Ready for STAAR Leading Forward in Times of Change

1. Ready for STAAR Leading Forward in Times of Change

2. Goals • Accountability for the sake of STAAR • Review the STAAR design and standards • Connect STAAR • to the curriculum • to the data from TAKS • to units in the curriculum • to professional development • to leadership • Rethink local assessment • Plan!

3. Do I teach TAKS? Or do I teach STAAR?

4. It’s ALL about the TEKS

5. Students LEARN TEKS Curr. Docs. ORGANIZE STAAR ASSESSES Teachers TEACH Leaders MONITOR

6. Accountability

8. 2011 State Accountability Changes • Commended Performance • Reading/ELA and Math • All Students and Economically Disadvantaged • 15% for Recognized / 25 % for Exemplary • No RI, TPM or Exceptions • ELL Progress • Current + Monitored LEP (≥ 2 years in U.S. schools) • 60% for Recognized or Exemplary

9. Commended Data • VERY rough approximation of passing STAAR • Focus on advanced performance • Identify curriculum gaps • Identify high-performing teachers

10. ELL Progress Data • Academic vocabulary • Rigor of expectations

14. STAAR

15. STAAR (grounding our work) • What is it? • How is like good learning? • Which tests will we give? • Where do I find the information? • What about tests for English Language Learners and students with disabilities?

16. What do we know about STAAR? • Will begin in 2011-12 • Grades 3 through 8 • First year 9th graders and below (Gr. 8, 7, 6, etc.) • Will be “significantly more rigorous” than TAKS

17. What do we know about STAAR? • Will measure student performanceAND academic growth • Grade 3-8 STAAR tests in Reading and Math will be linked (from grade to grade) to performance expectations for • English III STAAR and • Algebra II STAAR

18. p. 7 . . . the tests The high school level STAAR tests are COURSE tests, NOT grade level tests

19. Reading/Writing • Reading and writing for information • Inferential thinking • Concise/precise writing • Genre Social Studies • New TEKS • Assessed Curriculum • Higher passing standard • Vetting instructional materials Science • Cumulative issues • Instructional materials • Differentiation in HS Math • Novelty • New TEKS on the horizon

20. Key Cognitive Skills • Intellectual curiosity • Reasoning • Problem solving • Foundational Skills • Reading across the curriculum • Writing across the curriculum • Use of data

21. State ofTexasAssessment ofAcademicReadiness

22. What does it mean to be an assessment of academic readiness?

23. TAKS • Did I learn what I was supposed to learn in 4th grade?

24. STAAR • Did I learn what I was supposed to learn in 4thgrade? • Am I ready for 5th grade? • And 6th grade?

25. What does it mean to be a teacher of academic readiness?

26. TAKS • Did I learn what I was supposed to learn in 8th grade?

27. STAAR • Did I learn what I was supposed to learn in 8thgrade? • Am I ready for English I? • And English II?

28. What does it mean to be a teacher of academic readiness?

29. STAAR Performance Standards • Higher than TAKS • Set first for English III and Algebra II • Linked to college readiness • Linked by grade level down to 3rd grade

30. STAAR Performance Standards • Higher than TAKS • Set first for English III and Algebra II • Linked to college readiness • Linked by grade level down to 3rd grade

31. STAAR Performance Standards • Higher than TAKS • Set first for English III and Algebra II • Linked to college readiness • Linked by grade level down to 3rd grade • Standard-setting committees and policy review committees • Reviewed every 3 years • Validity studies

32. STAAR Performance Standards “Did I pass?” • Timeline • EOC STAAR: February 2012 • Grade 3-8 STAAR: Fall 2012

33. STAAR Performance Categories (02/07/2011) * Accomplished Academic Performance for STAAR Alternate ** Additional Minimum Score to be applicable to Cumulative Score Requirements for Graduation

34. TAKS is horizontal • Learning builds between grades • Learning DEPENDS on earlier grades • Intervention areas are easier to identify • Differentiation is predictable STAAR is vertical!

37. TEA Resources • Assessed Curriculum Documents • STAAR Blueprints • Released TAKS • Overviews • Rubrics and Design

38. What about “other” versions of STAAR? • Accommodated/Accommodations • Modified • HS issues and graduation plan • Alternate • HS issues and graduation plan • Linguistically Accommodated Tests • Most grades/subjects (not just NCLB) • Revisions to LEP exemptions • Spanish (3-5)

39. STAAR Accommodated Not a separate test • STAAR will be in Verdana font, larger type, more white space • Accommodations WILL be allowed on STAAR • SpEd • 504 • Dyslexia (Gr. 3 through Eng. III) Accommodated Tests (Separate Test Form and Booklet) 2006-2010

40. STAAR Modified and STAAR Alternate STAAR Modified and STAAR Alternate for ALL grades and subjects STAAR Modified and STAAR Alternate for all courses required for graduation under Minimum Plan

41. TTWWADI • What do we need to do? • Who’s gonna do it? • When are we gonna do it?

42. What if we reversed our thinking? • When are we gonna do it? • Who’s gonna do it? • What do we need to do? • Now who’s gonna do it?

43. p. 17 Reality Check

45. The Leadership Team • Administrators • Teacher leaders • High levels of attainment (% passing) • Rigor • % scoring commended • commended growth • Growth • Vertical scale score growth • Increase in % passing

46. Words matter! • Getting the word “kind of right” doesn’t necessarily help! • Must have a common vocabulary

48. Standards, Standards Everywhere • Curriculum Standards (TEKS) • Readiness • Supporting • Process • Assessment Standards • Passing Standards or Performance Standards • Accountability Standards • Pass Rate Standards

49. p. 23 STAAR Word Wall Assessed Curriculum Readiness Standard Supporting Standard Process Standard Reporting Category

50. CHORAL READINGPlease repeat after me Focus Clarity Depth