Using Results to Get Results

1. Using Results to Get Results State Leadership to Use Student Readiness Indicators Across a P-20 Continuum July 25, 2013 3:30 - 4:30 pm ET

2. Purpose and agenda • The purpose of this webinar is to highlight states’ actions to lift academic achievement, educational attainment, and career success through innovative public reporting from early childhood through postsecondary education and workforce outcomes.   • Introduce key points from Achieve’s recent policy brief, Creating a P-20 Continuum of Actionable Indicators of Student Readiness • Discuss the design philosophy for new Illinois school report cards • Share current and anticipated P-20 reports from Kentucky

3. Introductions • We’re honored that leaders from two states paving the way forward will join the webinar to discuss their current work and plans for P-20 public reporting, and how this work ties into each state’s goals and aspirations for students and the state as a whole: • Illinois State Board of Education • Peter Godard, Chief Performance Officer • Brandon Williams, Performance Data and Accountability • Kentucky Center for Education and Workforce Statistics • Charles McGrew, Executive Director • Kate Akers, Deputy Executive Director

4. Creating a P-20 Continuum of Actionable Indicators of Student Readiness

5. Overview The policy brief is designed to assist state policymakers in crafting a continuum of student readiness indicators, including selecting and prioritizing among a range of potential indicators • Guiding questions include state policy priorities, stakeholder engagement, and coherence and alignment • Suggests potential indicators, and for each, identifies research base, suggests use cases and discusses decision trade-offs • Provides recommendations for states www.achieve.org/Student-Readiness-Indicators

6. Pieces of the Pipeline

7. EXAMPLE: 3rd grade mathematics

8. Recommendations Actions states can take now: • Set statewide performance goals on key indicators • Report results to the public • Incentivize progress • Use in systems to differentiate and classify schools • Continuously improve quality of indicators • Partner to improve accessibility and coherence of reporting For more resources on CCR public reporting, please see: www.achieve.org/public-reporting

9. ILLINOIS NEW SCHOOL REPORT CARDS – Overview and Design Philosophy

10. Report Card History • Decades of compliance reporting • Illinois Interactive Report Card • Minimal reach and impact on students • Recent reform legislation driving new report card

11. New Philosophy • Theory of Action: Who, What, and Why • Goals • Families, educators and the public have a shared understanding of school performance enabled by an easily accessible report card that includes multiple dimensions of school performance and environment • Family and community engagement improves through school leaders’ use of the new report card and through additional engagement support provided to RttT districts • Stakeholders at all levels (state, regional and local) refer to report card measures for purposes of accountability and measuring program effectiveness thereby improving alignment of purpose throughout the system

12. Engagement & Communications • Extensive work led by P20 Council, Advance Illinois, and Boston Consulting Group • Steering Committee • Integrated Communications Strategy

13. Design Considerations • Holistic view of school environment • User-friendly, intuitive data displays with drill-downs for analytics users • Totally revamped visual appearance • Website and one-pagers

14. Roll-out • Communications Toolkits • Webinar Series • RttTEngagement Strategy Meetings • Launch on October 31 • Surveys • Performance Metric Baselining

15. Questions? Peter Godard, pgodard@isbe.net Brandon Williams, bwilliam@isbe.net

16. July 25th, 2013 Kentucky Reports from Early Childhood through Postsecondary/Workforce

17. What is the Center? Board • Objective source of data that links early childhood, k-12, teacher certification, postsecondary, adult education workforce and other data to provide a better picture of the overall impact of state policies and practices. • Located in the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet, Office of the Secretary • Created in December 2012 by Executive Order and ratified into law in 2013 legislative session • Maintain the Kentucky Longitudinal Data System • Continues the work of the P-20 Data Collaborative

18. How does it work? Data Sources Data Users KDE K-12 Students Teachers/Staff Agencies 24/7 Secure Data Collection, Processing, and Matching De-Identified Reporting System KLDS DRS State EPSB Teacher Cert. CPE Postsecondary Adult Education Researchers Workforce UI Wages/Claims Workforce Invest. Center Staff Early Childhood Reports via Web Portal Public P-20 Staff

19. Data Scope • Current • K-12 Student • K-12 Teachers & Staff • Public & Independent Postsecondary Teacher/Educator Certification • In-State Employment and Earnings (UI) • Early childhood & Kindergarten Readiness • Future • Financial Aid • Head Start • Unemployment • Proprietary Colleges • Children & Family Services • Apprenticeships • Out-of-State and Military Employment • Out-of-State Postsecondary

20. Early Childhood Profile • Worked extensively with Early Childhood Advisory Council to develop this profile • Kindergarten readiness data • Participation in publicly funded preschool, head start and childcare • Quality and availability of child care and the education of the early childhood work force • Demographic data provided representing key indicators of possible barriers to success for young children and their families • Participation in public health and social service programs

21. Kentucky Kindergarten Readiness

22. High School Feedback Reports • Worked with focus groups of educators, superintendents, parents, school boards, etc. to create report • High school graduation rates • College going rates (in-state public and independent, in-state private, and out-of-state public or private) • College going rates by race, economic groups, and special education • College readiness by subject area. • Complete list of all the colleges and universities where graduates attended. • 2013 Report also includes 1st year college success

23. Percentage of 2010 Public HS Grads Ready for College Level English, Math, and Reading

24. Employment and Earnings Report • Instate employment and earnings by credential level, major/program and industry • Includes graduates from all Kentucky’s public and independent instate colleges • Institution level summary data provided to every 2-year, 4-year public and independent college • Employment considered a proxy for out-migration

25. Median Wages by Credential Level in 2010-11

26. Median Wages by Credential Level and Academic Major 2010-11 26

27. Future Reports Adult education feedback report College, transfer and employment feedback report 2014-15 County Profile Teacher preparation outcomes

28. Questions? Charles McGrew, PhD charles.mcgrew@ky.gov Kate Akers, PhD kate.akers@ky.gov

29. Achieve contacts • Cory Curl, Senior Fellow, Assessment and Accountability • ccurl@achieve.org | 202-308-6640 • Anne Bowles, Senior Policy Associate • abowles@achieve.org| 202-419-1553

30. Using Results to Get Results State Leadership to Use Student Readiness Indicators Across a P-20 Continuum July 25, 2013 3:30 - 4:30 pm ET