As leading statewide organizations committed to innovation, equity, and continuous learning, The Colorado Education Initiative (CEI) and Colorado Department of Education (CDE) are streamlining efforts to support
districts around assessment, instruction, and personalized learning in ways that have lasting systems impact.
Not exact matches
SNA's Keys to Excellence is a state of the art online self -
assessment tool that allows you to compare your school nutrition program's performance with other
districts in your area and
around the country.
Other strategies LACES faculty has used include participating in
district - supported site leadership for closing the achievement gap; designing opportunities for teacher collaboration
around increasingly common
assessments; and offering professional development for highly differentiated instruction, noted the California Best Practices Study.
For example, a
district might arrange to provide targeted schools with materials online to work
around book shortages or improve dramatically their access to interim
assessment data.
The MET project will enroll 3,700 teachers from a number of school
districts around the country and will gather a variety of data, including videotaped teacher observations, student surveys, teacher surveys, and supplemental student
assessments.
«Across the country, states,
districts, and educators are leading the way in developing innovative
assessments that measure students» academic progress; promote equity by highlighting achievement gaps, especially for our traditionally underserved students; and spur improvements in teaching and learning for all our children,» stated U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. «Our proposed regulations build on President Obama's plan to strike a balance
around testing, providing additional support for states and
districts to develop and use better, less burdensome
assessments that give a more well - rounded picture of how students and schools are doing, while providing parents, teachers, and communities with critical information about students» learning.»
In New York, Commissioner of Education David M. Steiner and the state board of regents this month put forward a broad package of changes that would include revamping the state's standards - and -
assessment system, raising the cap on the number of charter schools, allowing additional institutions to train teachers and principals, and setting new demands for
districts to turn
around low - performing schools.
New evaluation systems, new standards, online
assessments, personalized staff development, data driven decision - making and many more — in the last few years,
districts around the country have had to adopt and integrate an increasing number of initiatives.
The on - demand privacy
assessment system created by EdPrivacy allows administrators to manage their obligations
around data privacy with increased transparency and accountability and to communicate with parents about the software their students are using in the
district.
At CCE, we are doing our small part with our Massachusetts Personalized Learning Network, comprised of urban public in -
district schools that are designed
around 21st - century innovative principles such as competency - based progression, anytime / anywhere and engaged learning, personal learning pathways, and robust performance
assessments.
Sharing this information broadly will hold our state and our schools accountable for having well - thought - out
assessment plans with our students» needs at their core.This much - needed transparency
around student testing will also help schools and
districts to learn best practices from one another about how best to gather the data educators need without sacrificing the instruction time so vital to student learning.
To get a sense of what is working in
districts around the country, we asked educators to share the technology tools that they are using to help implement CCSS and prepare students for the upcoming
assessments.
Many
districts around the country are working to counter that lack of arts
assessments, with either traditional paper - and - pencil tests, performance - based
assessments, or alternative measures.
These include: · Use of instructional programs and curricula that support state and
district standards and of high quality testing systems that accurately measure achievement of the standards through a variety of measurement techniques · Professional development to prepare all teachers to teach to the standards · Commitment to providing remedial help to children who need it and sufficient resources for schools to meet the standards · Better communication to school staff, students, parents and the community about the content, purposes and consequences of standards · Alignment of standards,
assessment and curricula, coupled with appropriate incentives for students and schools that meet the standards In the unlikely event that all of these efforts, including a change in school leadership, fail over a 3 - year period to «turn the school
around,» drastic action is required.
In order to build a curriculum, instruction, and
assessment system, the
district must first have a curriculum in place — a set of common learning expectations that the
district has coalesced
around and accepted as the expected learnings for ALL
district students.
Naomi coaches and plans professional development with
district administrators; she conducts workshops on data analysis,
assessment and differentiation
around the world.
The
district will share lessons learned from best practices
around bring your own device implementation, equipping buses with Wi - Fi, and its creation of Beyond Textbooks, a comprehensive program that supports curriculum, instruction,
assessment, and multi-level interventions.
Implementation started in several
districts around the country this fall, and most states should have the standards in place by the 2014 - 15 school year, when
assessment tools tailored to the new requirements are rolled out.
Additionally, if kindergarten language arts curriculum and
assessment are designed
around these benchmarks,
districts will be compelled to focus classroom time and attention on these skills rather than on developmentally appropriate literacy skills and activities.
Previously we worked with the
district to provide training
around the use of our leadership competency
assessment and coaching tool (the Leadership Performance Planning Worksheet) for leadership coaches and
district administrators.
This Framework is intended for use by teachers, schools, and
districts, as well as researchers and policymakers, to help inform decisions
around assessment, accountability, curriculum, instruction, professional development, program design and resource allocation.
However, since participation in 2014 - 15 was substantially below the standard, please submit a detailed action plan by March 11, 2016 as to the steps the
district is taking / will take to more fully engage teachers, students, parents, and the entire school community
around the purpose and nature of the state
assessment.
She was a member of a
district - wide writing team to develop rubrics and
assessment and a part of her school's Social Emotional Learning team to create curriculum
around character development.
The ASV lets you privately input data you collect about the
assessments administered in your state,
district, school, or classroom, and then immediately creates data visualizations
around key variables and / or questions, to illuminate patterns in how balanced, comprehensive, or broadly / narrowly focused the
assessment system as a whole is.
School
districts around the country use high - quality
assessments that do not require high - stakes standardized tests.
Designed for use in schools and
districts around the world, this free tool offers educators a comprehensive and completely online needs
assessment.