Curriculum CouncilDecember 3, 2014

CIU10 Updates

Updates fromKristen

Baughman-Gray

*Galaxy*Nearpod*Math Design Collaborative*STEM Consortium• Engineering byDesign• K’Nex Challenge

Updates fromBethann McCain

*Statewide Keystones to Literacy• Comprehensive Literacy

Planning• Eduplanet

*Text-Dependent Analysis• DOK• Close Reading• School-Specific Item

Development• Interest in Administrator

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Professional Development

• CIU Professional Development Offerings• Continuing Professional Education Courses• SAS Institute – Dec. 7-9• Improving Schools Conference – January 25-28• PDE Data Summit – March 22-25

Professional Development

• Leadership Institute at Toftrees – July 8-10• AP Summer Institute – August 3-6

• Spanish Language & Culture (Maria Vazquez-Mauricio)

• Statistics (Kenneth Pendleton)• Physics 1: Algebra-Based (Patricia Zober)• US History (Ed Austin)• Environmental Science (Tim Anderson)

Professional Development

• Dec – Data Governance, PATI• Jan – Dirty Data, Course/HQT• Feb. – PVAAS• April – Preparing for Audits, Safe

Schools• May – Database Primer, Child

AccountingContact Kim Moyer for more information.

14/15 Data Quality Network Topics

PDE/PAIUCC Updates

Educator Effectiveness

*Copyright Update for PE and NTPE

*Contact Deb Wynn for the permission formdewynn@pa.gov

* Media Kit is updated*Graph Icon*Extra Credit for IB (4 or higher)*Science Closing the Gap*Writing ELA doubled*See the SPP formulas:2013-14 formula and the 2014-15 formula

SPPs

FIRST

*Fidelity Implementation Review & Support Tool*Expected release = Jan. 15*Available only for tested grades & subjects*Teachers mark standards & eligible content taught & at what level of fidelity*Related formative assessments are available, as well

PVAAS

• Reflection Guide = Self-Reflection Tool for Teacher Specific Reporting

• Demo Account• Frequently Asked Questions

PVAAS Demo. Account

PVAAS Frequently

Asked Questions

Q1. Why isn’t there a report for a teacher who rostered?

PVAAS Frequently

Asked Questions

To actually be included in PVAAS Teacher Specific reporting, a student MUST:• Have a PSSA or Keystone score from the most recent

year• NOT be a foreign exchange student• NOT be a first-year ELL student• NOT be Proficient or Advanced on a PRIOR Keystone

exam• NOT be claimed at less than 10% instructional

responsibility• NOT have tested with the PASA (alternate

assessment)Must have at least 11 studentsMust have an “Active N Count” of at least 6 students/6.0 FTE Students

PVAAS Frequently

Asked Questions

Q2. Why is there no Individual Student Growth Measure?

PVAAS Frequently

Asked Questions

*Growth is about a GROUP of students NOT an individual student.*Error would be too large for an individual student to know if they made growth or not.

PVAAS Frequently

Asked Questions

Q3. Why no predicted score Now for SY 2014-2015?

PVAAS Frequently

Asked Questions

• A student’s predicted score is based on the student’s own testing history and on the average performance of students in the same cohort statewide who have a similar testing history.

• In other words, for each assessment we analyze with the predictive model, we look at the past testing histories of students across the state who took that assessment in the most recent year.

• Because the predicted score is based on the performance of other students statewide who took the assessment in the same year, it’s not possible to generate the predicted score prior to the assessment.

• What would the score tell you that a PVAAS projection/% of likelihood does not?

PVAAS Frequently

Asked Questions

Q4. Why is there a difference in my School Value-Added vs. Teacher Value-Added Reporting?

PVAAS Frequently

Asked Questions

2 Primary Reasons:

• PVAAS School Reporting uses full academic year/Oct 1 as a requirement for including students

• PVAAS Teacher Value-added reporting uses % Student + Teacher Enrollment and % Shared Instruction to determine the weighting of each student on each teacher’s PVAAS teacher Specific Reporting

PVAAS Frequently

Asked Questions

Q5. What is the Composite score?

PVAAS Frequently

Asked Questions

• A combined growth measure across a teacher’s PVAAS reported subjects/grades/courses within SY13-14.

• For SY13-14, we only have one year of reporting so the Composite Score is a combined growth measure across a teacher’s PVAAS reported subjects/grades/courses for SY13-14 only.

• In future years, the Composite Score will represent a combined growth measure across a teacher’s PVAAS reported subjects/grade/courses across years, up to and including 3 consecutive school years.

1 year Composite 2 Year Composite 3 Year Composite/3 Year Rolling Average

PVAAS Frequently

Asked Questions

Q6. How is the Composite Score calculated?

PVAAS Frequently

Asked Questions

• To calculate the composite, a simple average is taken of all of the teacher's individual index values for up to three years.

• Then the average is multiplied by the square root of the number of individual index values that went into the average.

• This step is a necessary step that accounts for the fact that more data was used to generate the average than was used to generate each individual index, which affects the standard error for the composite.

PVAAS Frequently

Asked Questions

Q7. Why is there a difference between my Composite vs. my Teacher Value-Added?

PVAAS Frequently

Asked Questions

• The growth color indicators are categories or ranges of indicators of growth. We cannot “average” categories. In other words, green + red ≠ yellow; likewise green + dark blue ≠ light blue.

• For PVAAS, the assumption is that the achievement level of the teacher's group of students is maintained (green) UNLESS there is enough evidence in the assessment data to say otherwise.

PVAAS Frequently

Asked Questions

• It is all about the amount of evidence in the student assessment results – the assumption is that the achievement level of the teacher's group of students is maintained (green) UNLESS there is enough evidence in the assessment data to say otherwise. 

• The more data available, the more evidence we have to see if the group of students exceeded the growth standard OR not.

• There is more evidence when all data was combined for a composite score. With data from multiple subjects (or multiple years when that’s available) included in the Composite, there’s more evidence/more data.

• The composite is not really an “average,” but rather an accumulation of the evidence/data towards meeting, exceeding, or falling short of the standard for PA Academic Growth.

PVAAS Frequently

Asked Questions

Q8. Why is there a difference between my Teacher Value Added vs. my Diagnostic Reporting?

PVAAS Frequently

Asked Questions

• Diagnostic Reports do NOT factor in the percent of Instructional Responsibility

• Students are weighted equally• Reflect the growth of a group of

students who may have had more than one teacher with instructional responsibility in that specific subject/grade or course

Comprehensive Planning

*Priority & Focus Schools – Yearly Plan Resubmission to Executive Director*Updates were made to CTC components to align with Ch. 4*A new web service will handle EDNA imports

Comprehensive Planning

*Webcasts added to CP Resource Page http://compplanning.wiki.caiu.org/home*To join the Listserv, go tohttp://mailinglist.caiu.org• Click PA Planning• Click on Subscribe or

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Comprehensive Planning

*Act 71 of 2014 Requires:• Youth suicide awareness and

child exploitation service professional ed. plans beginning in 2015-16

• Related Board Policy *Phase 3’s will have to do an amendment*More details forthcoming

Eligible Content Review

http://www.paacademicreview.org/

*Now fully populated for grades 3-8 ELA and Math plus Algebra I and Literature*Please provide input

Chapter 4 FAQ

*Now posted on SAS*Addresses:• Keystone Exam Proficiency• Opt-Outs• Supplemental Instruction• Special Ed & ELLs• Out-of-State Transfers• Waivers

SAS Updates

•The ELA and math glossaries were added to the Core Standards section of SAS.•The English Composition Argumentative Scoring Guideline was posted•The English Composition Informative-Explanatory Combined Scoring Guideline was posted•Early Warning System simulations were posted•New Science VMC resources were added•The Science VMC naming convention was altered. Instead of representing single grade levels, they were updated to reflect grade bands.•An updated video was added to all of the Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) tasks posted on SAS.

Gifted Education and Accelerated PLC on SAS

Reading Apprenticeshi

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*Invitation for Gr. 6-8 ELA, science, & social studies teachers to participate in 10 days of RA PD*NO COST*A flyer and training calendar are posted on the Curriculum Council page.

Real Life, Real Issues:

Drugs & Young People

*WITF’s multimedia series devoted to preventing youth drug abuse*No cost*Add links to your websitehttp://www.witf.org/real/http://real-life-addiction-in-pa.tumblr.com/

Inspirational Videos

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVBcK_IpFVi9s7yDALDX346VSSmWeHGjZ

Transitional Support for

Betsy’s Former Roles

• Educator Effectiveness – Jen Starner• SLO – Amy Garvey• Keystones/PBA – Kristen Baughman-

Gray• PA Core – Bethann McCain• Comprehensive Planning – Jen Starner• PVAAS, SAS, CDT, SPP, eMetric –

Bethann McCain• AP – Jamie Russler & Dr. Dwyer• CPE – Patti Rice & Dr. Dywer

2014-15Meeting Schedule

Jan. 28, 2015

Mar. 25, 2015

Feb. 25, 2015

May 6, 2015

January 28 Meeting – Need to re-schedule??• Last day of the Improving Schools Conference• Reschedule for January 23rd ???

Other Needs,

Questions, or/and

Discussion Items