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!

Questions?