1. Welcome, High School Principals! January 22, 2015 Agenda and Updates on wiki hsprograms.pbworks.com

3. Brian Pittman Holly Springs High School Tom Dixon Apex High School

4. Content Updates

5. Social Studies  Voter Registration Drive  March 23-27 for the Leadership Academies  March 30-April 6 for everyone else  Please alert Voter Registration Coordinators

6. Social Studies  Name change for Civics & Economics to “American History: The Founding Principles, Civics & Economics”  Effective 2015-16  Does not effect sequencing of courses  Can still take AP US History and IB History of Americas as stand-alone courses

7. Advanced Placement  AP Audit Information  AP Survey Athens Green Hope Middle Creek Millbrook Wakefield COMPLETECOMPLETE

8. English  English II Benchmarks  Performance Tasks  Last Semester– Try it and Report  This Semester– Normed across district  Implementation Guide  Score Reports for Part 1 Reading and Part 2 Writing in April  All materials in Content Updates and on English wiki

9. Cathy Moore and Ruth Steidinger Managerial Leadership

10. 11:30-1:00 Lunch

11. 21 st Century Assessment Strategic Leadership

12. Balanced Assessment?

13. Assessment Alignment https://www.yo utube.com/watc h?v=zamE9cvC6 u0#t=28

14. “4C” Measurement: The Future is Now College and Work Readiness Assessment (CWRA+) – Online assessment includes a performance task and 25 selected- response items – 5 WCPSS high schools in Spring 2015 – Analytic reasoning, problem solving, and written communication – http://cae.org/images/uploads/pdf/CWRA_Student_Guide_Institution.pdf http://cae.org/images/uploads/pdf/CWRA_Student_Guide_Institution.pdf Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) – Administered to 15-year-olds in 70 countries – Math, Science, Reading, and general cross-curricular competencies – 5 WCPSS high schools in 2014; 5 more in Spring 2015 – http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/PISA/ http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/PISA/

16. K-12 Aligned Literacy Instructional Leadership

18. Writing Focus Group Sherri Miller, Sherri Miller, K-12 Director Sara Overby, Sara Overby, HS ELA Melissa Hurst, Melissa Hurst, MS ELA Barbara Sorensen, Barbara Sorensen, ES ELA Sharon Collins, Sharon Collins, ES ELA Walter Harris, Walter Harris, ES ELA Shanta Lightfoot, Shanta Lightfoot, MS ELA

20. The Heart of Writing

21. Argument Training Day 1 Day 2– March 2, 2015 CR2 1400 Send the same team for Day 2. HS Programs pays for subs.

22. Day 4—Writing in the Content Areas Day 5—Performance Tasks/Integrated Units

23. http://tinyurl.com/Growing-Writers-Video

24. Designing Aligned K-12 Writing Rubrics 24 Teachers Across District Across Grades K -12 Across Content Areas David Balmer, SocSt, Heritage Tammy King, SocSt, Holly Springs Kristen Larsen, SocSt, Sanderson Laura Stiles, Sci, Wakefield Molly Bostic, Sci, Heritage Mary Cate Larocca, ELA, Southeast Raleigh Jenni Greene, ELA, Holly Springs Lauren Genesky, ELA, Millbrook Carrie Horton, ELA, Vernon Malone

25. Argument Informative Narrative Aligned Rubrics for Quality K through 12 

27. Cross-Curricular Implementation http://map.mathshell.org/materials/_map/_map/pics/map_teachers_1.jpg

28. 2. Look across: one skill criterion What do you notice about growth within and across grade spans? How might these rubrics support a call to rigor in content-area learning? 1.Look down What do you notice about skills and criteria? How might these fit all content areas? Apply It: Apply It: Choose a skill criterion. Read the student response. What subskill feedback would you give this student? How can the quality continuum be used to support qualitative student growth, rather than quantitative grades? Table Talk http://tinyurl.com/k9cgu3c

29. Bright Ideas We Need Some Bright Ideas! http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/light-bulb-idea-821688.jpg Google Response Form http://goo.gl/forms/Io07BqGRMD One per group What ideas do you have for implementation in a high-school culture and climate?

31. http://map.mathshell.org/materials/_map/_map/pics/map_teachers_1.jpg http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/06/0925/m/02-IMG_7678.jpg Teacher Professional Development Fidelity of Cross-Curricular Implementation

32. http://www.onlinecolleges.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Writerfolio.jpg Interactive Digital Rubrics K-12 Digital Portfolios

35. Access to Rigor Instructional Leadership

36. Equity Leadership Mindset Start with “Why”See InequitiesUnderstand InequitiesInterrupt Inequities

37. AP Potential—Online (access code required) Right to Rigor—Via email on January 8 Five-Year Report—Online (access code required) Integrated Report—Via email on January 8 Quickr Roster Reports:

38. AP Potential Report

39. Right to Rigor Overview

40. Right to Rigor: Student & Course Gaps

41. Right To Rigor Reports

42. Right to Rigor Reports

43. Sample Five-Year Report

44. Integrated Report…Page 20

45. Quickr Roster See link in agenda to ACT document: “Using PLAN to Identify Student Readiness for Rigorous Courses in High School”

46. Identifying Barriers

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48. Debrief  Barriers added by your group?  Ways to interrupt barriers?  Areas of focus?  Request from HS Team: ask department chairs of core academic areas how their department approaches the recommendation process

49. Graduation Managerial Leadership