The “Top 10 Things” You Need to Know About Ohio’s Race to the Top Strategy

Michael L. Sawyers

Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction

1. Systemic Reform, Not Tinkering!

Better standards. Better teaching. Better schools.

Data-driven results. That's what we will reward with

our Race to the Top Fund.~President Barack Obama, July 24, 2009

Systemic Reform for All Students

StatewideImplementation

Race to the Top ►Initiatives align with Ohio’s education reforms. ►Will occur in all schools for Ohio’s 1.86 million students.►Opportunity!

2. Importance of Building Cultural Competency

Race to the Top Regional Coordinators

And 16 RttT Regional Specialists!

3. Ohio’s RttT Year One Bottom Line $$$$

4. Reaching for Ohio’s Five Measureable Goals

Expected Student OutcomesGOAL: Ohio will increase the state’s on-time graduation rate by 0.5% each year of Race to the Top.

When Ohio achieves our goal of increasing the state’s on-time graduation rate by 0.5% each year of Race to the Top, by 2014 our graduation rate will be approximately 79.6% and we will graduate an additional 2,000 students.

*Actual 2010 rate, based on 4 year longitudinal rate.

78.0%

79.6%

2010ActualData

2014 Goal

By 2014, Ohio will graduate an additional

2,000 students.

Statewide Graduation Rates, 2010*-2014

Expected Student OutcomesGOAL: Ohio will reduce graduation rate gaps by 50% by 2014. Economic Disadvantage Graduation Gap: When Ohio achieves our goal of reducing graduation gaps by 50% by 2014, the graduation gap between economically disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged students will be reduced to 11.1 percentage points, resulting in over 9,000 additional economically disadvantaged students graduating on-time in 2014.

*Actual 2010 graduation gap, based on 4 year longitudinal rate.

22.2%

11.1%

2010 Actual Data 2014 Goal

By 2014, Ohio will graduate over 9,000 more economically

disadvantaged students.

Disadvantage Graduation Gap, 2010*and 2014

Expected Student OutcomesGOAL: Ohio will reduce graduation rate gaps by 50% by 2014. Non-white Graduation Gap: When Ohio achieves our goal of reducing graduation gaps by 50% by 2014, the graduation gap between non-white and white students will be reduced to 12.3 percentage points, resulting in over 4,000 additional non-white student graduating on-time in 2014.

*Actual 2010 nonwhite graduation gap, based on 4 year longitudinal rate.

24.6%

12.3%

2010 Actual Data 2014 Goal

Non-white Graduation Gap, 2010*and 2014

By 2014, Ohio will graduate over 4,000

more nonwhite students.

Expected Student OutcomesGOAL: Reduce performance gaps by 50%.

Economic Disadvantage Assessment Gap

*2010 and 2011 gaps based on actual test data.

20.8% 19.6%

10.4%

2010 2011 2014 Goal

Average Reading Gap

25.0% 23.6%

12.5%

2010 2011 2014 Goal

Average Math Gap

By 2014, Ohio will see over 40,000 more reading-proficient

disadvantaged students and over

50,000 more math-proficient

disadvantaged

Average Reading and Math Disadvantaged Gaps, 2010*, 2011* and 2014

Expected Student OutcomesGOAL: Reduce performance gaps by 50%.

Non-white Assessment Gap

*2010 and 2011 gaps based on actual test data.

24.6% 22.5%

12.3%

2010 2011 2014 Goal

Average Math Gap

19.7%17.4%

9.9%

2010 2011 2014 Goal

Average Reading Gap

By 2014, Ohio will see over 22,000 more reading-proficient

nonwhite students and over 28,000 more math-proficient

nonwhite students across 7 grades.

Expected Student OutcomesGOAL: Reduce the gap between Ohio and the best-performing states in the nation by 50%

NAEP Reading Assessments, Gap between Ohio and Highest Achieving State, Actual 2009 Data and 2014 Goals

NAEP Math Assessments, Gap between Ohio and Highest Achieving State, Actual 2009 Data and 2014 Goals

Expected Student OutcomesGOAL: More than double college enrollment for 18 and 19 year olds

To remain competitively strong, Ohio must increase the number of students who graduate from college. Meeting this goal will result in 4,700 more students a year enrolled in college by 2014.

5. Samples of Ohio’s Year One Achievements

A Sample of 2011 SEA Successes:• Conducted 26 face-to-face regional meetings serving over 5,000 participants representing 54% of RttT LEAs in round one of the 2011 meetings and 90% off RttT LEAs in round two.•Provided state-sponsored PD sessions on the standards to 13,000 educators.•Provided students in PLAs with over 10,000 hours of extended learning time activities.• Held an RttT Innovation Symposium that was attended by 490 RttT LEAs.

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A Sample of Ohio’s LEAs YEAR 1 Successes• LEAs in Ashtabula, Columbiana, Mahoning and Trumbull counties are working on the Ohio Principal Evaluation Model.• New Bremen Local Schools has been focusing on Substantial Formative Assessment work on Learning Targets and Quality Assessments.• North Union Local is engaging large numbers of teachers on teacher committees to drive transformation at the classroom level.

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A Sample of Ohio’s LEAs YEAR 1 Successes

• Dayton Public Schools will be rolling out a focused professional development summer program to train and update instructional staff.• Toledo School District is using their RttT funds to improve their “Toledo Plan” – a teacher peer review program.• Liberty Union-Thurston Local is redesigning teacher evaluation as a result of their work on RttT’s Great Teachers and Great Leaders Application Area.

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Quotes after a year of RttT• “1 Down, 3 to Grow!” – Pymatuning Valley• “Race to the Top has refocused our vision of student improvement.” – Youthbuild Columbus Community• “RttT has allowed schools to venture into the area of performance based incentives and it appears to be promising. – Focus Learning Academy of Southeastern Columbus• “RttT has created momentum toward change, and solidified our district’s purpose.” – Worthington City Schools

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6. No Such Thing as Too Much Communication

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7. Creating Standards & Assessments to Measure

Student Progress and Performance

Academic Content Standards

Model Curricula:

March 2011

Aligned System of

Assessments: 2014

Revised Academic Content

Standards: June 2010

One Piece of an Integrated Whole

What How

How Well

How do we get there?