What tools do you have in your
toolbox?Jennifer Weeks, Assistant Superintendent
Dr. Meredith Park, Formative Assessment Coordinator
Overview of TE21
• Case 21 Benchmark Assessments
• Case 21 Item Bank
• Academy of Reading
• Academy of Math
Common Core Implementation
What do we want for our students?
• Prepared for the Workforce
• Prepared for College
• Prepared for the Military
• Lifelong Learners
• Critical Readers and Thinkers
CCSS ImplementationWhich tools will help us achieve these goals?
• Collective Experience
• Collaboration
• Professional Development
• Common Assessments
• Collaborative Leadership
• Curriculum-Instruction-Assessment Alignment
• Personalization
Collective Experience
• Minimize Duplication of Efforts
• Encourage Collaboration
• Equity
Common Expectations
Mobility
Collaboration
• Sustained
• On-going
• Team Meetings/Collegial Conversations
• Interdisciplinary Coordination
Curriculum-Instruction-Assessment
• “Know and are able to do”
• Rigorous
• Text-dependent questioning
• Application
• School-wide/District-wide
Curriculum-Instruction-Assessment
• Demonstrate independence
• Build content knowledge
• Respond to varying demands
• Comprehend and critique
• Text complexity
Curriculum-Instruction-Assessment
• Read like detectives
• Academic vocabulary
• Annotate
• Write critically - Why?
Personalization
• Tiered Instruction
• Changes in Text Complexity
• Lexile Level Shifts
• Grade Span Shifts in Mathematics
CASE21 Pilot Spring 2011
• Lake Cormorant Elementary School
• Horn Lake Middle School
• Southaven High School
Testing Process
• Send previous MCT2 data to CASE21
• Pacing Guides
• Draft Review
• Test and Answer Document Delivery
• Test Administration
• Scoring and Data Dissimination
Pacing Guides
• Importance of Pacing Guides
• Teacher and/or Curriculum Specialist Input
• Suggested Pacing Guides
• http://www.case21inc.com/products-and-services/pacing-guides/mississippi-pacing-guides
Draft Review
• Curriculum Alignment
• Blueprint Alignment
• Cumulative/Comprehensive
• Test Item Stem/Foils Format
Scanning/Scoring• Answer documents returned to a
central location.
• Answer documents scanned in-house and uploaded to CASE21 for review.
• Answer documents are returned to the schools.
• CASE21 compiles data and uploads reports on sharefile site.
Data Reports
• District Report for Comparison of Schools
• School Report for Comparison of Teachers
• Teacher Report for Student Identification
• Item Analysis Report with Red/Green Visuals
Questions?
Jennifer Weeks, Assistant Superintendent
Email: [email protected]
Meredith Park, Formative Assessment Coordinator
Email: [email protected]