Iowa CoreAlignment Session 3

ImplementationJanuary 2011

Sue UpdegraffKeystone AEA

Preparing for INITIAL Alignment

First Pass

by July 1, 2012

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Purpose: Enacted to Intended

Independent Reflection

One Course/Subject/Grade to one skill set = 90 minutes

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Background Information for Teachers

Multi-Pass Experiences with Essential Concepts/Skills

Curriculum Terms

Alignment Terms and Chart

District Curriculum Framework/Schema

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Outcome 4 of the PLAN

“District leaders and teachers monitor and use data to increase the degree of alignment of each and every student’s enacted curriculum to the Iowa CORE (intended).”

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Not evaluative or judgmental

Collective effort needed

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Future PassesContent depth

o cognitive complexityo emphasis

Assessment

Instruction/Strategies

Resources7

First PassEnacted (taught) to

intended (Iowa CORE)

Horizontal

Topical

Fine-grained

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Process for First Pass1. Review Background

Information

2. Identify Skill Set(s) for Reflection

3. Identify Support Documents (enacted diary, lesson plan, etc.)

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Process for First Pass4. Basics of Coding

determining extent of current agreement between enacted and intended (agreement vs. align)

“Did I teach this?”

document what actually happened, not what was “suppose” to happen

no extra points for high agreement

professionalism

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Process for First Pass

5. Key Alignment Question

What did students get the opportunity to learn during the school year?

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Guidelines1. Sameness

one-to-one correspondencedig into each line of Iowa

COREexplicitly covered

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Guidelines2. No squinting (thinking really

hard)

3. Time limit (short)

4. Simple yes or no about whether students “had the opportunity to learn”

5. Follow “Cheat Sheet”13

Tutorialand

Demonstration

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Engage in Coding

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What Happens After First Pass?

Collect and Analyze Data of Measured Alignment/Agreement

Decisions/Plan based on Datagapsoverlaps

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Database of Coverage

Action through PLCs

Pedagogy, assessment and related issues in future

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PLC Plan

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