Data Teams: Balanced Assessment, Collaboration, Common Instruction, and Common Sense
June 27, 9 – 11:30am, Room: Union B&C
The past two years have taught us that regardless of the economy, knowledge is a person’s most valuable asset. Teachers are more important than ever. It’s time to recognize that teachers, working together in small groups, have the capacity to raise student achievement. This workshop will demonstrate how teachers and administrators can grab this opportunity and discard much of what they do now in exchange for Balanced Assessment, Collaboration, Common Instruction, and Common Sense.
Main Presenter: Mike White, Educational Consulting Services
Data Teams: Balanced Assessment, Collaboration, Common Instruction, and Common Sense
1. The Cure For The Common Core!
Data Teams: Balanced
Assessment, Collaboration,
Common Instruction, and
Common Sense
2. Nonsense
Our current system isn t one --- Martyrdom or
Looking for a Genius
Bad Teacher Boogeyman
Teacher Problem vs. Teaching Problem
3. Good News
More HS students are taking college prep classes.
Teacher Quality continues to improve.
After more than a decade of fairly flat achievement
and stagnant or growing gaps, we appear to be turning
the corner.
4. 4th Grade Reading:
Record Performance with Gap
Narrowing
9 Year Olds ‒ NAEP Reading
250
240
230
Average Scale Score
220
210
200
190
180
170
160 African American Latino White
150
1971* 1975* 1980* 1984* 1988* 1990* 1992* 1994* 1996* 1999* 2004 2008
*Denotes previous assessment format
NAEP 2008 Trends in Academic Progress, NCES
5. 4th Grade Math:
Record Performance with Gap
Narrowing
9 Year Olds ‒ NAEP Math
250
240
230
Average Scale Score
220
210
200
190
180
170
160 African American Latino White
150
1973* 1978* 1982* 1986* 1990* 1992* 1994* 1996* 1999* 2004 2008
*Denotes previous assessment format
NAEP 2008 Trends in Academic Progress, NCES
6. 8th Grade Reading: Recent Gap
Narrowing for Blacks, Less for Latinos
300
13 Year Olds ‒ NAEP Reading
290
280
270
Average Scale Score
260
250
240
230
220
210
African American Latino White
200
1971* 1975* 1980* 1984* 1988* 1990* 1992* 1994* 1996* 1999* 2004 2008
*Denotes previous assessment format
NAEP 2008 Trends in Academic Progress, NCES
7. 8th Grade Math:
Progress for All Groups, Some Gap
Narrowing
13 Year Olds ‒ NAEP Math
300
290
280
Average Scale Score
270
260
250
240
230
220
210 African American Latino White
200
1973* 1978* 1982* 1986* 1990* 1992* 1994* 1996* 1999* 2004 2008
*Denotes previous assessment format
NAEP 2008 Trends in Academic Progress, NCES
8. Not So Good News---Standards, Students and
Scrutiny
The Typical Classroom
11 of the 30 students will live in poverty
10 of the students will be non-White
12 of the student s primary language will not be English
(one of 150 languages spoken in the US)
6 will not be reared by their biological parents
1 will be homeless
6 will move at least 4 times before grade 7
U.S. Department of Education Census Bureau
9. Expectations
When we really focus on
something, we can change
it - we can fix it!
10. Reality-Bad News
No longer a job you can do by yourself
Harder Standards
Harder Students
Harder Scrutiny
11. Back mapping
Traditional standards started with kindergarten and
then added years of work on top of those (and have
focused heavily on existing curricula and notions of
development)
The common standards began with college and career
readiness standards and then back mapped from there
This makes these standards more challenging than
past standards̶especially at the early grades
12. David Coleman Said
Teachers must train students to be workers in
the Global Economy. It is rare in a working
environment that someone says, Johnson, I
need a market analysis by Friday but before that I
need a compelling account of your childhood.
Translation to the classroom .
14. Unwrap the Common Core Standards
Old Standard ..RECOGNIZE main ideas
presented in texts
Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or
stanzas fits together to provide the overall
structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.
Analyze how visual and multimedia elements
contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text
15. Of the 100 Students Starting
9th Grade this Fall
90 will make it to 10th grade
81 will make it to 11th grade
76 will make it to 12th grade
73 will graduate on-time
33 will graduate from college
Source: Ed Week, EPE Research Center, Diploma Counts 2007, uses the Cumulative Promotion Index (CPI).
16. African American and Latino
17 Year-Olds Perform at Same Levels
As White 13 Year-Olds
100%
Percent of Students
0%
150 200 250 300 350
Average Scale Score
White 13 Year-Olds African American 17 Year-Olds Latino 17 Year-Olds
Note: Long-Term Trends NAEP
Source: National Center for Education Statistics, NAEP 2007 Trends in Academic Progress
17. Our Knowing Doing Gap
Boatloads of schools and studies attest to the
power of systems that create and maintain
effective teachers through balanced
assessment and collaboration. And yet: the
typical school or district improvement plan
takes us in an entirely different direction.
21. Conditions & Expectations
District =
97%
District = 92%
District = 93%
New data: Research shows an increase in these risk factors is
associated with a decrease in student achievement .
22. Fall/Winter DIBELS 2010-11
100
6
15 14 14
90
26 24 26 26
29
36 23 38
80 11 43
19 18
70
12
18 21
60 29
25 35 11
50 24 Intensive
Strategic
40
71 74 Benchmark
67 68
30 62
56 55
45 46
20 39 38
35
10
0
K Fall
2 Winter
3 Winter
4 Winter
5 Winter
1 Winter
K Winter
1 Fall
2 Fall
3 Fall
4 Fall
5 Fall
24. Ira Flect
Will ask himself: What
do I need to do, what do
I need to change to
make sure my students
succeed? Heck, It s not
like I ve been saving my
good lesson plans until
somebody caught me!
25. Raise Our IQ (Ira Quotient)
Create a system that s a balance of good data and
effective adult responses.
Small groups of teachers collaborating and using
assessments and technology to improve instruction.
26. What We Know
Collaborative Cultures using big and small
assessments can improve schools. Teachers
should not have to work in isolation like
independent contractors from the 1950 s
Everyone benefits when small groups of
teachers are actively analyzing and comparing
data & practices
27. What We Know:
It s All About Teaching
The Powerful 23/49 Statistic
Principal Effectiveness ̶ 23%
Teaching Effectiveness̶ 49%
Economics, Ethnicity, Language ̶ 24%
Teachers are The Main Thing
Truth in Bumper Stickers!
28. Students Who Start 2nd Grade at About
the Same Level of Math Achievement
100
Average Percentile Rank
80
55 57
60
40
20
0
Group 1 Group 2
Beginning of 3rd Grade
Source: Heather Jordan, Robert Mendro, and Dash Weerasinghe, The Effects of Teachers on Longitudinal Student
Achievement, 1997.
29. Finish 5th Grade Math at Dramatically Different Levels
Depending on the Quality of Their Teachers
100
Average Percentile Rank
77
80
55 57
60
40
27
20
0
Group 1 Assigned to Three Group 2 Assigned to Three
EFFECTIVE Teachers INEFFECTIVE Teachers
Beginning of 2nd Grade End of 5th Grade
Source: Heather Jordan, Robert Mendro, and Dash Weerasinghe, The Effects of Teachers on Longitudinal Student
Achievement, 1997.
30. In Effective Schools, teaching
practice is not regarded as a matter
of individual teachers taste and
preference but a matter for serious
inquiry and discussion and
common expectations
Elmore in Simmons, J. (2006), Breaking Through:
Transforming Urban Schools
34. Collective Intelligence
(men̶put your cell phones down)
How big is the moon?
The moon is about _______miles across.
How far is it from Earth to the moon?
It is about _________ miles from Earth to the
moon.
How old is the moon?
The moon is the same age as the Earth and
the rest of the solar system ̶ about ____billion
years. Our solar system was all formed at that
time.
35. Collective Intelligence
How big is the moon?
The moon is about 2,000 miles across.
How far is it from Earth to the moon?
It is about 250,000 miles from Earth to the moon.
How old is the moon?
The moon is the same age as the Earth and the rest of
the solar system ̶ about 4.5 billion years. Our solar
system was all formed at that time.
36. What Are Design Teams?
Small grade-level or department teams that
examine individual student work generated
from common formative (pre and post)
assessments
Collaborative, structured, scheduled meetings
that focus on the effectiveness of teaching and
learning
37. Design Teams What They Are
and What They Aren t
Can I sit in on one of your classes?
Battle ships and Ice Cream
Flow Charts and Book Clubs
38. Vertical Design/Data Team
M iddle School Department Team/Small School Team
Grade 6(K) M ath Teachers
Grade 7(1) M ath Teachers
Grade 8 (2)M ath Teachers
See page 63
40. Balanced Assessment Model
1. Develop or Revise Monthly
Curriculum Calendars
Commit to teach the bad news
standards and the long and
lingering standards at the
2. Develop and Administer
6. Analyze Post-Assessment same time Common Pre-Assessments
data. Develop a timeline
Find out what your students
Plan interventions for
students who did not master
know
the standard.
Plan how you will tweak your
lesson for next year.
When your summative
data comes back, uncover
your success stories
and honest bad news.
5. Develop and Administer 3. Analyze Pre-Assessment data
Common Post-Assessment Identify student barriers
strengths and interests
Feedback for administrators,
teachers and students Develop Instructional
Prove Learning Strategies and Lesson
Use data to improve
instruction
4. Teach Teach Teach Teach
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41. When your summative data comes back,
uncover your success stories and honest bad
news.
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42. Celebrate and then Collaborate!
Math Computation
Social Studies - Resource
Allocation
Math Concepts & Estimation
Science - Earth and Space
43. Too much to do! I can t think
about how to teach I have to
think about what to teach and
when I will get it all in.
Design Teams Do Not Address
All The Indicators!
48. Testing to Prove vs.
Testing to Improve --- Formative Assessment
taken to it s Logical Conclusion is a Pre Test
The true purpose of assessment must be, first
and foremost, to improve instruction
Tell us:
What students know
What students don t know
What they want to know----
Not after instruction has started or finished̶before it
has begun!
49. Pre Assessments
Provide Clarity and Feedback to Teachers and
Students. The best operational definition of a
standard are the questions we use to assess it.
Fairness̶allow us to see growth and make
teacher comparison. Probably the best way to
measure teaching success.
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50. Here s what s so wrong about doing what seems right-----
only using Interim/Benchmark Tests (Unbalanced)
51. Here s what s so wrong about doing what seems right̶this
is what happens when teachers use the system they have
been given
56. Step 3: Identify student barriers, strengths and
interests and develop / select appropriate
instructional strategies and lesson
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57. Step 4: Teach Using Your New and Improved
Lesson
Task 1: How much to get in? Gator Pie
Travis and Martin are two friends that are at the
fair. Their moms gave them different amounts of Dad gave me a dollar
money to spend. Travis has $6. Martin has $8.
When they got to the fair, they found that it
costs $1 to get in.
In the boxes, draw pictures showing the part of for group 1 use
fraction land flags̶grade 2 lesson
$6 that Travis spent and the part of $8 that
Martin spent to get in to the fair. Then write the
parts as fractions.
The fraction of the money Travis spent: _____________
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58. Step 5: Administer Common Post-Assessment̶
to Prove Learning and Measure Growth
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59. Step 6: Analyze Post-Assessment data.
What s your backup plan for students who did
not master the standard?
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60.
61. Rinse Lather -‐ Repeat
1. Develop or Revise Monthly
Curriculum Calendars
Commit to teach the bad news
standards and the long and
lingering standards at the
2. Develop and Administer
6. Analyze Post-Assessment same time Common Pre-Assessments
data. Develop a timeline
Find out what your students
Plan interventions for
students who did not master
know
the standard.
Plan how you will tweak your
lesson for next year.
When your summative
data comes back, uncover
your success stories
and honest bad news.
5. Develop and Administer 3. Analyze Pre-Assessment data
Common Post-Assessment Identify student barriers
strengths and interests
Feedback for administrators,
teachers and students Develop Instructional
Prove Learning Strategies and Lesson
Use data to improve
instruction
4. Teach Teach Teach Teach
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62. Time to Break Up Thanks!
Mike White
ECS
White_ecs@fuse.net