Zo om E NWESD Assessment d Directors Meeting

Zo om E NWESD Assessment d Directors’ Meeting March 20, 2020 itio n!

Today’s Agenda • Welcome and Check-In • Implementing State Test Cancellation • High School Seniors and Graduation • Program Evaluation with Dr. Pete Bylsma • Q&A

Check-In Supt. Reykdal’s five priorities, considering the health & safety of staff and communities: 1. Ensure provision of school meals (breakfast and lunch) to students who need them. 2. Develop plans to be a childcare provider of last resort in response to the Governor’s call. 3. Provide graduating seniors the content they need to meet their graduation requirements and to support their post-secondary transition. 4. Offer learning opportunities for students and continued professional learning. 5. Continue payroll for all employees as you develop meaningful work and PD plans.

Implementing State Test Cancellation As of March 13, state assessments administered for state and federal accountability are canceled statewide for the remainder of the 2020 school year. These include: • SBA ELA and Math for grades 3– 8 and 10 • WCAS for grades 5, 8, and 11 • WA-AIM ELA and Math for grades 3– 8 and 10 • WA-AIM Science for grades 5, 8, and 11 • ELPA 21 Annual and WIDA Alternate ACCESS for English Learners • Wa. KIDS for Transitional Kindergarten

Washington Assessment Weekly, March 18 Smarter Balanced test administration • The online test administration platform for Smarter Balanced assessments will be open Monday, April 27 for: • high school students in the classes of 2020, 2019, or earlier who have not yet met the pathway graduation requirement and who would like to use a summative assessment to achieve that pathway requirement • high school students wanting to take the Smarter Balanced ELA summative test to earn the Seal of Biliteracy • any students wanting to use the optional interim assessments

Washington Assessment Weekly, March 18 ELPA 21 test administration • Submit all online tests (both partial and completed). Return all used and unused accommodated paper test material to Measurement Incorporated (MI) as soon as possible. WIDA test administration • The WIDA Alternate ACCESS administration window will not be extended. Return all used and unused test material to Data Recognition Corporation (DRC) as soon as possible.

Washington Assessment Weekly, March 18 WA-AIM test administration • The WA-AIM test window will not be extended. If you have already performed some or all of the WA-AIM tasks with students, please submit completed or partially completed tests into DRC’s platform. Wa. KIDS • The kindergarten assessment component of Wa. KIDS has been suspended. While there is no expectation to complete student observations, teachers can still save documentation and finalize the winter checkpoint by March 31, if they choose.

Washington Assessment Weekly, March 18 WCAS test administration • The WCAS will not be available for administration this spring. OSPI-Developed Classroom-based Assessments • We are suspending the verification reports required for the Arts, Health and Physical Education, Social Studies, and for Technology. Scores from tests completed and submitted • OSPI will provide student-level results for tests that were submitted, including ELPA 21, WIDA, WA-AIM, and Smarter Balanced. The timeline for score availability has not yet been determined.

What’s Known About Other Assessments? Vendor Website Information • AP has updated their test administration information today: • https: //apcentral. collegeboard. org/about-ap/news-changes/coronavirus-update • Providing free remote learning resources • Developing new at-home testing option • SAT cancelled March and May administrations • ACT moved the April 4 test to June 13 What more do we know?

Today’s Agenda • Welcome and Check-In • Implementing State Test Cancellation • High School Seniors and Graduation • Program Evaluation with Dr. Pete Bylsma • Q&A

Graduation Pathways Database in EDS • Pathways Database: 2020 and Beyond View Graduation Pathways (state assessments, Bridge to College, Dual Credit, ACT, SAT, AP, IB, Cambridge, CTE, and ASVAB) accessed by students. • Pathways: 2020 and Beyond View detailed information (e. g. scores, subject, pathway, date) of student progress toward completing each possible Graduation Pathway. • Graduation Database (CAA/CIA): 2019 and Prior Data for currently enrolled students who have grad requirement years of 2019 and prior, as well as whether students with IEPs in the classes of ‘ 20 and ‘ 21 using the CIA as their Graduation Pathways have earned their CAA or CIA. • Graduation Alternatives: 2019 and Prior List of grad alternatives applied toward graduation requirements for currently enrolled students who have grad req years of 2019 and prior, and whether students with IEPs in the classes of ‘ 20 and ‘ 21 using CIA as their Graduation Pathways earned a CAA or CIA.

Graduation Pathways Database in EDS • Additional pathways data regarding course-taking and dual credit testing information is expected to be available no later than April 10. • Additional functionality in the Graduation Alternatives application to collect CTE Course Sequences is being postponed for at least one week to ensure all functionality and data collection needs are met before asking districts to begin using it. • March 16 – 27, likely that none of the data team will be at their desk to answer their phone, but we OSPI will continue to provide support to districts. Email assessmentanalysts@k 12. wa. us or to leave a voicemail on the Assessment Analysts’ hotline 360 -725 -6109.

Engrossed House Bill 2965 NEW SECTION. Sec. 10. (1) (a) … state board of education may administer an emergency waiver program to grant LEAs flexibility so that students in the graduating class of 2020 or earlier, who were on track to graduate before February 29, 2020, are not negatively impacted by measures taken by the LEA in response to COVID 19.

Engrossed House Bill 2965 NEW SECTION. Sec. 10. (1) (b) … the state board of education may adopt rules to allow: • School districts to apply to the state board of education for a waiver of high school graduation requirements for students in the graduating class of 2020 or earlier who cannot meet the statewide minimum credit and subject area graduation requirements due to school closures related to the novel coronavirus • The state board of education may approve waivers that meet criteria including demonstration of a good faith effort to address core course requirements and credit deficiencies through other mechanisms

Supt. Reykdal’s Five Priorities Supt. Reykdal’s five priorities, considering the health & safety of staff and communities: 1. Ensure provision of school meals (breakfast and lunch) to students who need them. 2. Develop plans to be a childcare provider of last resort in response to the Governor’s call. 3. Provide graduating seniors the content they need to meet their graduation requirements and to support their post-secondary transition. This will likely involve certificated employees and paraeducators working from home making direct contact with seniors by phone, email, or video technology. Additional guidance will be provided by March 23. 4. Offer learning opportunities for students and continued professional learning. 5. Continue payroll for all employees as you develop meaningful work and PD plans.

Strategies for Seniors? While we wait for SBE rulemaking and OSPI direction on EHB 2965: • Collect graduation requirement credit status as of February 29. • Consider Pass/Fail grades for second semester. • Consider online learning with existing providers (such as the virtual academies) or newly adapted content in other platforms, such as Edmentum, Edgenuity, and Moodle.

Today’s Agenda • Welcome and Check-In • Implementing State Test Cancellation • High School Seniors and Graduation • Program Evaluation with Dr. Pete Bylsma • Q&A

Today’s Agenda • Welcome and Check-In • Implementing State Test Cancellation • High School Seniors and Graduation • Program Evaluation with Dr. Pete Bylsma • Questions & Answers

Thank You! • We will make the recording of this meeting available by email link and on the Assessment Directors Google Drive. • Our next scheduled meeting is June 10, 9: 00 – 11: 30 am • Final thoughts?