1. Jennifer EvansAssistant Director ELASt. Clair County RESAEvans.jennifer@sccresa.orghttp://www.protopage.com/evans.jennifer#Untitled/Home

2. AgendaAnchorPapersOverviewGetting toknow youranchor setAssessmentFidelityWriteWellPre and PostAssessmentsHow do youadminister theassessment?DetermineProtocolScoringFidelityHow do youscore theassessment?ScoringProtocolPractice 3. Assigning writingis easy. Teachingwriting is reallyhard.We need to teach ourstudents to read likewriters and write likereaders.Kelly Gallagher, Author and Teacherhttp://www.kellygallagher.org/index.html 4. What is the WriteWell Curriculum?It is a carefully sequenced, coherent K-12 writing curriculumthat follows a Writing Workshop format designed to:Continually improvemeet the needs of all studentsincrease writing proficiency at every gradeuse effective, researched based instructional practices 5. Navigating the Website WriteWell http://www.sccresa.org/toolsforschools/curriculumtools/writewell/ Select logo Enter school log in and password:Log in:Password: 6. www.sccresa.org 7. http://sccresa.org/downloads/writewell_gr3/pre_and_post_assessment_2_20130904_090119_2.pdf 8. Anchor Papers 9. 5th Grade Score 4 Sample 1 10. Discuss 3rd Grade Example Handout 11. WriteWell Pre and PostAssessments:PerformanceTasksModeled afterSmarter BalancePerformanceTasks2-3 daysScored withInformational/ExplanatoryRubricMultiple Texts 12. Assessment Fidelity 13. There is now conclusive, compellingresearch stating that acting as aProfessional Learning Community(PLC) is the most powerful andeffective process to systemically changeschool culture and improve studentlearning.- Sharon Kramer, PLC Conference:Connecting the Dots: From ELA Standards to FormativeAssessment to Interventions and Extensions, 2014 14. The Big Ideas of a PLCWe accept learning as the fundamental purpose of ourschool and therefore are willing to examine all practices andtheir impact on learning.We are committed to working together to achieve ourcollective purpose. We cultivate a collaborative culturethrough the development of high-performing teams.We assess our effectiveness on the basis of results ratherthan intentions. We seek relevant data and information anduse that information to promote continuous improvement. 15. Selection of Articles / VideosGet with yourgrade levelWatch all of thevideosRead all of thearticlesDecide as a groupwhatvideos/articlesyou will use forthe pre-test andthe post-test 16. Develop Answer Key for VideosWork with your grade level team to determine what are key points you want your studentsto identify in the videos.Work together to fill in the Note-Taking Matrix for the Videos so every teacher in the gradelevel is looking for the same key information.Determine protocol for how you will instruct this portion of the assessment (i.e. Will yougive examples or will it be all student generated? Are you explicitly modeling how to fill inthe matrix? Are you watching videos whole class or are students watching themindependently at their own pace? )Be sure to record assessment decisions made on the WriteWell Scoring Clinic Notes pageto ensure assessment fidelity when giving the assessment. 17. Develop Answer Key for ArticlesWork with your grade level team to determine what are key points you want your students to identify inthe articles.Work together to fill in the Note-Taking Matrix for the Articles so every teacher in the grade level islooking for the same key information.Determine if the grade level will write and score the 3 focus questions optional part of the assessment.Determine protocol for how you will instruct this portion of the assessment (i.e. Will you give examplesor will it be all student generated? Are you explicitly modeling how to fill in the matrix? Are you readingarticles whole class or are students reading them independently at their own pace? )Be sure to record assessment decisions made on the WriteWell Scoring Clinic Notes page to ensureassessment fidelity when giving the assessment. 18. Scoring Fidelity 19. Key PointsLooking at the Informational/ExplanatoryRubric, highlight key points for a 4 scoreHighlight differences for a 3 scoreHighlight differences for a 2 scoreHighlight differences for a 1 scoreDetermine protocol for a 0 score 20. Scoring ProtocolLook at the anchorset of papers foryour grade levelDiscuss with yourteam key pointsDetermine aprotocol for howyour team will scorepapers with fidelity 21. Scoring PracticeWorking with yourgrade level, beginscoring practicestudent papers.Each paper should bescored by at least 2teachers.Discrepant scoresneed to be discussedand protocoldetermined 22. Questions?