Unbridled Learning: What Everyone Should Know about P-20 as it Connects to 21st Century Skills
Eve Proffitt, Ed.D.Co-Director, Kentucky P20 Innovation Lab
University of Kentucky
• Unbridled Learning?• 21st Century Skills?• Senate Bill 1 2009?• CHETL?• CIITS?• KCAS/KCASS?• Assessment of/for Learning?• PGES/Edivation?
What Do You Know?
• Introduced and passed 2009• Directed revamping of Kentucky’s assessment and
accountability system• Direct Kentucky postsecondary institutions to plan
and implement a process to develop core academic content standards for reading and mathematics for introductory courses.
Senate Bill 1: KRS 164.302http://education.ky.gov/comm/UL/Pages/default.aspx
• Section 2– Revise state assessment system to be
implemented 2011-12– Variety of assessments including accelerated
learning, criterion-referenced test, end of course examinations, formative assessments, interim assessments, national norm-referenced test
Senate Bill 1 Provisions
– Academic standards• Revision of academic content standards in all
areas• Must consider national standards• Aligned with entry level college course
requirements• Included in teacher preparation programs so
teachers will know how to use them
Section 2
• Writing portfolios required as instructional tools, but not included in accountability system
• No testing in arts & humanities and practical living/career studies
• Assessment consist of annual student assessments and state and local program reviews and audits in writing, practical living/career studies and arts & humanities
• Formative and summative
Section 2 :Assessment
• Diagnostic information use• National comparisons• Longitudinal student data• Use of data by teachers• Use for school accountability• Compliance with NCLB Act
Purposes of Assessment
• Inappropriate Test Preparation has sanctions• May purchase commercial interim
assessments or develop local tests• Accelerated learning for student who indicates
skill deficiency or strength• Alignment of core content on all levels• Individual report to parents
Section 2 Assessment
• Deletes CATS accountability• Requires KBE to determine how new
assessment (KPREP) will classify schools• Revise Accountability
– Must use program review results– Use students’ academic performance– Use school improvement results– Other factors
Section 4
• Professional development programs– Made available to teachers based on their needs– Include strategies to reduce the achievement gaps
among various groups of students – Include strategies to
• Provide continuous progress• Curriculum content and methods of instruction for each content
area including differentiated instruction• School-based decision making• Assessment literacy• Integration of performance based student assessment into daily
classroom instruction
Section 8
• To provide:– Non graded primary programs– Research based instructional practices– Instructional uses of technology– Curriculum design to serve needs of students with diverse
learning styles and skills of students of diverse cultures– Instruction in reading including—phonics, phonemic
awareness, comprehension, fluency and vocabulary– Educational leadership– Strategies to incorporate character education throughout
the curriculum
Section 8 continued
• Requires each postsecondary institution to plan and implement a process to develop core academic content standards for reading and math for introductory courses in public postsecondary education institutions.
Section 15
• Requires EPSB and KDE to improve teachers’ ability to teach writing
• Review of teacher preparation requirements • Review of PD and training for school
administrators
Section 17
Unbridled Learning
• Ky Dept of Education Pageshttp://education.ky.gov/Pages/default.aspx – What students should learn– What will be tested– How subjects will be tested– When tests are given– What should comprise the public school
accountability system– College Career Readiness (CCR)
• Learning Networks• Documents
– Attributes of standards based unit of study– Combined curriculum document– Core Content for Assessment– EPAS connected to College Readiness Standards– ELA deconstructed Standards– Kentucky Core Academic Standards– Kentucky Model Curriculum Framework– Math Deconstructed Standards – NGSS Science Standards
Curriculum Standardshttp://education.ky.gov/curriculum/docs/Pages/default.aspx
Standards
• KCAS: http://education.ky.gov/curriculum/docs/Documents/KCAS%20-%20June%202013.pdf
• ELA Standards: http://education.ky.gov/curriculum/docs/Pages/ELA-Deconstructed-Standards.aspx
• CCR: http://education.ky.gov/educational/CCR/Pages/default.aspx
Standards Cont’d
• Mathematics: http://education.ky.gov/curriculum/docs/Pages/Mathematics-Deconstructed-Standards.aspx
• Curriculum Documents http://education.ky.gov/curriculum/docs/Pages/default.aspx
Meet Each Child’s Needs
• Differentiation: http://education.ky.gov/educational/diff/Pages/default.aspx
• Culturally Responsive Instruction: http://education.ky.gov/educational/diff/Pages/CulturallyResponsiveInstruction.aspx
• ESS Targeted Interventions: http://education.ky.gov/educational/int/Pages/default.aspx
• http://education.ky.gov/curriculum/docs/Pages/Characteristics-of-Highly-Effective-Teaching-and-Learning-(CHETL).aspx
• Learning Climate• Classroom Assessment and Reflection• Instructional Rigor and Student Engagement• Instructional Relevance• Knowledge of Content
Characteristics of Highly Effective Teaching and Learning
• Ky RtI: http://education.ky.gov/educational/int/ksi/Pages/default.aspx
• Districts of Innovation: http://education.ky.gov/school/innov/Pages/Districts-of-Innovation.aspx
• Technology: http://education.ky.gov/districts/tech/Pages/default.aspx
• Tool for pulling standards, instructional materials, lesson plans, assessments, data, and PD into integrated online resource
• One Stop Shop• Includes KCAS (all content areas)• ACT Quality Core• ISTE National Edu Technology Standards• AASL Library Media Standards
Continuous Instructional Improvement Technology System (CIITS)
• Links standards to instructional materials– KET Encyclomedia: Discovery Education– SAS Curriculum Pathways– Thinkfinity
• Common Core 360/Edivation (subscription) – Resources and PD on CCS
• Comprehensive student information and assessment data– reports
CIITS http://education.ky.gov/curriculum/ciits/Pages/default.aspx
• Achievement• Gap• Growth• College Readiness• Graduation Rate• EOC: end of course
– U.S. History– Algebra II– English II– Biology
Assessment Termshttp://education.ky.gov/AA/Pages/default.aspx
• School Report Cards • No Child Left Behind• Assessment Reports• Sample Test Items
Accountability Terms
• Assessment: http://education.ky.gov/AA/Pages/default.aspx
• School Report Cards: http://education.ky.gov/AA/distsupp/Pages/SRC.aspx
• No Child Left Behind: http://www2.ed.gov/policy/elsec/guid/states/index.html
Assessment
• State Assessments: http://education.ky.gov/AA/Assessments/Pages/default.aspx
• Assessment Reports: http://education.ky.gov/AA/Reports/Pages/default.aspx
• Sample Test Items: http://education.ky.gov/AA/items/Pages/default.aspx
Teacher Professional Growth
• PGES: http://education.ky.gov/teachers/PGES/Pages/PGES.aspx
• TPGES: http://education.ky.gov/teachers/PGES/TPGES/Pages/default.aspx
• Kentucky Framework for Teaching: http://education.ky.gov/teachers/PGES/TPGES/Pages/Kentucky-Framework-for-Teaching.aspx
Resources
• EQuIP: http://www.achieve.org/EQuIP • Kentucky Teacher Newsletter:
http://www.kentuckyteacher.org/ • Edivation
PD360 http://www.schoolimprovement.com/products-2/edivation/
• Collaboration• Communication• Creativity and Innovation• Critical thinking and Problem Solving• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRxAuq
BfRNQ 5 minute youtube
• http://www.p21.org/overview/skills-framework web site
21st Century Skills
The 6 C’s
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NXGL FOCUS
Today’s Students Learn and Communicate Differently
What Has Really Changed?
Early 20th Century Classroom
Early 21st Century Classroom
If we teach today's students as we
taught yesterday's, we rob them of
tomorrow.
John Dewey
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