office of education improvement and innovation update mascd march 26, 2015
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Office of Education Improvement and Innovation UpdateMASCDMarch 26, 2015
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What’s New?• Educator Effectiveness
• Role of the State Director of 21st Century Learning
• Science and Social Studies Standards
• Emphasis on Reading
• Early Childhood Initiatives
• What’s Working with the SSoS
• Student Inspiration Project
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Educator Effectiveness• Current Legislation
– Nothing introduced at this point
• What’s Should a District be Doing?– Current law
– Current Practice
– Issues – measuring growth
• Student Learning Objectives– Draft being completed
– Roll outs planned for Summer/Fall
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Role of State Director of 21st Century Learning• Lead development of 21st century instructional strategies
• Lead development of integration of technology into instruction
• Lead development of use of data by teachers to inform more personalized instruction for each student based on student need
• Aggressively move the agenda of personalized learning and individualization forward
• Organizational chart
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Science and Social Studies Standards• Science
– Legislative Report and Visits
– Taking the standards to the State Board of Education (SBE) by June 2015
• Social Studies– Following the same pattern with SBE as the science
standards
– Presentations so far on overall instructional concept and assessment.
– April – Teacher preparation and professional learning
– May – Open period of public comment
– June – Adoption
– Meanwhile……
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Emphasis on Reading• Reading has been on the Governor’s
dashboard since he first took office
• Supporting that work with funds – in proposed budget
• OEII supports will focus on intentional instruction
• Linked to math
• Linked to MTSS
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What do we mean by early literacy?• Goal of this initiative: To have an approach/system statewide
that ensures that schools and districts have:– The ability to offer high-quality instruction in literacy (ELA) and
numeracy to ALL students
– The ability and tools to diagnose when students are falling behind, particularly in foundational areas of early literacy
– The ability and tools to intervene with those students
To support early literacy development, we need:• A multi-tiered system of support that can:
– Provide high-quality instruction to all students,
– Diagnose when students fall behind AND
– Provide research-based interventions to help get them back on track
High-quality instruction for all students
To do this, we need:
1) Rigorous standards – Michigan has high-quality standards for both early childhood
and K-12.
– We need to continue to implement the standards and keep them aligned between early childhood and K-12
2) Support for educators– Provide ongoing, research-based innovative professional
learning to ensure educators have these tools
– Assess new educators on their ability to teach the foundational areas of literacy
Multi-tiered system of supports• The state can help by providing a structure and a
system that helps measure where students are at
• Two types of measurements:– Diagnostic measurements: These are shorter, more regular
instruments meant to figure out where students are succeeding and where they need additional supports.
– Data on student performance before third grade
– Currently third grade is the first time we measure student proficiency in reading at a statewide level
– We need to understand:
– A student’s readiness to access those content standards in kindergarten
– A student’s performance in English language arts in first and second grades.
– These measures help us remediate the problem before third grade.
Why professional learning is needed?• Ongoing professional learning on how to teach early literacy
– To ensure that all Michigan teachers have knowledge, skills and ongoing exposure to best practices and developments in the field of reading
• Ongoing professional learning on how to use the data
– From diagnostic tools to understand where students are performing
– From assessment data to measure progress
– What do the data tell you as a teacher, and what decisions can it support?
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TRIG• E-Rate
• SEN
• MTRAX
• Classroom Readiness
• Device Purchasing
• Data Integration
• Assessment and Curriculum
• Data Services
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TRIG• Direct to Districts:
– Over $14.5 million in participation funds
– Over $5.0 million in SPOT bids for device purchasing
– Over $1.5 million to support participation in Classroom Readiness Activity
• Savings Realized:– Over $10 million Device Purchasing discounts and professional
development offerings provided by vendors
– Over $2.5 million for the equivalent of a three-credit course for 1673 teachers taking the T3 Classroom Readiness course
– Over $1.5 million as a result of E-Rate Activity and districts were able to increase bandwidth by 240%
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TRIG• Serving 96% of Michigan students
• 3846 teachers enrolled in the T3 course through Classroom Readiness
• 118,065 devices purchased through Device Purchasing
• 78% of schools and 48% of districts are test ready as indicated by MTRAX data
• Actual planned test participation is 82% of schools
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Early Childhood Initiatives• Kindergarten Entry Assessment (KEA)
• Early Literacy and Math
• Competency-based learning and badges
• Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge
• Title I/31a Collaboration
• Impact Study
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What’s Working with MiEXCEL• Over the past five years 330 schools have
been identified in the lowest 5% on the Top to Bottom List.
• Districts closed 66 of these schools for academic and other reasons, allowing students to select higher quality schools in their systems or externally.
• Of the 92 schools first identified on the 2010 PLA (persistently lowest achieving) list, only 21 remained in the bottom 5% by 2014. Of the 41 added from the 2011 PLA list, only 6 remain in the bottom 5%.
• Of the schools identified in 2010-13, 105 (about 1/3) were never identified for a second time in subsequent years’ PLA/Priority lists.
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What’s Working with MiEXCEL• 14 of these schools subsequently made the Reward
school list in later years for making some of the greatest progress in the state.
• Personnel in 43 of Michigan’s 56 ISDs have been trained to support Priority and/or Focus school districts in implementing deep diagnostic analyses of data and implementation strategies. This statewide capacity has also supported non-Priority schools in implementing data-based decision-making and multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) to support learning.
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What’s Working with MIExcel
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What’s Working with MIExcel
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Student Inspiration Project• Designed to engage students in the
importance of school
• Based on market research data
• Gathered information from:– 1000 matched pairs of parents and students
– 500 teachers
– Principals
– 50 superintendents
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Kids are too-ready to give themselves a “pass”
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Content isn’t delivered in ways that inspire engagementKids believe that academic achievement and classroom engagement put social standing at risk
Students are not convinced that the content being taught in school is meaningful
Shared data that showed students know their disengagement is a problem and it can be traced to four
main causes:
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Parents recognize kids are in control
Expect “just for me” options
Expect to engage on their own terms
Independent consumers, expect to be wooed
All in the context of this being the most empowered generation ever
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Our Goals:Help Ensure the Success of Reform Initiatives, Especially Among those Eligible for Title I funds by:
Building student enthusiasm for school and learning1Strengthening the bonds among stakeholder
groups2Motivating stakeholder groups to play their role across the breadth of school challenges and changes3
Giving Students a Voice423
Since We Last Met:Determined a need for something bold to grab the hearts and minds of
kids and change the way they feel about school
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AN INTEGRATED CAMPAIGN ALMOST WORST IDEAS
FOR EXAMPLE…25
The End Goal:
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Give kids agency in their own education
When kids are empowered, they will engage
And when kids engage, they learn
MICHIGAN STUDENT INSPIRATION PROJECT
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MICHIGAN STUDENT INSPIRATION PROJECT
• 10-14 year olds• Urban AND Rural –
socio-economically disadvantaged
• The largest educational disconnect – both academically and socially
• They are all tech connected, with access to video games, laptops, smart phones, etc.
Who are the students we need to reach first?
Year 1 Launch• Create website, cast vignettes,
develop game app
• In-School: posters, clings, reward stickers – rolled out to select, opt-in, schools first, spreading to full districts, as requested
• At-home: bumper stickers, magnets, lunch notes, t-shirts
• Stakeholder Outreach: Conferences, webinars and communication to education and parent associations• Michigan Education Alliance consulted and
included at key stages of this work
Macomb
144 elementary schools/53 middle
and junior high schools
93,840 students
Oakland
210 elementary schools/76 middle
and junior high schools
135,738 studentsWayne
386 elementary schools/130 middle
and junior high schools
226,215 students
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Other Initiatives
• Multi-tiered System of Support (MTSS)
• School Improvement
• State Technology Plan
• Integration of Content
• Competency Based Pathways and Reporting
• Individualized Student Learning
• Flexible Learning Options
• Badges
• First Robotics
• Teacher Recognition Programs
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Questions
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