Welcome to the December Administrators RTTT Webex December
Welcome to the December Administrators’ RTTT Webex! December 21, 2012
Outcomes: q. Describe the key details of the Math and ELA assessment transitions (3 -8) q. Explain the Dignity for All Students Act q. Describe the resources that have been added to the engage. NY site
Outcomes: q. Describe resources that have been added to the Principals’ Center site q. Explain updates on the Literacy and Math Task work
Key Details of the Math Assessment (3 -8) Transitions: Focus: Priority standards will be the focus of the assessments--other standards will be deemphasized
Key Details of the Math Assessment (3 -8) Transitions: Coherence: progression of content and concepts
Key Details of the Math Assessment (3 -8) Transitions: Fluency: will not be assessed--it will be assumed that students possess the required fluencies ◦ No calculators in grades 6 and below—possibly 8 and below
Key Details of the Math Assessment Transitions: Deep Understanding: standards will be assessed from multiple perspectives ◦ ensuring and dictating standards in multiple ways while not veering from primary target of measurement in standards ◦ fewer vocabulary questions
Key Details of the Math Assessment Transitions: Application and Dual Intensity: ◦ students will be expected to know grade level math content with fluency ◦ Students will be expected to know math concepts to employ to solve real world math problems
Key Details of the ELA Assessment Transitions: Balancing Informational and Literary Texts: Passages will be authentic and balanced across informational and literary texts Knowledge in the Content Areas: ◦ Assessments will contain knowledge based questions about the informational text ◦ Students will not need outside knowledge to respond ◦ Students will be expected to read informational texts from content domains and respond in writing
Key Details of the ELA Assessment Transitions: Staircase of Complexity: passage selection will be based on appropriate grade level Text-based Responses: questions will require students to gather evidence from text
Key Details of the ELA Assessment Transitions: Academic Vocabulary: ◦ Students will need to be strategic in solving words contextually ◦ Students will be tested indirectly through general comprehension of the text ◦ Fluency in academic vocabulary is expected
Dignity for All Students Act: Effective July 1, 2012 The Dignity Act Legislative Intent: Provide all students in NY public schools an environment free of discrimination and harassment No student shall be subjected to harassment, discrimination, or bullying by employees or students No student shall be subjected to discrimination based on their: Actual or perceived race, color, weight, national origin, ethnic group, religion, religious practice, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or sex
Dignity for All Students Act: Dignity Act impacts the following SAVE requirements: ◦ code of conduct ◦ Uniform Violent Incident Reporting Code of conduct: an age-appropriate version of the policy written in plain-language shall be included in the code of conduct ◦ Codes of conduct are to be posted on the school web site
Dignity for All Students Act: The commissioner shall create a procedure under which material incidents of discrimination and harassment on school grounds or at a school function are reported to the department at least on an annual basis Additional Dignity Act Requirements--Policies and Guidelines to include: ◦ Guidelines relating to the development of nondiscriminatory instructional and counseling methods ◦ Requirement that at least one staff member at every school be thoroughly trained to handle human relations
Dignity for All Students Act: Staff Training Note ◦ Ideally--1 person in each school building to be the point person for Dignity Act related issues ◦ Depending on the size of the district, a staff member must be available to go to every school as needed and be readily accessible to other staff for consultation and advise- by phone or other means of communication ◦ In smaller school districts, schools may share a staff member for multiple schools ◦ There is no requirement to hire a new staff member
Dignity for All Students Act: The Dignity Act and student instruction: ◦ instruction in civility, citizenship and character education ◦ Grades K-12 ◦ Honesty tolerance, personal responsibility, respect of others, observance of laws, courtesy, dignity Dignity Act relates to safety issues in schools: ◦ Expected behavior--code of conduct ◦ Consistent enforcement with appropriate responses to violations ◦ Staff training of all staff ◦ Reporting disruptive activity already required to be included as part of VADIR
Dignity for All Students Act: Resources: ◦ NYSED Dignity Act Web Site: Model Code of Conduct Model Curriculum Materials FAQs (students/parents and faculty/staff) NYSED P-12 News and Notes Articles New York State Center for School Safety
Dignity for All Students Act: ◦ Dignity Act Facebook Page ◦ Dignity Act Public Outreach Forums ◦ Dignity Act Speakers @ Statewide Conferences ◦ Resource Guide: http: //regions. adl. org/newyork/pdfs/npfh-ny-resource-guide. pdf ◦ http: //scdn. wsboces. org/
Dignity for All Students Act: Contact information: NYS Education Department ◦ DASA@mail. nysed. gov NYS Center for School Safety ◦ 518 -486 -6090 scss@ulsterboces. org 845 -255 -8989
engage. NY. org Resources:
Principals’ Center:
Principals’ Center: Username: principals Password: center
Principals’ Center: Username: principals Password: center
Principals’ Center:
Math Task Work:
Literacy Task Work: Day 4 Grades 6 -12 Sessions scheduled for choice of February 13 th or 16 th.
Albany Common Core Updates English Language Arts Shifts 1 and 2 ◦ Balancing informational and literary text ◦ Knowledge in the disciplines Text Pairs ◦ Literary with informational text ◦ Evidence based questioning
Albany Common Core Updates Math
Network Team Institute Materials: Conference Resources Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics by Richard Askey National Mathematics Advisory Panel Report Leadership for Excellence in Mathematics – Principal’s Role in Math Instruction Edu. Tron Resources on Mathematics Education for NYSED Network Teams Visual Map of the Content Standards in Mathematics Supporting Implementation of the Common Core Standards for Mathematics
Upcoming Dates: January 10, 31 and February 7 Lead Evaluator Training—Part 2 @ UE January 13 th, 23 rd k-5 Math Task Work (Day 2) January 17, 18, 19 Network Team Training—Lead Evaluator January 30 9 -12 Math Task Work (Day 2) February 6 th, 10 th k-5 Literacy Task Work (Day 4) February 13 th, 16 th 6 -12 Literacy Task Work (Day 4)
Thank You!
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