Unbridled Learning: What Everyone Should Know about P-20 as it Connects to 21st Century Skills

Eve Proffitt, Ed.D.Co-Director, Kentucky P20 Innovation Lab

University of Kentucky

• Unbridled Learning?• 21st Century Skills?• Senate Bill 1 2009?• CHETL?• CIITS?• KCAS/KCASS?• Assessment of/for Learning?• PGES/Edivation?

What Do You Know?

• Introduced and passed 2009• Directed revamping of Kentucky’s assessment and

accountability system• Direct Kentucky postsecondary institutions to plan

and implement a process to develop core academic content standards for reading and mathematics for introductory courses.

Senate Bill 1: KRS 164.302http://education.ky.gov/comm/UL/Pages/default.aspx

• Section 2– Revise state assessment system to be

implemented 2011-12– Variety of assessments including accelerated

learning, criterion-referenced test, end of course examinations, formative assessments, interim assessments, national norm-referenced test

Senate Bill 1 Provisions

– Academic standards• Revision of academic content standards in all

areas• Must consider national standards• Aligned with entry level college course

requirements• Included in teacher preparation programs so

teachers will know how to use them

Section 2

• Writing portfolios required as instructional tools, but not included in accountability system

• No testing in arts & humanities and practical living/career studies

• Assessment consist of annual student assessments and state and local program reviews and audits in writing, practical living/career studies and arts & humanities

• Formative and summative

Section 2 :Assessment

• Diagnostic information use• National comparisons• Longitudinal student data• Use of data by teachers• Use for school accountability• Compliance with NCLB Act

Purposes of Assessment

• Inappropriate Test Preparation has sanctions• May purchase commercial interim

assessments or develop local tests• Accelerated learning for student who indicates

skill deficiency or strength• Alignment of core content on all levels• Individual report to parents

Section 2 Assessment

• Deletes CATS accountability• Requires KBE to determine how new

assessment (KPREP) will classify schools• Revise Accountability

– Must use program review results– Use students’ academic performance– Use school improvement results– Other factors

Section 4

• Professional development programs– Made available to teachers based on their needs– Include strategies to reduce the achievement gaps

among various groups of students – Include strategies to

• Provide continuous progress• Curriculum content and methods of instruction for each content

area including differentiated instruction• School-based decision making• Assessment literacy• Integration of performance based student assessment into daily

classroom instruction

Section 8

• To provide:– Non graded primary programs– Research based instructional practices– Instructional uses of technology– Curriculum design to serve needs of students with diverse

learning styles and skills of students of diverse cultures– Instruction in reading including—phonics, phonemic

awareness, comprehension, fluency and vocabulary– Educational leadership– Strategies to incorporate character education throughout

the curriculum

Section 8 continued

• Requires each postsecondary institution to plan and implement a process to develop core academic content standards for reading and math for introductory courses in public postsecondary education institutions.

Section 15

• Requires EPSB and KDE to improve teachers’ ability to teach writing

• Review of teacher preparation requirements • Review of PD and training for school

administrators

Section 17

Unbridled Learning

• Ky Dept of Education Pageshttp://education.ky.gov/Pages/default.aspx – What students should learn– What will be tested– How subjects will be tested– When tests are given– What should comprise the public school

accountability system– College Career Readiness (CCR)

• Learning Networks• Documents

– Attributes of standards based unit of study– Combined curriculum document– Core Content for Assessment– EPAS connected to College Readiness Standards– ELA deconstructed Standards– Kentucky Core Academic Standards– Kentucky Model Curriculum Framework– Math Deconstructed Standards – NGSS Science Standards

Curriculum Standardshttp://education.ky.gov/curriculum/docs/Pages/default.aspx

Standards

• KCAS: http://education.ky.gov/curriculum/docs/Documents/KCAS%20-%20June%202013.pdf

• ELA Standards: http://education.ky.gov/curriculum/docs/Pages/ELA-Deconstructed-Standards.aspx

• CCR: http://education.ky.gov/educational/CCR/Pages/default.aspx

Standards Cont’d

• Mathematics: http://education.ky.gov/curriculum/docs/Pages/Mathematics-Deconstructed-Standards.aspx

• Curriculum Documents http://education.ky.gov/curriculum/docs/Pages/default.aspx

Meet Each Child’s Needs

• Differentiation: http://education.ky.gov/educational/diff/Pages/default.aspx

• Culturally Responsive Instruction: http://education.ky.gov/educational/diff/Pages/CulturallyResponsiveInstruction.aspx

• ESS Targeted Interventions: http://education.ky.gov/educational/int/Pages/default.aspx

• http://education.ky.gov/curriculum/docs/Pages/Characteristics-of-Highly-Effective-Teaching-and-Learning-(CHETL).aspx

• Learning Climate• Classroom Assessment and Reflection• Instructional Rigor and Student Engagement• Instructional Relevance• Knowledge of Content

Characteristics of Highly Effective Teaching and Learning

• Ky RtI: http://education.ky.gov/educational/int/ksi/Pages/default.aspx

• Districts of Innovation: http://education.ky.gov/school/innov/Pages/Districts-of-Innovation.aspx

• Technology: http://education.ky.gov/districts/tech/Pages/default.aspx

• Tool for pulling standards, instructional materials, lesson plans, assessments, data, and PD into integrated online resource

• One Stop Shop• Includes KCAS (all content areas)• ACT Quality Core• ISTE National Edu Technology Standards• AASL Library Media Standards

Continuous Instructional Improvement Technology System (CIITS)

• Links standards to instructional materials– KET Encyclomedia: Discovery Education– SAS Curriculum Pathways– Thinkfinity

• Common Core 360/Edivation (subscription) – Resources and PD on CCS

• Comprehensive student information and assessment data– reports

CIITS http://education.ky.gov/curriculum/ciits/Pages/default.aspx

• Achievement• Gap• Growth• College Readiness• Graduation Rate• EOC: end of course

– U.S. History– Algebra II– English II– Biology

Assessment Termshttp://education.ky.gov/AA/Pages/default.aspx

• School Report Cards • No Child Left Behind• Assessment Reports• Sample Test Items

Accountability Terms

• Assessment: http://education.ky.gov/AA/Pages/default.aspx

• School Report Cards: http://education.ky.gov/AA/distsupp/Pages/SRC.aspx

• No Child Left Behind: http://www2.ed.gov/policy/elsec/guid/states/index.html

Assessment

• State Assessments: http://education.ky.gov/AA/Assessments/Pages/default.aspx

• Assessment Reports: http://education.ky.gov/AA/Reports/Pages/default.aspx

• Sample Test Items: http://education.ky.gov/AA/items/Pages/default.aspx

Teacher Professional Growth

• PGES: http://education.ky.gov/teachers/PGES/Pages/PGES.aspx

• TPGES: http://education.ky.gov/teachers/PGES/TPGES/Pages/default.aspx

• Kentucky Framework for Teaching: http://education.ky.gov/teachers/PGES/TPGES/Pages/Kentucky-Framework-for-Teaching.aspx

Resources

• EQuIP: http://www.achieve.org/EQuIP • Kentucky Teacher Newsletter:

http://www.kentuckyteacher.org/ • Edivation

PD360 http://www.schoolimprovement.com/products-2/edivation/

• Collaboration• Communication• Creativity and Innovation• Critical thinking and Problem Solving• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRxAuq

BfRNQ 5 minute youtube

• http://www.p21.org/overview/skills-framework web site

21st Century Skills

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Today’s Students Learn and Communicate Differently

What Has Really Changed?

Early 20th Century Classroom

Early 21st Century Classroom

If we teach today's students as we

taught yesterday's, we rob them of

tomorrow.

John Dewey

www.p20lab.org

Eve.proffitt@uky.edu

http://p20.education.uky.edu/

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