1. K-3 Formative Assessment: Assessment for Learning and Development Principal Council Meeting North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Office of Early Learning October 2013

2. Welcome & Introductions http://mayasaric.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/handshake-red-yellow.jpg

3. K-3 Formative Assessment Vision Gathering your input for the Assessment Design Team Future Opportunities

4. Present understanding On a sticky note write your definition for formative assessment.

5. According to the Experts Formative Assessment is… all those activities undertaken by teachers, and by their students in assessing themselves, which provide information to be used as feedback to modify the teaching and learning activities in which they are engaged. Such assessment becomes ‘formative assessment’ when the evidence is actually used to adapt the teaching work to meet the needs. Black and William, 1998; summarized in 2001

6. According to the Experts Formative assessment practice operates as a feedback loop in which both teachers and students can play active, distinctive, yet complementary roles in enabling learning by consistently working to build and consolidate student understanding and skills during the course of a lesson. Margaret Heritage, Spring 2011. Formative assessment: An enabler of learning. Better: Evidence-based Education.

7. Formative Assessment A process used by teachers and students during instruction that provides feedback to adjust ongoing teaching and learning to help students improve their achievement of intended instructional outcomes. NC Department of Public Instruction CCSSO 2006

8. What does an effective teacher do?

9. Formative Assessment Picture from Northwest Evaluations Association

10. Classroom/School culture shift? Minor or No ShiftHUGE Shift

11. K-3 Formative Assessment Vision

13. K-3 Formative Assessment PBIS Responsiveness to Instruction DPI Race to the Top Read to Achieve Reading 3D Home Base

14. K-3 Formative Assessment Vision Approaches to Learning Cognitive Development Language Development & Communication Health & Physical Development Emotional & Social Development 5 Domains of Learning and Development

15. K-3 Formative Assessment Vision Third Grade Second Grade First Grade Kindergarten KEA

18. Race to the Top- Early Learning Challenge Grant NC State Law “Read to Achieve ”

19. What is essential? How do we measure this? How do we implement for sustainability? What is working? What could be?

20. Our Proposed Timeline TaskTimeline K-3 Assessment Design & DevelopmentSpring 2013 – Summer 2014 Initial ImplementationFall 2014 – Spring 2015 Statewide ImplementationSummer 2015 – ongoing

21. Future Stakeholders Opportunities Teacher Advisory Team Focus Group Reviewers Surveys Conference Sessions Webinars

22. NCDPI K-3 Assessment Wiki http://rtt-elc-k3assessment.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/

23. Office of Early Learning Listserv join-office_of_early_learning_pre-k-grade3@lists.dpi.state.nc.us

24. What Questions Do You Have?

25. Working Together http://tinyurl.com/principalcouncil