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Mike Tart, ELA/Writing Learning Systems Coach Cindy Manning, LEA Test Coordinator. Writing Two ‘Online’ LEA Perspectives Craven County Schools. Teamwork is Key. District and School Writing Goal Teams. Strong Curriculum Leadership with Vision. District and School Technology Staff. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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WritingTwo ‘Online’ LEA Perspectives
Craven County SchoolsMike Tart, ELA/Writing Learning Systems Coach
Cindy Manning, LEA Test Coordinator
Teamwork is Key
District and School Writing Goal Teams
District and School Technology Staff
District and School Testing Staff
Strong Curriculum Leadership with Vision
IMPORTANT: Stay in Communication!
Testing:A Look at What Has Worked for Us
• Writing Action Plans• Training and Support• Best Practices• Responsibilities• Forms• Technology Support
District Writing Action Plans - TestingDistrict curriculum, testing, and technology staff met together to develop a procedures document. This document is a work in progress maintained by LEA TC on our district testing website.
District Trainings to Support Implementation - Testing
• LEA Test Coordinator trains School Test Coordinators in September – Comprehensive Guide 2009-2010 North Carolina Instruction System– Craven County Schools Writing Instruction System Procedures – School Test Coordinator Responsibilities and Quick Reference Guide– NCRegistration– Test Security
• LEA Test Coordinator includes Writing updates via email and testing update portion of other test trainings
• School Test Coordinator is responsible for training school staff on district WIS Procedures
Best Practices - Testing• Request for Participation in Writing Instruction System document• Registering Students: Testing Office bulk uploads all students into
NCRegistration. Then STC registers new students as needed.• Pull Birthday lists from NCWISE by grade level – these have more
information and detail for entering students into NCR (STC)• Pull Admission/WD from NCWISE on regular basis to update NCR
(STC)• Teacher Accounts and/or Student Passwords:
– Download csv file from NCRegistration (STC)– Use Mail Merge for instruction sheets and/or to create labels for login note
cards (STC)• ELA teachers have flash drives for saving all papers• Log or monitoring system of student completion
Responsibilities for
Implementation - Testing
District Forms Created to Support Implementation - Testing
Classroom Teacher
School Test Coordinator
LEA Test Coordinator
Technology Support for Implementation -Testing
• District and School technology personnel assist with hardware and/or internet connectivity issues as needed during CSTA and ODTA sessions and scoring process.
• NCRegistration: – School Test Coordinators create and delete user and student accounts– School Test Coordinators schedule On Demand sessions– District Office of Testing and Accountability assists when issues arise
• Writing Instruction System (WIS): School Test Coordinators are trained to monitor online scoring completion in the WIS
Curriculum:A Look at What Has Worked for Us
• Writing Action Plans• Training and Support• Best Practices• Responsibilities• Forms• Technology Support
District Writing Action Plans - Curriculum
• Alignment of district and school Writing Action Plans and Goal Teams (Key strategies, Action steps)
• Shared Template used at all levels• Accountability for reporting to
district and school cabinets.
Superintendent’s Cabinet
District Writing Action Plan Manager(Reports to Cabinet Monthly)
District Writing Goal Team
(Monthly Meetings)
School Writing Goal Team Managers
(Quarterly Meetings)
School Writing Goal Team Manager and
Action Plan(Reports Weekly to
School Cabinet)
School Writing Goal Team
(Meets on scheduled basis)
District/School Action Plan Focus
• Implementation of Writer's Workshop K-12
• Implementation of State Writing Instruction System
• Implementation of alignment pilot at grades 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10
• Writing data collection, analysis, and reporting
District Trainings and Support for Implementation - Curriculum
• NCDPI Writing Scoring Rubrics Training (Features/Conventions and Content)
• NCDPI WIS Moodle Training Support• District Support for Individual School Goal
Teams Based on Need (ex. integration into curriculum/development of writing tasks)
Best Practices - Curriculum• Move away from mindset of old assessment system• First on-demand used as baseline• First and second content-specific task used for writing instruction and
formative assessment• Authentic Writing Tasks incorporated into classroom instruction and
assessment• Students encouraged to work on outside of class• Can draft online or upload from thumb drive• Final Copy – Students type at top of paper in WIS• Score as students complete – don’t wait!• Final on-demand task used as summative assessment of growth
Responsibilities for Implementation - Curriculum
District Writing Coordinator
District Writing Goal Team
School Writing Goal Team Managers
School-Based Writing Goal Team
District Forms Created to Support Implementation - Curriculum
• White Writing Folder– Houses On-Demand and Content-Specific Tasks– Documents scores on all assessment pieces K-12– Placed in CUM Folder at end of year– Next year’s teacher reviews student writing/can compare with new
baseline
Technology Support for Implementation - Curriculum
• Classroom teachers coordinate scheduling of computer labs with school-based technology facilitator and STC (STC schedules on-demand in NCRegistration)
• 1:1 Laptop pilots
Together Everyone Achieves More!
Teamwork is Key… Now it’s your turn…Go forth and write!
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