BCIC Meeting

November, 2012

Please sit by Regional

Scoring Cluster

Welcome• Introductions• Overview of Agenda

SED Updates• 3-8 Assessment

– Testing guides are overdue– Format change announcement impending– Authentic text rules have changed– Change in tools rules for math: No calculator

for Book 1 grades 6-8– There will be training this year

SED Updates• Global

– Looks like it will be split– Different options; field will be surveyed– Maybe 2015-2016

ITD

CI&A Upcoming events• ELA Leadership Network - Dec 10• CCLS for ELA: Instructional Shifts for

Literacy- Dec 14

• Register through My Learning Plan

CI&A: Peeking into January• Effective Teaching in the 21st Century- Jan 4• Cognitive Engagement-Jan 4• Developing Collaborative Groups Using the

Adaptive Schools Framework-Jan 8• Students from Poverty- Jan 11• Voc Strategies (Grades 4-12)- Jan 16• Use of Data: Making Instructional Decisions- Jan 22• PBL- Jan 24• Meeting Needs of Diverse Learners- Jan 30

Just for Visual Art Teachers• Visual Art Educators Professional

Development Day: Teaching Strategies in Studio Art

• Provided bySUNY Cortland

• March 22

Teacher Centers• CNY/Oswego Teacher Center is looking

for volunteers to facilitate teacher conversations

Social Media and ISS

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Race To The Top

(the Regents Reform Agenda)

Math• FIRST address preApril/postApril• CONTNUE to build understanding about

what kids are now expected to be able to do

• BE CAREFUL about rushing to adopt programs, buy series, or take things from engageNY

Math• University of Arizona Common Core Math

Institute– March 1-3 (Friday Night, Saturday, Sunday)– For the Northeast– Doubletree– Bill McCallum-led– Plenary and grade-band sessions– Participants do work and

create shared products

Math• Cost structure

– 250 seats total - cost through Arizona $400– CNY Teacher Center subsidizing 100 seats to

$200– OCM NT paying that remaining $200 for two

“free” seats per NT district– Cortland Teacher Center subsidizing some

additional to $0 for their districts– Cincy Teacher Center subsidizing for Cincy to $0– Translates to approx. 50 seats at $200 for

components, if want to send above the 2

Math• FIRST address preApril/postApril• CONTNUE to build understanding about

what kids are now expected to be able to do

• BE CAREFUL about rushing to adopt programs, buy series, or take things from engageNY

Common CoreMathematics Standards

Transforming Practice Through Team Leadership

Needed ChangeThe practices, more than the content, are what make the Common Core essential for student success:1. Make sense and persevere in solving

problems.2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.3. Construct viable arguments and

critique the reasoning of others.

Needed ChangeThe practices, continued:4. Model with mathematics.5. Use appropriate tools strategically.6. Attend to precision.7. Look for and make use of structure.8. Look for and express regularity in

repeated reasoning.

Needed ChangeThis is what has to change:• Equity: focus on all students• Curriculum: ensure consistent, focused content

focus• Teaching and Learning: monitor changes in

instructional practices• Assessment: Common formative/interim

assessment (DDI process)• Technology: appropriate implementation and

utilization

Leadership TeamForm a long-term leadership team• Administrators (principals, curriculum

leaders, etc.)• Math coaches, instructional specialists,

etc.• Teachers of math

Leadership TeamFour strategies for leadership team:1. Promoting adoption and avoiding

rejection2. Focusing on students brings success3. Building support for collegial relationships4. Maintaining support to increase

implementation

Levels of Adoption

Initiators (3-10%) Earlier Adopters (15%)

Later Adopters (60-82%) Resisters (15%)

Being strategic

Leadership TeamMoves forward with pressure• Builds common knowledge• Communicates vision and plan• Is encouraging and supportive• Monitors progress

Focus on StudentsBig ideas:1. Opportunity to Learn: guaranteed and

viable curriculum– Timelines, scope & sequences, etc.– Materials– All classrooms– Assessed– Note: make sure old materials and ideas are

removed

Focus on StudentsBig ideas:2. Visible Thinking: conceptual fluency

over procedural fluency– Metacognition– Math talk– Constructivism– Note: make sure “fluency” is understood

Focus on StudentsBig ideas:3. Engaging Lessons: cognitive

engagement– Active– High expectations– Writing and explanations– Students doing the work– Note: traditional lesson structure has to be

discarded (HW-lesson-start HW)

Focus on StudentsBig ideas:4. Group-Worthy Problems: students need

to work together on challenging problems– Collaboration– Open-ended– Multiple pathways– Important content– Note: Math Solutions is great with this

Focus on StudentsBig ideas:5. RtI: Data-Driven Process

– common formative/interim assessment– Tier 1– Tier 2– PLC– Note: need to ensure that intervention is

occurring

Common Core InstructionTeachers will need to• Understand the practices• Understand how kids learn mathematics• Be able to collaboratively unit plan• Know and apply effective strategies• Monitor learning (and adjust)

Sustain the ChangeLeadership team will maintain pressure via• Coaching• Ongoing professional development• Appropriate decisions about materials

(carefully piloted by later adopters)• Classroom visits and monitoring• Communication of progress• Expectations for all teachers to work

collaboratively

Standards meet DDI meet Culture

ELA• Vision of what we need to do is clearer

– Balancing Informational & Literary Text – Knowledge in the Disciplines– Staircase of Complexity– Text-based Answers– Writing for Sources– Academic Vocabulary

• Expeditionary Learning here during last week in June?

UNIT PLANNING

AND REVISION

Other Standards• Next Generation Science Standards

– Looks like January draft (major changes)– End of March is a “hard” deadline

Data-Driven Instruction• AM 2.5 hrs

– Balanced Assessment System– Six Shifts of DDI– Assessment Construction 101– Process for getting from SLO to calendar for

common formative/interim assessments– Process for getting first assessment done

• PM 2.5 hrs– Work time (w/ support)– Should be replicable for other interims

Culture• PLCs at Work Summit

– Keynotes streamed– Quick responses to our questions– One breakout streamed, second would be

recorded (both facilitated)– We could run our own breakouts, too– $225+ for two-day event (+ is for facilities,

food, and additional facilitator)– July 17-19, July 24-26, or August 5-7

available

Long-term Planning

How’s it going? Can we help?

Assessment

Regents Scoring• Will meet after BCIC today

3-8 Scoring• Proposals based on data and feedback

from last June BCIC meeting• Same grouping and sites as 2011-12

Personnel• Two trainers provided by districts for each

test• Facilitators 1:6 scorers

– Common communication and process prior to scoring day

– Experienced scorer

More Personnel• Scorers

– ELA 1:25– Math 1:34– Based on past year test construction

• Support– Each district minimum of one support person up to

ratio of 1:250 tests– Timing can vary but will need to scheduled in

advance– Clerical/Administrative

Procedures• Each group determine procedure but have

standardized :– Process for tracking tests– Providing read behinds – Advance communication with trainers and

facilitators– Process for packaging and delivery of tests

Proposed Schedule• Same tests scored on same day across

region---- this is so that as calls are made to hotline the information can be shared across sites

• One test per day—this is so that fit into sites• Recognize that this will not work for South site-

schedule aligns as closely as possible for this group

• Avoids adjacent grade levels scoring on consecutive days

Group Discussion• Each cluster has site coordinator as a

facilitator• Review the summary handout • As a group record ideas• (facilitator will collect at end)

• Prepare to report on themes...

Next BCIC Meeting

December 20, 2012Distance Learning Center