Updates to North CarolinaRead to Achieve

September 27, 2015

Personalized Education Plans

• No longer a requirement of the Excellent Public Schools Act

• Not required, but not prohibited

• HB 237

• Must identify students at risk for academic failure and not successfully progressing toward grade promotion and graduation

Reading Camps

• Addition of first and second graders

• “Demonstrates reading comprehension below grade level as identified through administration of formative and diagnostic assessments”

• Attendance encouraged

• Parents have final decision about attendance

Accountability

• Number and percentage of first graders not demonstrating reading comprehension at grade level

• Number and percentage of second graders not demonstrating reading comprehension at grade level

• Report to State Board of Education and General Assembly

Revised RtA Guidebook

• Changes– PEP requirement and suggested forms removed

– RtI information replaced with MTSS information

– KEA information/dates updated

Good Cause Exemptions

• LEP students– Less than 2 school years of instruction in ESL

– July 1, 2014

Portfolios

• Hard copy passages have not been shipped from NCTOPS

• Waiting for close of General Assembly session

• Currently, the 2015-16 portfolio will be the same as last year

• Instructional passages – the same

• Assessment passages are 2014-15 selections plus 5 per standard from reading camp

• Cannot use assessment passages for instruction

Written Response to Texts

• New written response to text prompts for books in TRC

• All teachers MUST review a video before assessing children in TRC at BOY

• New rubric and exemplars developed as a guide

• Completely aligned to standards

Parent Resources

• Parent brochures (purchased from the Communications division at DPI) in English or Spanish

• Parent narrated powerpoint

• Parent livebinder

http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=1326906

Livebinders

• Read to Achieve http://www.livebinders.com/play/play/850102– Parent

– Principal

– Written Response to Texts

– Big Ideas in Beginning Reading

– Reading Camp

Contact Information

Carolyn Guthrie

carolyn.guthrie@dpi.nc.gov

919-807-3762