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Implementing Standards
Bob CornacchioliDERO Technical Services
CEO
Agenda/Participants will be engaged in:• Understanding Common Language• Constraints and “Givens” in PowerSchool• Best Practices- Standards are Coming!• Importing Standards using Excel• Conversion Scales• Looking at PowerTeacher Gradebook• Report Card options
www.derotechnical.com for more resources
CEO - DERO Technical Services
Contractor - PowerDataSolutions
- ANCGroup
Trainer - Pearson Systems
Evangelist/Process Assistant- Level Data
Marketing - ParkBench Software
Director of Technology and Media Services – Shrewsbury Public Schools (16 yrs)PowerSchool Administrator ( 6 yrs)
Bob Cornacchioli
CURRICULUM/ADMIN & TECHNICAL
Collaborate and learn the constraints
DRAW A LINE IN THE SAND
Read anything by Ken O’Connor aka The Grade Doctor
Far more important than the keystroke of a grade is how the district has trained teachers in the proper techniques in determining that grade. What Ken and others are saying about student achievement is mission critical. PowerTeacher has been designed with these principles.
Learning Conversations: The Culture of Grading
Have you had these chats yet?
Same Curriculum
Across all classrooms HOPE
ZERO’s
MISSING WORK
EXTRA CREDITTENDENCY
MAKE UP WORK
Evidence
Same Grading Practices
Across all classrooms??
What does a 4 or a C really mean?• With teachers at your Grade Level• With teachers at your School• With teachers in the District• What does it mean for next placement?
Setting Expectations & Emphasize Consistency
Everyone on the Same Page
Homebound Assessment• Avoid Confusion- Adjust Rubrics and
assessments
Sending Home Letter Grades and Percentages will confuse Parents
and Students
S T A N D A R D SCHEDULE
C O U R S S
S C L E S
IDENTIFIER
F I N A L G R A D E E N T R Y GRADEBOOK
STANDARDS
65 Character Limit
STANDARDS • Create the standards collaboratively- Excel• Teacher Involvement = Ownership• Less is more- 65 character limit• Report Card vs. Curriculum Guide• Core Content vs. Specials• Essential Skills, Effort or Habits of Mind• Assessment Per Term• Changes and Real Estate – Text vs. #• Conversion Scales- Drop Downs for Teachers
STANDARDS TIMELINE (considerations)
• District initiative or single school pilot???– Pilots can pose some issues– Invite participation from non pilot schools
• 6+ Months in advance- identify standards• Decide your scale ( avoid traditional grading- A )
• Do all teachers have rosters in PS?• Set Expectations for Comment Writing• Discuss Assignments vs Standards Assessment• Communicate with all stakeholders
STANDARDS by TERM
Final Grade Entry For Teachers
Changing Allow Assignments is
NOT Recommended… Union Issue!
Associated to a unique number
65601First two digits = Content AreaMiddle digit = School IDLast two digits = Grade Level
Highlands = 0Smith = 1Riverside = 2Thorpe = 3Great Oak =4
65000, 65001, 65002, 65003, 65004, 6500565100, 65101, 65102, 65103, 65104, 6510565200, 65201, 65202, 65203, 65204, 6520565300, 65301, 65302, 65303, 65304, 6530565400, 65401, 65402, 65403, 65404, 65405
Can be used for
AM/PM K etc
Decisions: All elementary courses same or different #
Importing Standards via ExcelWhat does Allowassignment do?
TRUE means- Allow Teacher Choice from Pull Down!
Hey Bob, All these standards report on the same course number?
Importing Standards via ExcelWhat does Includecomment do?
FALSE means- No Comment for that standard allowed!
Conversion Scales
Habits of Mind/Effort
Proficiency LevelsGrades 1-8 / MCAS
Proficiency LevelsFor K
Importing Standards via ExcelWhere do I get these Conversionscale Numbers?
Requires Internal Pearson Number in this Excel Spreadsheet!
Next Steps• Communication with:
– Teachers - expectations for comments– Parents – how to interpret 4,3,2,1/your scale(s)– Specialists going to grade? Schedule?
• Create Standards– # of standards per content area per term– Altering Rubrics / Common Assessments
• Create the Conversion Scales• Create Sample Report Cards before EOY
Conversion Scale #?
• Gen Table (6)
• Search for “scale”
Access: PowerTeacher Gradebook
• Will the Art, PE, Music, Media, Computer, Band, Chorus… teacher be grading students?
• If YES – they must have rosters in PS
Web Gradebook Record Keeping
Tying Assignments to Standards
Grade Value of Conversions Scales
When teachers assess a standard more than once associated to multiple assignments, PTG averages these scores. Grade Value can’t be ZERO as seen earlier in this presentation.
Grade Value of Conversions ScalesDepending upon which standard based educator your curriculum folks have read, the concept of AVERAGE isn’t part of the standards movement.
YET the Gradebook has to apply some sort equation in order to convert scores to these Grade Labels 4,3,2,1.
Feedback from districts to Pearson has resulted in a new version (2.3) of PowerTeacher with the installation of PS 7. Averaging of standards scores assigned to multiple assignments is now becoming clearer.
PowerTeacher Gradebook is still evolving!!!!
Controlling Web Gradebook
If defined as PT Admin** - School Usage – Site Specific!!
Calculations
Using PT Admin- your district will have to set policy on grading standards. The Gradebook will have to be set per school to look: • Default setting for final grades• Allow teacher modifications OR NOT• Calculations for Most Recent Scores
Decisions Decisions
Training Teachers to Grade• Final Grade Entry** (RW will not work)
• Specialists vs. HR teachers • 5 mins. with a PPT presentation• Google PowerTeacher Gradebook- lots of
resources• Web Gradebook – A bit more time
( JING Movies/Atomic Learning/Mastery in Minutes/Google?)
• Comments- Comments- Comments
“Straight quotes” with “Smart quotes”
If teachers use Word for pasting into the gradebook, special characters (like “quotation marks”, apostrophes’ and - dashes) can end up printing incorrectly on the final report card.
Word – Tools- Auto Correct- AutoFormat as you Type and REMOVE the √ from Straight quotes with smart Quotes
This only works if you change this setting BEFORE you typed them in- SORRY!
Have you thought about Report Cards?
• Parent Portal – access to grades – list form• NOT DYNAMIC – all must be custom made• Object Reports- Visual PST – Report Works• Summative• Multi-page requires duplex printers
• http://schools.shrewsbury-ma.gov/egov/docs/1251933966124. htm• http://www.derotechnical.com/REPORTCARDS/ REPORTCARDS.html
Bob CornacchioliDERO Technical [email protected]://www.derotechnical.com
PowerTeacher Gradebook for StandardsPPTX available on DERO website
or Session # 13
Bob CornacchioliDERO Technical [email protected]://www.derotechnical.com
Q & A