell’s training.

40. This question is a text-based essay question.
Write your essay in the space provided. Your essay should:
Provide evidence/details from the passage(s).
Include correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
Write an essay that explains how the article and poem portray the blizzards of Be sure to use information from the article and poem to develop your essay.

41. This question is a text-based essay question.
Your essay should:
Present and develop a central idea.
Provide evidence/details from the passage(s).
Include correct grammar, spelling, punctuation.
Based on the passage, write an essay to explain how Alex changed as he spent more time with Irene. use information from the passage to develop your essay.

42. Great Standards Teaching Results in Great Learning

43. Can RI Duplicate what Mass. has done? Academic Achievement