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
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